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I haven't posted in a long while. ive had long-standing back problems but things came to a head in the spring with an emergency procedure to keep me out of a wheelchair. Good news: as far as I can tell I'm completely unimpaired, although things won't have fully healed for a while yet. Bad...

There's a combi machine on eBay made by ESY and the vendor says he thinks it's licensed by SCM. Anybody know ESY? Particularly concerned whether quality can be regarded as same as SCM. Thanks! Josh

New workshop is currently under construction, and I have now spent some months with wet towel round my head trying to absorb the mass of information on dust collection on Bill Pentz's site. My conclusion is that I would like to source a Pentz cyclone, install it in an enclosure outside...

Hi, I'd like to have a height-adjustable workbench, thinking of building one round a scissor lift, but it's no good if the height-adjustment feature comes at the expense of no longer being rock steady. At what sort of price point for a scissor-lift do you get something rock-steady? You see...

I am in hospital recovering from op to have lumbar spine fused L2-S1 (two stage op, first stage yesterday). No workshop for 3-6m, longer still until heavy stuff. So have live vicariously through forum. Turns out I prefer to be doing the cutting and chiselling rather than having it done to me.

Hi, I have a Startrite SD310 planer thicknesser that I bought about a year ago. It was clear from early on that while the planing was OK the thicknessing table was out of true. I was busy with other stuff and have only just now got round to a close examination ... and I can't quite make sense...

This is actually something I did a few months ago (birthday present for my wife). It's a scrabble table---as long as you're enough of a hard core scrabble nut to be happy with the power squares being colour-coded (pink, red, lt blue, dk blue). It's made from walnut solids: I cut up a slab and...

A friend suggested I make this pointless object ... so I did.

I have a Wadkin AGS10 table saw and am trying to improve the accuracy and consistency of the results ... while remaining intact. I’ve upgraded the fence to the Incra TSLS and added the Jessem clear cut TS stock guide rollers and also improved my infeed and outfeed setups, and I’m seeing the...

Having previously been doing cabinetry using hand tools and power tools only, last year I bought some workshop machinery, and in two cases I bought older machines on ebay, sold in working order, namely a Wadkins AGS10 table saw (to be used mostly as a ripsaw) and a Startrite SD310...