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This handy wee mask will sort ALL of my dust issues. Not a chance of any getting to my lungs next time I am using power tools. Just need to get it and myself out of the Covid ward first.🤣

About 15 years ago, I paid for a collection of woodworking plans. Got a CD rom sent and it was full of PDF’s etc that someone had downloaded from the internet. I lost that disk maybe 14 years and 364 days ago as I put it in a safe place 🤨 I moved house 2 times since then and never came across...

My good lady walked into my garage today and straight away said “Is that a new tool” Yes it was and I was caught red handed with it out on display, I knew this day would come so I just said “yes, had it over a month now” HAD I stopped at that point all would have been well but no, I had to...

Question. I have a handful of tape measures, rulers etc that I use, I can swap between two or three of them during a project depending on my memory (where did I put that???) and the space that I am measuring in. was setting up a cut on my table saw sledge yesterday and used an old metal ruler...

Sorry, bit of a rant at myself. So I needed some cheap chairs for the garden, spent a while searching google and came across a lot of “2x4 make great cheap chairs/benches) Thought great, 2x4 are cheap cough, and jumped in with both feet, only got a small car so ordered it from Wickes, Wood...

Just spent a few hours with hand plane fettling my latest project. Amazed on the amount of shavings you can produce. Well, I was about to call it a night so got my Lidl shop vac out, set it up and switched it on then watched in horror as I blew all the shavings towards the other side of the...

So, today is the day that Lidl started to sell their electric Brad nailer (I don’t have the room or authorisation for a compressor) so at 8:15 am I was there along with a number of other bargain hunters. Picked up the Brad nailer and some drill bits and bobs. Got home and texted “she who must be...

Just swapped the blade from my evolution mitre saw for a blade more suited to wood working. Guess this is why the cuts haven’t been great for a while.

Hello, just wondering, how long you give from buying the wood (from B&Q/Wickes/Homebase) and stacking it in your working area, till you start chopping and using? I personally don’t have space to store full lengths but I keep reading that you should let wood settle in your workspace for anything...

Hello, just wondering what’s you view on using treated lumber for wood projects, I’m currently pricing up some 2x4s to make a solid workbench for my garage and wickes have their treated CLS 2x4 on clearance, save £1.56 per 3000mm length. I’m on a tight budget so makes sense but just wanted to...