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Does anybody know what type of wood would be suitable for the slats on this table. 25mm x 5mm, I hve a really good hard wood supplier (Mac Timbers in benifield northants) if its needs a hardwood, As a practice Ill make the first one out of pine to see how it goes thanks alan wetherall

I have been making some golf ball in a cage (Youtube ) for presents out of softwood and they work out quite nicely. I want to make them out of hardwork and have tried Oak and Ash but they just break. Which is the most grain flexible hardwood that i can buy in the UK Many thanks

. I have just finished my first proper woodworking project an American Adirondack chair from www.kingsfinewoodworking.com who also has an excellent you tube channel. He supplies comprehensive plans plus a 1-hour video explaining how to build the Adirondack chair. Because it was my first...

Has anybody any experience with circular tenon cutters. The only ones i can find are the Timber tuff range and the veritas cutter which seam to be able to cut longer tenons. We are starting to make woodland products. Any advice would be appreciated Alan

We are starting to make woodland products and are looking to buy a circular tenon cutter. The only two i can find and the Veritas and the Timber Tuff range. Both seam carable of completing the job but the Vertas looks like it can cut a longer tenon. Has anybody any experince of circular tenon...

We are starting to make woodland products and are looking to buy a circular tenon cutter. The only two i can find and the Veritas and the Timber Tuff range. Both seam carable of completing the job but the Vertas looks like it can cut a longer tenon. Has anybody any experince of circular tenon...

There must be a better way. I'm tried every type of pencil going plus biros plus thin markers plus drawing pens (which are excellent but run out in two seconds) knife markers are excellent but I sometimes don't want to mark the wood. Help. What do the professional use

Hi we have received funding fo our community woodwork workshop in corby northants. does anybody know any good dust control companies in this area. We have a workshop about the size of three garages. Need to hook up a table saw, bandsaw, thinner/thickneser, mitre saw and cnc router table. am...

for our new charity woodworking workshop we are building a series of French Cleat boards (1 my x 1 mtr) and intend to have a series of storage boxes hanging from them. After screwing together I few of them I discovered we have been donated an excellent compressor with air pots but no nailer. The...

Our charity community shed (www.ourshed.co.uk) is buying a Ooznest workbee CNC router 1500mm x 1500mm. We have a range of 3D printers also running Fusion 360 software. The object is to make things to sell to produce revenue for the charity. This CNC router is part of a professional woodworking...

Following some excellent comments from members I tried the following to avoid tear out when drilling holes in soft wood Using two bits of offcuts clamped together I drilled a 3mm hole right the way through (this avoids tear out on the bottom of the first offcut) Drill a 3mm pilot hole in the...

Im making a clamping jig for picture frames and need to drill a number of 8mm holes every 50mm. Using a proper wood drill how do i eleminate the tear out on the start of the hole. Im just using 2x2 wood from the local large shed. many thanks alan

Hi I am new to the site so please treat me carefully. We are setting up a men in sheds charity woodworking workshop in Corby Northamptonshire with a full semi-professional workshop. (Excellent new table saw, bandsaw, both SIP machines, thicknesser/planner the rest of the machines are donated...