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Anyone got any good methods for drying wood other than stacking it & waiting forever for it to dry lol I buy most of my hardwoods as kiln-dried slices so I am OK with boarding it, I was given some yew about 3 years ago & it spent the first couple of years as logs before I cut it on the bandsaw...

Looking for some advice on making an Oak dish/platter, it will be 16" in diameter & about 2" in height. I am now wondering if I should be making this using pieces glued together rather than one large piece as there will be a lot of material removed from the one side & not so much from the other...

Anyone on the forum have any experience with a jet JWBS-18-M I bought mine mainly for resawing so most of the time it has a 3/4" blade fitted but my son wanted to do some projects so I bought a 1/2" & a 3/8" blade for him to use. I am having problems with fitting both these blades, the bottom...

Anyone on the forum valet their own car? Looking for recommendations on cleaning products, I meant to get my car done by a Company but I have left it a bit late now lol, got the MOT coming up & as it's a Mobility Car the dealership will take photos while it's in so I need to do a pretty good...

Someone brought this in for me a couple of weeks ago, it is really heavy & to be honest I thought it was just water logged but having just checked it it is at 14% pictures are as I got it, end grain after cutting a piece off & once it had been resawn & ran through the drum sander Weighed a piece...

OK sit comfy, time for another story lol My Dad died about 14 months ago & my Mum has finally decided that she can't manage the house on her own & is moving to a bungalow in a retirement complex. While clearing out the garage we came across a table that was apparently my Grandfathers & when he...

OK so as the title, I have just made a couple of bedside tables for a customer using a piece of reclaimed or re purposed timber, not sure what the official terminology is to be honest. It was a simple job so not much in the way of labour but I had no idea how to price the job as the wood was...

I have a drumsander that I purchased a while ago now but it never really got a lot of use before I had to move workshops. Now I am in the new workshop I am trying to use it a bit more but I find the sanding roll seems to clog really quickly. I have a thicknesser so I am not trying to dimension...

Can someone tell me what wood this might be, it's part of an old snooker table I came across, had a dark coloured stain on it when I got it.

I bought my bandsaw mainly for resawing as I buy tree slices & the thickness can vary a lot. Had it about 2 years (I think) but to be honest it has not really had a lot of use in that time. I have just had to move to a different workshop & in order to make the bandsaw more manageable, I removed...

Just moved into a new industrial unit & I'm not sure yet if they are going to let me put my wall cupboards up on the workshop walls. Sure I would be able to make up some sort of framework in order to still be able to use them as wall cupboards. Each cupboard probably doesn't have a huge amount...

When I move into my new workshop I will probably want to build a couple of worktops & at least one of them will be with the MFT style hole pattern. The one I am currently using I made from Baltic birch ply & would probably have just done the same with these if it were not for the price of birch...

My daughter has asked if I can put up a couple of shelves in her Bedroom, I was going to build something with 18mm birch ply, probably some shelving & cupboard space. It may get painted if she decides to do that but she may not lol. Having phoned my usual supplier birch ply is almost double the...

I have to move workshops as the one I currently rent is being knocked down to build houses, found a new place to rent that is actually twice the size so will allow me to look at things that haven't been an option previously. One thing that I sometimes thought would be handy but didn't have room...

I am having to move to a new workshop & will more than likely need to build a couple of benches just really for light work such as finishing, nothing to heavy & won't need any sort of clamping or vices. Just wondering what people would generally use for something like that to keep the cost down...

New to the forum so not sure if this is in the right place, if it's not then can somebidy move it please. I am not very good when it comes to different wood types, I buy most of what I use from a local sawmill & it is written on it so each time I use a piece from the board I make sure the name...

Evening, can't really say that I have been lurking although I have read posts about various subjects when using a google search for info. Had a question that I wanted to ask so it only seemed right that I register first. Bit of a novice when it comes to woodworking generally & especially...