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I have a T-slot cutter and want to put a grid-like pattern of t-slots on a piece of MDF for jig making reasons. For the shorter axis I'm using a mitre gauge rather than the fence to 'crosscut' the channels into the MDF. However, the rotational force of the cutter causes the MDF to get pulled...

I wanted to batch make a bunch of table saw runners for various jigs out of some maple. I thicknessed some maple down to the same width as the mitre slots using a drum sander, everything was perfect, the wood stayed completely true. I start ripping a bunch of strips off on the table saw, about...

I just jointed (not thicknessed - ie. no rollers) the surface of some maple and there was this weird pattern inside. It's not on the surface (chiseled away a bit and it's still there) and required about 2-3mm worth of passes to get rid of it. Any ideas what it is or where it came from? It kind...

Another new tool, another disappointment with out-of-the-box flatness. I'm starting wonder if people who write reviews and say things like "dead flat" are blind, or whether I'm just unlucky. Anyway, I just received a 16000 grit Shapton stone. My understanding is they're meant to be among the...

I needed to align my table saw mitre slot to the blade, which required undoing the bolts that hold the cast iron top to the base. These were M6 x 25mm bolts with round heads and a hex slot. One of the hex slots got chewed really badly and I had to grind flat edges onto the head to get mole...

I have an Axminster chip extractor. It has a steel grating to stop you putting your hands into the impeller. But shavings from the planer/thicknesser tend to get caught on it and it jams up. I've found today that this is especially bad with pine and it clogs up every 30 seconds or so. I was...

I recently got an Axminster AT254LTS. The crown guard is this: I hate it. It's too wide and makes it basically impossible to rip with less than 40mm against the fence using push sticks. The side panels that rise and fall cause inconsistent friction on the wood which leads to less than smooth...

I make guitars in a home workshop and currently have a Record BS350. I've got it absolutely dialled in to make nice straight cuts using all the usual advice here (Tuff saws, Snodgrass bearing placement etc.). But I hate switching blades to something that can make curved cuts and having to faff...

Merry xmas. Santa brought me an Axminster AT254LTS table saw. Everything was going so well. Cast iron table is perfectly flat. Fence, blade to mitre, etc. were super easy to set up perfectly. Then came the riving knife... I seemed to be going in circles for a few hours, messing around with the...

I have an EZE Lap diamond plate, 600 and 1200 grit. Sharpening plane blades and chisels, followed by a strop, gets me nice sharp edges. I'm really struggling to sharpen card scrapers such that I can take nice shavings with them. I have a proper burnisher and have tried multiple techniques. On...

Hi all I just received a UJK cast iron router table top when it was 15% off a few days ago with the intention of building it into a workbench. It's an absolute unit at 815x615mm but I wasn't too surprised to see it wasn't dead flat. Across one of the diagonals I can comfortably fit a 0.25mm...