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Hello everyone. Excuse me if I have this in the wrong section of the forum......and thanks in advance for any replies! Our garden is surrounded, as many are, by "standard" fence panels consisting of thin, overlapping wood. They slot into concrete fence posts. So far, so good....One of the...

Apologies if this is in the wrong section. A few of my power tools (jigsaw, random orbit sander, angle grinder) sill live in the cardboard boxes they came in, but the boxes are getting battered and I'd like to store the tools in a more tidy and secure way. So, I bought 3 plastic boxes (with...

Hello everyone. Continuing my newly-found woodwork journey, one of our friends asked if I would make her a condiment holder for sauces / vinegars etc. The attached photo shows my efforts - it's clamped for the glue to set, then I'll finish it by sanding and oiling (I have some Osmo oil that I...

Hi all, I have a Draper No. 44 wooden marking gauge (https://www.drapertools.com/product/64440/carpenters-marking-gauge/ ) It's been in my (dry) shed for a while and now it's seen the light of day, it's very difficult to move the "square" piece up and down the shaft. The whole thing is made...

Hello everyone. For my next project, I've been asked if I can make a condiment holder - the sort of thing common in cafes to hold vinegar / sauce bottles etc. Essentially, it's a box that looks like a small wooden tool box - the sort of thing that people used to carry that is a tray with raised...

Hello all. I wonder if anyone else has experienced this? I recently bought a SMS210 Evolution sliding mitre saw as I wanted an upgrade to my current Evolution CMS210 (none-sliding saw) and the SMS210 looked nice and compact for my small space. Because I'm space-restricted, I don't have a mitre...

Hello all. I'm in the middle of making a log lamp for a friend. I'm using a kiln dried ash log that is 200mm /120mm wide. This is what I've learned, but I have a couple of questions as well..... 1) I bought a 450mm long, 10mm diameter, auger drill bit designed for wood to drill the hole down...

Hi all. I am very limited on space and wondered if anyone had a good idea for a small portable table saw, ideally that I can store in my shed and use on my B&D workmate or my Keter workbench when necessary. I've seen a few around on the likes of Amazon (eg this...

HI everyone, hope all of you are well! I've been asked if I can make a table lamp from a small log - probably no more than 10" high. I've explored YouTube (as you do) and just really wanted to ask the experts a few questions.... 1) I don't think it especially matters what sort of wood I use...

Hi everyone. I'm just getting to the end of making chopping boards from a slab of cherry wood. It's a good job I don't mind sanding! Anyway, I've followed advice from you kind people plus a few YouTube tips and have just sanded the final time with 240grit paper on a Bosch random orbit sander. I...

Hi everyone. I've got hold of some nice cherry wood from a slab and am making a kitchen board. As I hope you can see from the attached, I've taken off the bark and will work on on the live edge. My question is 'have I removed ALL the bark, or does the darker colour at the edge need to come off...

Hello everyone. We have a converted garage (with bathroom) that is used when we have all of our family visit and is used as a bedroom - in the space (other than the bathroom) there is a sofa bed. The room isn't used for anything else, so has become somewhere to dump stuff and I'm keen to make...

Hello everyone. My niece jas asked me if I will make her a chopping board for her new house. The kitchen is quite big. I've previously been asking for "router advice" as my original plan was to make a board, chamfer the edges and rout a groove into the top. But, because I've been unable to...

Hello everyone. I'm very much a novice woodworker. My niece has asked if I can make her a chopping board for her kitchen. I'd like to put a groove around the top of the board and now need to buy a router. I wondered if you might suggest a decent budget model? I've never used a router before...

Hi I jave had my Bosch PST18 Li jugsaw for just under 4 years. It isn;t used a huge amount. Today, I started a little shelf making project that needed some corners cutting out for fitting, so out comes the jigsaw. But, the blade won't stay in any more. In the past, I've simply instered the blade...

Hello everyone. I've volunteered (weak moment) to make some small boxes for my golf club. The boxes will be placed on the ground on each tee, and will be used for golfers to throw away any broken tees. This avoids a) a mess b) plastic tees being trodden into the ground and lying there for, well...

Good morning all, and Happy New Year! I wonder if you might have some good advice for an enthusiastic amateur? Over the holidays, we managed to break one of our dining chairs. (It could have been a lot worse, happily the occupant at the time went down very gracefully!). I've attached a few...

Hi all. Ages ago,I inherited a vintage Black & Decker Workmate (model WM325, the old aluminium dual height version) from my father in law. Over the years, the push-in round rubber feet that are used when the bench is set at the lowest level have disappeared, except for one! I've had a quick...

Hi all. I'm doing a small job for a friend - basically, I'm going to build a triangular step for their newly installed 'garden room'. It's an easy triangle to cut the wood for - 2 x 45degree angles and the third is 90 degrees. The plan is to build a frame (timber I've got is 100mm wide x 32mm...

Hi all. I'm not lucky enough to have a workshop - my tools are stored in a shed and I use our garage conversion for any projects. By ' garage conversion' I mean that we had our garage converted to a nice garden room with a small bathroom.There's a sofa bed in there for when we have all our...