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I've come across that once. lady wanted a double door cupboard made, nothing fancy. MDF materials came at £75, i added a modest £60 a day labour, 1 day to build, paint and 1 day to deliver and fit. she started to haggle and i said its not worth my time and distance to make it, better off with...

Thanks BH, People have said time is money so need to invest in electrical machinery but I don't have a massive work area as its only my garage where I have 2 long work benches. Bugbear, I've only just done the concept and calculating material requirement. Once I do that I can visit maybe...

Hi there, I have left my I.T job due to the ar#$e licking nature of the workplace, feel of isolation by others and generally I had no passion for the I.T work. My passion is working with wood and building my knowledge on it. Although i admit i have a hill to climb on knowledge and techniques, I...

Hi fellow makers, After some rearrangement of my bedroom I made some space to make 2 bedside cabinets. I decided to take an adventure into hardwood's and see which one i like to use for making the doors and draw panels. The carcass of the cabinets will be made of plywood so it leaves me to...

Hi, I have a design to do a brass inlay gift box but i have never done brass inlay before. I have looked on google for references but i cannot find much info with photo's. Can anyone guide me to a site to give some pointers. All i wanted to design was a brass/copper border around the inside...

Hi sacha, I have never used danish oil, i have only ever used polyurethene varnish as its what i always observed my dad using quite often. Hard wax oil is hard wearing so i assume it will last a very long time and as its wax it may seal the wood so i'm not sure if danish oil will work to give...

Hi, Maybe i can help. I have done a few projects myself and novice in this area so hope i can be of help. always went with colron stain if you want to use that and used a polyurthene varnish afterwards but it can be a bit messy if you don't know what you are doing with it. if you choose to go...

Hi, I got my can of hard wax oil yesterday and did the 1st coat. although its a 1st coat I am impressed with the feel and look of the grain after polishing it up. 8) I have a few slightly small runny marks #-o . Can i sand these down with a 1200 paper, clean with white spirit and re-apply a...

Hi Shane, I have done more research into the chestnut hard wax oil and its my choice of finish. How many coats would you recommend? I have found some posts on here and i am slightly confused on the term buff or rebuff, what does this mean?

Hi Shane, where can i get chesnut hard wax oil, would BnQ have it? I didn't want to have to reapply another coat after a few years. As its a gift box, i'm making it for someone else and it would be kept indoors and i don't want the coats to go bad and need reapplication of coats, a bit like...

Hi, I have made a small gift box out of mahogony and I wanted to know which would be a best finishing coat to bring out the colour and grain of the wood. I like the natural grain of the wood and its redish/brown colour so i didn't want to stain it with a different colour. I have never used teak...

Hi, I do PC rebuilds and also sorted out quite a few problems with other people's slow PC's. One of the major factors in running a smooth system is having a decent amount of memory and how efficiently it is used. Factors that contribute to poor memory utilizations is background applications...

Hi Jason, I am using white halfords based acrylic primer in spray form. i will apply nice thin layers of the primer and build up the coverage. I have used tin plate to cover the main areas and around the edges i have used bent mild steel wire, all of which have been lightly sanded down to get...

Hi all, I know this may not be directly related to wood work but i enjoy working with metal (sorry to offend the joiner purists out there ;) ) and i am making a small brooch. To paint it i have decided tobuse various gloss colours of Enamel paints made from humbrol which are oil based and i...

Hi All, My dad has an old sharpening stone he has been using for a quite a few years and its developed a uneven surface due to wearing and I wanted to ask if there are ways or tools to sand it down to get an even flat surface or are there places that can do it for a small fee. He has tried to...

Hi mathew, I read your post about the type of steel which is ideal and how brittle carbon steel is and I found that topic of huge importance when selecting the right tool made of the right type of steel. I found Dakota on that website to be cheap but i know little about them and the type of...

Hi All, My dad is a carpenter by trade and he has expressed an interest in doing wood carving so i thought i could get this for him for xmas. I had a look on rutlands.co.uk for carving chisels. My initial interest was to look for bahco (formly sandvik) or marples or stanley but marples are...