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Hello fellow woodfolk. I have inherited a hardwood garden bench which has been outside for the past 20 odd years and needs a bit of TLC. To this end i have taken it apart and started to give it a sanding using a random orbital sander . The problem is that the dust is going staright into the...

Hello woodworking pals. Having just refurbished the living room and with some oak furniture installed, Mrs Pig wants a sideboard to compliment what we have. There is a problem, of course, why wouldn`t there be ? The space where it is going to live does not fit any of the sizes of sideboard that...

Hail friends, well met. Or Hi, to use more modern parlance. I have one or two things that i would like to sell and so thought i would give folks on here first dabs before putting them on the `Bay. For the Time Life books i want £ 2.50 per book but will haggle for mutiples. For the other items...

Greetings fellow woodtypes, i am in need of some help with finding some pictures of a pair of bookcases i saw posted on here a while back, but can`t for the life of me remember where. The bookcases were in oak, and fitted into the alcoves either side of a chimney breast. They had cupboards in...

This will be a simple one for you guys to answer, and i`m pretty sure i know the answer already but i have this little nagging doubt about my own ability. Do you apply sanding sealer before using Danish oil or afterwards ? And while i`m here , do you use sanding sealer before or after staining...

Dear all, I have just bought 4 internal doors from B&Q which are oak veneered for what i think is a very reasonable 50 quid apiece. One of them is destined to be for the bathroom, two for bedrooms and the fourth is for the lounge. So, woodworking chums, what finish to use ? My initial thoughts...

Having just (at long last )managed to succeed in getting an image onto a post, thanks to the excellent tutorial posted by Slim, i just wondered if any of you might want to have a gander at a couple of my recent projects. The picture of the firesurround doesnt really show it off too well, the...

I have a new job and thought i would share it with you all. :D :D Piggy

Dear All, I am now embarked upon my most ambitious project to date in terms of getting it right. I`m building 2 oak bookcase/cupboard units for the lounge to sit in the alcoves adjacent to the fireplace.So, as it is going to be very much on show, it`s got to look as proffesional as it can. I...

I went to an auction house yesterday and there was a box of woodworking tools including 2 wooden planes. 1 was about the length of a No 6 and the other was more the size of a block plane. Now, having seen in this very forum, the virtues of wooden planes being extolled, i decided to put in a bid...

If anyone has noticed my last 2 posts they will have seen that i can`t get the hang of putting quotes in properly. :roll: Whilst this may be the least of my worries, i do hope that someone out there will be able to tell me how to do it properly.( preferably using words of less than 3 syllables...

Just a query regarding the sending of Pm`s. I have sent a pm and the little box appeared saying `message sent`. However, when i looked in my `sent ` messages box it wasn`t there, although it was in my outbox.If messages in the outbox have not been sent, how does one send them as this particular...

I live in Tamworth and am trying to find a supplier of oak faced plywood for a furniture project thats coming up. I will be needing various thicknesses from 3mm to 18 mm. Does anyone know where i can get my mitts on some within say a 30 mile radius ? The project, by the way, is a...

Hi, I`m a newbie on here and have just bought myself a Stanley No 5 plane.Just before xmas i was browsing through the magazines in Smiths and saw an article on sharpening/setting up a plane. Not thinking i would be buying one for a while i put the mag back down .(Plonker !!) Does anyone have the...

Hi, i`m a newbie here.Have just bought a Stanley No 5 plane and need to set it up/sharpen etc. Just before xmas i saw an article about just this in one of the woodworking magazines, but like a plonker i didnt buy it as i wasnt expecting to get a plane for some time. I don`t suppose any one out...