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I agree with the Op....... I've had similar issues. Nextbase seem to have cornered a market with their line-up..... I'd be interested to hear of reliable alternatives. However, I did find that on my version of the same camera, the push-fit connection between the cameraand its bracket fixed to...

The 18th/19th C plane-makers relics that we see today used batch techniques, passing on-wards, each man doing a set cut..... plus the blanks were produced en-masse with reverse-profile mothering-planes to form the basis of the soles. As a long-time carver, I think that you are using paring...

There are many ways to achieve a decent chamfer and, no doubt, they will all be displayed here presently. It may be that chiselling is one way to go to get the bulk of the stock out, but after that you may have the answer for the final, finishing cuts lurking in the back ground in your second...

If a price is based per M/cube, it really only applies to a cubic meter of wood on a wagon. That seems a bit steep, but if it was only one piece of Oak........they'll charge what they can get away with. Did you agree a price per ft beforehand?

The fact is that you are questioning the whole issue and it suggests that you will not be comfortable in years to come and the issue of those cracks will always be on your mind. Frankly, it ain't worth the blood-pressure.

After all that, the next important thing to consider is building insurance if you buy it. The fact that you know of the 'defect', however minute, before buying may count against a future claim if greater related subsidence becomes an issue, or there is an issue with the quality of the work...

Ikea?

The finest grade of Welsh sharpening-slate comes from the deep underground caverns, was often sold as "Carreg-Cachu".

This little portable item cropped up on Christopher Schwartz's 'Lost Art Press' site about 10 years ago and created some excitement. (The embedded link to the original 2012 auction in OZ doesn't work any more). https://blog.lostartpress.com/2012/05/02/a-workbench-for-the-shop-deprived/ I...

........ It's all about skinning cats. Apparently, the cat is rotated in the opposite direction south of the Equator.

It's exactly as Paul Hannaby says. It could appear a complete heresy these days of obsessive sharpening, but one thing that was stressed when I started turning, that you went straight from the grinding wheel to the work at the highest practical speed - grinding the edge lightly. It then...

Yes, I believe that he worked at Farnborough before he "retired". Sadly-missed, old-school common-sense.

With regard to the curvature of classic columns, the word you're searching for is "Entasis". All vertical columns have it to a degree .......Without it, they would appear to the eye as vertical pipes. The downward converging parallels on those table legs is a phenomenon within the camera...

An interesting point, Jim. Many years ago, when Alec Tirant were the ultimate source for carving gear and tools, they had a shop in Theale, near Reading where I lived at the time. They were old-style specialist suppliers. You could buy all sorts of stuff there, including un-handled carving...

As all the others have said.... free standing. I had a similar job back in the late 90s entailing a set of book shelves in a Grade 2+ listed ex-vicarage. The client wanted a study in what was originally the old scullery. In this case two of the walls were original (16thC, I think)...

Probably, but I don't remember...... it was almost 30 years ago that I repaired that table. The coin was a little battered and worn at the time and shoved into a gap in a leg-tenon, almost out of sight. George IV was on the throne 1820 to 1830; prior to that he was Prince Regent, though...

No reliable signal or any sort of 'G' here, so nowt happened................... A bit of a fizzle-out on the TV-snooker as odd phones went off here and there.

I have rarely done any repair work, but once I did undertake a re-glue on an old (Late-Georgian) side table. Nothing elaborate, but it entailed dismantling the top in order to remake the joints. In the process I exposed the tops of the legs which had an old George IV halfpenny hammered into one...

If it's an old plane, the wood may have dried and shrunk or the original handle may have been swapped if the original one broke. You could try some slow setting epoxy to bed any slack under the heel of the handle and/or a washer or two packed under the screw head. Paul Sellers has detailed...

Bang on, old Boy! This one came from the latter series of Monty Python.......... During its earlier series, M.P. was capable of emptying pubs when it came on....... unless they had a telly in the back room. Not an option hereabouts. :sleep: