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My tools aren't covered by my household insurance because my rented workshop is 9 miles away from home. I don't require business insurance as I'm retired, and only make stuff for my own pleasure. I don't require building insurance as my workshop is rented, but I would like a policy covering my...

earning a living at woodworking? I've recently retired from building vivariums, originally from melamine covered chipboard and laterly from polypropylene (dreadful stuff!), and would happily swap some learning experience for a second pair of hands from time to time. I'm 72 but fairly fit.

Apart from general lighting in a workshop, is there a way of adding a small flexible LED spot to a bandsaw? That's one problem, and another is a freehand router - is there a small, fixed LED light that could be strapped/clipped/gaffa-taped to a router to illuminate the cutter? My eyesight...

I need to make several columns of shelving, between 21" wide verticals of the same material. I'd appreciate suggestions of how to rigidly fix it all together, but would prefer to avoid screws through, as the heads would show. 15mm is too thin to rout grooves for the shelf ends, so I'm veering...

I see Rutland are e-mailing an offer on these. They may be fine for carpentry, but totally useless for the sort of woodwork I do. I use ordinary pencils, buy them by the dozen, and go for whatever is bright yellow so I can find them wherever they hide, but I wondered what you guys use?

from someone in the Bristol area. Specifically, I need to learn how to rout cross-grain dadoes with a hand-held router, and I'd prefer some one-to-one tuition. I'm becoming more relaxed with my table-mounted router, but would appreciate someone showing me how to do non-table stuff. If anyone...

I have several dozen reels of this, 22mm wide, and in a wide variety of wood grains. They're surplus to requirements, and anyone in the Bristol area is welcome to them. I'd prefer them to all go together.

I recently bought a Dakota jig from Rutlands, 'cause it was cheap! lol The two screwdriver bits were soft as butter, rounded over immediately, and I can't be bothered to return it as the jig itself is OK. So I ordered what seems to be the same screwdriver bits from Axminster, and they've...

Anyone got one? I've been given one, but it needs two thin spanners to change the blade. One seems to be 23mm, the other about 24mm across the flats. If anyone has one of these and could check the spanner sizes, I'd be grateful. They seem to be about 4mm thick maximum. I've tried Ryobi's...

I'm reaching a milestone birthday in a couple of weeks, and hoping to get a complete set of Steve's DVD's from my family. Can anyone tell me if there's a fine adjustment bandsaw fence on one of them, please? It would be for a Startrite 301. I enjoy a bit of anticipation!

I've got a 10" lunchbox planer, and have tried to plane board edges by stacking a few of the same width face to face, then running them through together, so they stay vertical. I've made a wooden U-shaped clamp, tightened with a wedge, but it's only partly successful compared with how tight a...

Anyone know where I can get this fixed in the Bristol area? I'd rather somewhere that do repairs, rather than send it away. The problem is the shaft won't lock when fully wound down, so it's impossible to change the bit. Any help appreciated!

I need to drill some 32mm diameter holes through American Oak, at an angle of 45 degrees. I've achieved this in the past by holding the wood in a clamp, and advancing the drill press downwards very, very slowly, but it's not always successful, because no matter how careful I am, the bit...

Up to now I've always finished Oak with Danish Oil, then waxed it, and I like the natural look that produces. But recently I saw an Oak item finished to look older. It was blacker, but not dense black. The grain was still very apparent. Any ideas what it had been treated with? If it had...

I've recently learned of the excellent Ian of Tuffsaws, who supplies bandsaw blades. Is there a similar excellent service for table saw blades?

I'm growing exasperated at two of my drills, Hitchi 12v. I've two chargers and three batteries. One charger died a year ago, now one of the three batteries is expiring, long before I think it should. And have you seen the price of new batteries? :cry: I can't afford to replace the...

There was a recent post on here with pics showing words etched onto wood. I've hunted, honest! but can't find it. I'd like to be able to do this, and wonder if it's possible in a low budget way. Any help would be appreciated.

600x450xSix-sided-lots-of-Holes-1-600x450.jpg.pagespeed.ic.Am45wno4MOAYTTjieRRF.jpg I know this is made with a router, using a particular bit, but can anyone tell me what it's called please?

5462b2b7bf6bd56e3b3f9aa5b91d1adbaa1872de3da86994c0bef5619307cbc6.jpg I've recently taken up woodwork again, and this is the first thing I made. I'm a beginner with a router, and there's a learning curve!

c89f129fef34b2a2add584105238e099596b012f23a4137dee3f5b9e1c365b28.jpgd302ef0db1c47bb77992ab690a37744094aee6850f86a6cdf8e794ddf8a07d44.jpg8a9e58d2384e52baf4246175624f1fb57479f429f3878d36e787cd8c9b420ad6.jpg I hope this works! I've had this pillar drill for some time, it's always been the way you...