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Hi all I have a Kenwood blender attachment for my mixer. Love that mixer itself, rarely use the blender. It's out of warranty. I've just come to use it and the handle part is coming away from the main part of the jug. The jug is acrylic, no idea what the handle is made of. The machine still...

***BREAKING NEWS*** We are getting reports that Steve Maskery has been seen tampering with his bandsaw lower blade guard (Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Thursday). We are unable to verify this at this time, due to the difficulties of getting our independent reporter to the scene and be COVID-safe, but a...

Has anybody here tried this? I have a few pinhole voids in the catspaws of my pippy oak dining table. They are generally too small to fill conventionally, especially now that I have finished the top... So I thought I might try dropping in some CA glue. I saw a listing on eBay. I wasn't sure...

Just a heads up for a really good traditional hardware supplier. I tootled along this week and got some very nice quality table forks. If you want knobs, knockers, drawer pulls, hinges or the like, I can heartily recommend. It's not a shop as such, but a unit in an old mill, and you have to go...

Once upon a time, in a thread long ago... Well it might not be H&G stuff, but this morning I took delivery of some granite chippings And with a little help from Ray and Charlie (who else did you expect?), we barrowed and raked. Charlie was Tucker-Inner-in-Chief We were done by 11am...

I'm knowledgeable about a few things but Finishing isn't one of my fortés. Last year I made a wardrobe out of oak-flavoured MDF and finished it with hard-wax oil. I'm generaly pleased with it. It's OK. OK. I'm currently making a dining table. The top is pippy oak. It is quite coarse, needs...

Last week I bought a pack of assorted emery paper. £3.99 delivered. It has never arrived, despite getting a Shipped notification. I nudged the Seller, no reply, but instead got a full refund, so no idea what's gone on there. So today I've gone back on to eBay to buy again, to be greeted with a...

I don't often have to do cross-cutting operations on the tablesaw, as I have the big Bosch Axi-Glide SCMS, but there are some times when the TS is better suited. Although the SCMS does have a depth limiter, it is not excellent, the saw bounces somewhat, and when the blade depth is restricted...

It's not exactly fine woodworking, but I have knocked this up over the last couple of weeks. I had to buy the four posts, but everything else is cut from the old rafters from the shack that used to stand where my workshop now is. My mate Charlie helped me to get it in place.

It seems only appropriate, under the circumstances, to play by the Rounded Bevel variant. So Short Diagonals are allowed but Long ones will incur a penalty, OK? I'll begin. Record No. 5

[M&S] These are not just any holes, these are Famag holes [/M&S] I've had a set of Axminster twin-lip and spur drills for years, a couple of decades at least, probably longer. I've broken or bent a couple of the smaller ones but always been able to find a replacement, even if it was only a...

I've got very poor eyesight, have had since early childhood. With my contact lenses in I can see pretty much normally, but without them it's mainly just colour and movement for anything further than 3" from my nose. This morning I snagged my trousers, putting them on. Time to cut my toenails...

This was triggered by Steliz's post. I have laid a new garden path from the house down to the workshop (well, I have laid it out, no granite chips yet as the supplier has been closed for the last three months, but you get the picture). I would like a garden arch at the bottom end, not quite a...

Now I have been woodworking a looooong time. So long, in fact that you would think I would be better at it than I am. My dad was cabinet-maker and my granddad was a pattern-maker. I cannot remember a time when there was no wood or tools around. When I started woodworking, I spent a long time...

This not a plug for my latest venture! :) I'm always on the lookout for good recipes (especially for ones that can be scaled down). The internet is full of the things, of course, but keeping track of them can be challenging. I have accounts with half a dozen recipe sites, at least. Tasty, BBC...

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I'm pretty sure that I heard a R4 piece today referring to the increased risk of C-19 to "low-skilled" workers such as chefs. Really? I would never have put chefs into that category, I've cooked too many disappointing dinners myself to do that. (Although this evening's spicy pineapple pork chop...

Has anyone here had good results with a mitre lock bit? I have a couple, not used either in anger. I have renovated one of my garden planters. It needs new fake lega. They are made frome two pieces of 4x1 mitred along a long edge and stuck on over the corner of a posh crate. I have anew mitre...

To the tune of every blues song ever written: I'm self-isolating, babe, I've got the lock-down blues I'm self-isolating, babe, I've got the lock-down blues I can't go nowhere and show of my blue suede shoes. I can't get nuffink, I wanna go and buy some wood I can't get nuffink, I wanna go and...

I decided to be A Nice Guy today. I looked out of my office window (upstairs, spare bedroom) and saw a police car parked outside my NDN's house. Hmm, what's going on? Well the Services are having a hard time of it at the moment, so I went out and tucked a bar of chocolate under the windscreen...