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Ok, I think I want to take my old saw and build a new one from the bits. Would you use box section steel for a case or something else would you use flat section steel for the top or something else ie the old top bolted to runners attached to the new base ( the top I have is way of flat, but...

Ok first of all I am never buying a Macallister (B&Q special) table saw again, after a while of turning out out of square timber and continously resetting the blade I decided to do a check on the table that I don't normaly try, so I ran a straight edge over it, I could give this thing to alton...

Momo had some fun today wheeeee :lol: , uh oh, this normally ends in disaster, like the roof falling in :cry: . Anyway I had enough of being in cramped corners so decided to remove the wall and make my workshop larger, only problem is it used to be the main wall and what is between the...

I had a laugh today, went to town and got a new record curved spokeshave to replace the cheapy that didnt work, on the way home I swear as god is my witness I saw a 4x4 land rover smoking like a trooper, not unusual I think untill I saw the rest. 1 woman driving, 1 as passenger and a whole lot...

I live in an area that is very affluent and everyone is a bit becks and vicky if you get me, my garden is the only one up our road that is not exactly disgusting but just untidy, well I do have longish grass compared to them but they do run roun their lawns with razor blades every sunday, I also...

For the last three days or so I have been waiting to receive 2 matching old and worn Mahogany sideboards from a person on freecycle, they categoricaly assured me it was solid genuine mahogany and the sideboards had been in the family for donkeys years but where both broken. I sat salivating at...

Has anyone had one of these branded ones from screwfix, I need a round face one thats cheap to do a job today so would like to know if they cut ok.

not sure where this goes, so here we are. I keep noticing people talking about 3 phase kit, which I understand to be about 400 volts, how do you get to use these in your domestic hokme, or should I say how do you get a supply to be able too.

She who I was going to ignore for a frotnight went to the tip today to get rid of some rubbish, upon return she said to me " theres some old tat in the back of the car you better get it cleaned up as I am not driving it around in that state", I quickly gave her the brush and pan and told her to...

Well today has been a momentous one. First her who will remain nameless and ignored for two weeks told me I could not have my thicknesser ( wont tell what I called her) so in revenge I went to screwfix and bought one of them diddly little triton band saws, BIG mistake, but it was within my...

Today I found out that a friend and mentor in my beekeeping world passed away on Tuesday, she fell ill on friday ( I do not know what with) and I was not even aware as I had only seen her a week or so before and she looked fine then and was running around all over the place. Golly Sturt was a...

Told me today that she wanted her own sewing room, when I asked her where I was meant to put it she told me I could remove my darkroom and all my cameras and stuff from the loft and she would have that !, I told her fine but I was going to put all my cameras etc under her side of the bed as mine...

remove the teeth and sharpen as if an older type saw when the teeth break ? or is it pointless.

You dirty minded old beggars.... Nope I got a Record No 076 bullnose plane of fleabay, hah! wife is now eating kit-e-kat for the week and the kids are on gruel.. Priorities right lads :lol: . So who is going to tell me I got robbed for the £21. always someone who will.

Is there anywhere that lists plane numbers against what features they have, like whats different between a record 076 and a 77 type etc and why they changed the designs. I never understood these number systems.

Well I'm lost if this belongs in hand tools or here it seems to be a hand tool but then not a clamp is a hand tool after all. For a while I had the problem that I could never get enough clamps, and was always juggling things, that was untill I saw that screwfix did packets of 1000mm threaded...

I have a trend CDJ300, however it only has the one comb for dovetails, and the extra combs are about £30 each. So I am thinking of buying a newer one if I can, I have been looking at the Leigh range, anyone got one and can tell me if their "all that", or is there something else out there. I...

Probably been done to death but I cant find a specific explanation via a search, but what was the point of a corrugated sole on planes and how old is a stanley with one and would it be a good buy ?.

This morning after I got up, I went out into my "workroom" and I started up my table saw to rip a bit of pine, within 30 seconds the wall was being banged in the front room and the shouts of "turn that *****ing thing off or I'm reporting you to the council" uh huh I thought, well as my room is...

Hi all, sorry if this is in the wrong place but its a bit confusing for me as to where to put it. Ok where to start, well 48 yrs old, and used to do a lot of woodwork when younger, had to stop due to Asthma and kept coming up in weird rashes ( never got to the bottom of that one apart from...