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Raining and cold, had a bit of a tidy up, got bored and in a mad moment stuck an inscription on the power tool box.

Not a big lover of Aldi, have to be dragged kicking and screaming there by SWMBO and today was one of those events. While SWMBO pushes the trolley round I relieved my boredom as is usual with all the other happy husbands congregating around the Workzone containers seeing what is on offer this...

One of the things that tends to frustrate and annoy me is when you go to a shop to purchase an item you have bought many times before only to find its no longer manufactured. This occurred recently when I completed my garden security gate and needed to gaze its observation window. The plan was...

To Glue What’s in To Glue To Sand. What’s in To Sand To Sharpen What’s in To Sharpen. To Measure What’s in To Measure. Further to my W.I.P. on my new bench there is another project to which I have added to improve my efficiency and that is the drawers beneath my Power...

Late last year I started re-organising my tool storage to accommodate my collection of wood planes, my new thicknesser and cover up and protect a dryer. Its still not completed but its getting there. As in most workshops dust is a problem and tools if not put away do collect an annoying amount...

I required to cap the gate posts for my newly hung gate which brought back some memories of when I was an apprentice. At our works the owner always insisted these are to be made by the apprentices for a number of what I thought were good reasons. 1. Time served joiners were too expensive to...

Picked up what I thought was a nice panel pin plunger today from a house clearance shop. Looked loved and well used with a nice action so it deserves a good home.

23 Jul 2013, 29 Aug 2013, Last August I made a new gate for the garden which unfortunately was completed just prior to going into hospital for a minor operation to which the Doc banned from any lifting of any kind. I was banned from the workshop also. This put hanging the door in abeyance...

These are what I bought at the Bentley Wood Fair yesterday These are the items I purchased at the Bentley Wood Fair this year which were all on my shopping list. There were other items I would have liked to buy (correction) owned one in particular. These antique braces, they varied from...

Bentley sope the weathers fine, if not it will be a welly job.

I have built a number of gates recently and the boss (my wife) wanted one now! It was required to be completed before:- 1. We took delivery of a spa and 2. Before I went to Hospital for a minor operation. The original gate I failed the completion target. I did manage to at least partially...

The recent heat wave has caused me a couple of problems on my current project and wonder if this hot weather has affected any of your projects, apart from trips to the beach or Lido? First the stock I machined as the boards for a F.L.B. door to fit exact in the frames width and the frame...

Since my last post in April I have still not been able to return to building my planer/thicknesser and storage for my collection of wood moulding planes. I have had a number of projects on the go, the first being the repair of the cedar greenhouse. This project extended due to not being able...

Breaking off from my own project of producing a base for my planer/thicknesser, protection for dryer and storage for my wood moulding planes with the addition of a router lift, is the moving and repair of my daughters cedar greenhouse to a new allotment site. First two days spent dissembling...

I am reerecting a ceder timber greenhouse. Have checked the timber and it is ceder but it is very dry and no cederish smell when planed. What suggestion would you advice for rejuvinating the wood?

THis lunch time on today's "Bargain Hunt" program one of the teams were advised by their expert to purchase Rabone Rule. The show today was from Portabello Road Notting Hill, a place I know quite well. The rule was dated 1930, included a spirit level and protractor. The ticket price was a...

Returning form London yesterday passed an antique shop in Westram which looked interesting so turned round and had a look. This is what I found, not what I was looking for but gained my attention especially the price of £8. Looked it up on the internet which stated sold by Record as one the...

Had one of the screw gone missing on my Record 044 and a missing depth gauge on one of my 78 rebate planes. Telephoned G & M tools if they had them in their spare parts box? They had and as I had to go to Wisborough Green called in on the way. I have to go there with sewn up pockets next...

On recently completing a router lift I had to try it out on forming a Bolection mould. From my collection of wood planes I only have one hollow plane. My efforts were not all sucessful and after a few goes produced my normal 8 out of 10 result. My question is what would combination of planes...

This is a WIP of three parts running concurrently. Firstly. In September last year purchased a thicknesser/planer where does it go in a small crowded workshop? Second It requires a stand. Third. I need to improve my door making skills. Part of my negotiations with SWMBO I...