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b&q have a laminate cutter for about £60. Has anyone any experience of this machine. Cannot see it out of the box. Claims to enable mitre cuts. Just a bit wary.

If you get a good one, and I did, then OK. My brother has just returned two. Both supplied with incorrect blades. Even the correct blades failed to cut without slipping. Their attitude and customer service was pathetic. I will not order from them in future.

Following my brother's experience, I would deffinately steer clear of Axminster. Ordered a bandsaw. Fitted with incorrect length blade plus other faults. returned..and ordered a dearer model..|Arrived with wrong size blade.AGAIN. The mitre slot was sloppy to the extent that it was...

have just beeen reading through this forum regarding the Woodstar shaper. can't believe I was so bolshy. Must have been the depressives. However!! am just about to order the woodstar. My diy scheme came to naught because my mate had to cope with his wife's terminal illness. Isn't age a real...

Hi Ivan. I don't blame the supermarkets for doing what gives them a profit. I know that Brogdale and Wisley did their darndest to pursuade the supermarkets to support local fruit. French apples come into season four weeks before our apples. The housewife, seeing these, became used to buying...

Thanks for the update Ian. Hornets!!!..Naaaah. baa lambs.... bleating.. It's all my fault. Should have simply asked for reviews of the Woodstar and NOT mention that my previous router had failed due to dust ingress. Up sufaced the...jumpie to conclusions clan...except that it was the...

Thanks for the explanation. Too wet in the garden so spent an hour on Porter Cable on Amazon..Makes you spit when you see what is available over there. 3hp motor for about £80. I have a 112 volt trans so no problem. Having done your own I can understand you warning me of the pitfalls but I...

Dom..Have just followed up your link to E.BAy and a motor like this excites me. You mentioned R&M and the something following. Can you explain what this is. Would it be practical to import from U.S. Ron

dom.. you have paraphrased nearly all my conclusions and I really appreciate your interest and concerns and your research on my behalf. I am disabled and need to use a car where ever. To bring a car across to mainland England sets me back over eighty pounds... not the sort of money I would...

Ivan..apples. my main hobby over the past twenty five years is indentifying and propogating old apple varieties. I have spent many an hour with staff at Brogdale, roaming the orchard and testing different varieties, likewise with Harry Baker at Wisley, the Guru of english apples. The demise...

I agree with both sides of this discussion and it does seem that I am hoping for the impossible for the moment..but that is what I entered this forum to discover. I have not had a look at the Woodstar and would be very interested in seeing any manufacturers litature. I am guessing that the...

dom..I don't wish to get into issues with you. I came on this forum to ask if anyone had bought and used the woodstar. I have had one favourable response from someone who has purchased this machine, used it, and thinks it is OK.. Others have presumably SEEN this machine and have put it...

argee. You are obviously a caring concened woodworker who likes to help,but...you are a traditionalist...I am a progressive..therein is the conflict. your thought pattern is "pipper, it's broke, lets replace it" my response is. "pipper, its broke..WHY!! is it something I have done, could I...

argee. If you have something to say, say it on this site, don't hide away in private messages. You are simply trying to put your solution into my problems. The sense in which I would employ my toolmaker friend would not entail cost. I scratch his back and so on. For your information, the...

Thanks, Digit...The problem, as I see it, is that innovations in the woodworking sector outside America are manufacturer driven..ie. why produce something better when customers keep buying the present products? I'm comfortable with those who are satisfied with what they have, and lets be...

Please read what I have written, not what you think I have written. The failed router was a Froud 2000 unit costing over two hundred and fifty pounds way back. Please see my previous submissions. My current one is also a Froud unit. Low budget!!! How about an apology. I did not say I...

Dom..another false assumption. the router you pictured was reviewed in a recent woodworking mag. It's weakness is that it has a thin metal table top, unlike the Woodstar...research done, my friend.!! That there is another table top machine available does support my belief that there is a...

I remember the Super markets claiming that they never stocked english apples because there was no call for them, people preferred the imported apples. Sainsbury's now have their own english apple orchards!!! If the product is not available, how do the manufacturers know there is no market? The...

Dom.. feel free to think I am making something of nothing. I think differently. It is obvious that you, and those who think like you have never had a problem and are constantly using their routers on a day to day basis. I have many friends who use their machines as a recreation and cannot...

Thanks for the response and details. No! at that price I will not be buying one, but it interests me just the same. Reading through this site there is an inescapable fact that putting a hand held router inverted under a table does create issues. Using an air line is not an option for the...