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It's under our names, Matty! :) The Essex/ Suffolk borderlands are a long way from Dorset.

It's about 48kg. Not the easiest thing to weigh.

I'll weigh it when I get out to the workshop in an hour or two.

I have had this saw 25 or 30 years, and it has had less and less use as I moved over to a mainly-hand-tools way of working. Time for it to go. Mechanically sound, with everything present and in good working order, but the plastic cover over the arm is a bit tatty. Most of that (particularly the...

I tried really hard to complete these two pieces of furniture and post about it this weekend before the powers-that-be could carry out their threat to ban me. You'll have to read to the end to see whether I made it or not. We left it last weekend with me just starting the bookshelves for the...

Sorry Phil, but I'm going to let you down, I'm afraid. All will become clear in the next few days.

Hewett's is a superb book, but from memory it only covers the period up to about 1700, and much of it on framing techniques.

Put a new blade on your bandsaw, adjust it properly, and use that....planing a clean face after each cut.

NM

If you do buy a new piece, you'll certainly be sighting it carefully before making your choice!

You've two choices with the twisted board, I reckon. One is to replace it altogether, and the second is to make it the hind-most board, and plane it down. I'd almost certainly do the latter. Don't try and fight twist, because twist always wins. You'll find your board will introduce a twist to...

Well, that isn't quite how you'd put it. It's 1:48, a quarter inch to the foot, or one inch to four feet. Apparently it's "O" scale for model train makers, and has some Lego connection too.

I reckon it is targeted just at you, Steve. I certainly haven't had any such offer. I trust you aren't trying to buy from the same trader who let you down first time....

Weathertight! That's a milestone.....

Never mind the height adjustment, which will turn out to be a gimmick. Have a good think about incorporating machines into a bench. It's not a great idea, unless your bench is the size of Texas. You'll find that every time you want to use one of the machines you have to clear the bench, and that...

Careful what you build in that field, Bob. You'll start attracting the attention of the Planners. I reiterate what the others have said about Paslode: buy something else. Not liking the cold was the big deal for us, but having to buy their expensive nails, bundled up with gas that we didn't...

No, they're just tenons into the same groove that the ply goes into. It's fine for lightweight doors like these that will only get opened once in a blue moon.

I wouldn't mind one of those bandsaws if they're two or three hundred pounds.......

My local builder's merchant (Ridgeon's, Sudbury) is packed full of the stuff. It doesn't take much selecting.

I did contemplate that, Doug, and the only reason I didn't do it is that there are 4 pairs of double doors in the kitchen, and none of them have a bead at the centre join. I did it in my previous kitchen, though, when some doors shrank.