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Hi - sorry if covered before but why does this stuff take so long to properly go off - I sprayed cabinet doors on Saturday and they're dry to the touch but if leave them touching anything they kind of stick to it and if they're there for any length of time they proper stick and bits of paint...

Hi Guys long time since I posted so do those tall kitchen wall units that look like they sit on the worktop actually sit on the worktop or is the worktop fitted round them so does worktop go first? I'd post a picture but it ain't happening all help appreciated and promise to do thread of...

So back in Nov 2009 issue 159 of F&C Mr Ley kindly showed us how to weave an oak panel - that looks nice I thought I'll do some of that sometime.... The usual Ikea-alike woven straw laundry basket has given up the ghost and the panels on the cover of the mag look like they would give a good air...

Seem to get mixed reviews wondered if anyone here has got/used one? got a big big apple tree that needs thinning easily over ten metres if I try and do it off of ladders with a bow saw i'll die and i'm too young to die obviously there are professionals who will do the job properly but cash is...

people do seem to get keen on these things so here's mine will upload in three sessions as there's a lot of pics Frame first Started with some botched legs i'd made (murdered) when I didn't have a clue - these came from the edge of a car park the bits used to stop people driving into the...

Hi all first the box: needed somewhere to keep this as it's cardboard packaging was looking a bit shabby. I chose some reclaimed oak (strong) dovetails (strong) rebated base (strong) partly inset lid (strong) - I wanted it strong! it's living in the garage and looking after glass cut to size...

Hi back again new post same question with added pictures: so here they are below about ten inches long head to toe - blagged from next door with a lathe thought the gouge shaped ones were gouges but they seem a bit short? There was one what I would call 'proper' gouge from sorby that is...

Hi - following on from the thread about making your own turning tools i'm now a bit worried... Having blagged a lathe and the tools near it in the shed from next door I do remember being a bit surprised that all the gouges and everything seemed a bit shorter than the nice long tools I see on...

Sounds painful doesn't it! Anyway I've blagged a lathe off the old lady next door it was her fathers and when he died apparently it was too heavy for the rellies to march off with so it stayed in the shed until I spotted it while feeding her cats when she was on holiday. Actually what a...

This is a nightmare my obviously cheap and poor quality mild steel chromed shower basket/caddy which hangs in the corner of the shower cubicle has of course rusted - which is fine it was cheap. so I thought i'd look for a stainless steel one so I don't have to replace every 18 months - WOW how...

Finally - glad to see the back of them - quick catch up: 1 - copied a design off Chems (with permission!) 2 - made a carcass 3 - made some drawers so all I need to do is put the top on and it's done right? wrong! First I realise that my drawers are all sloppy when they go in and out even...

First up - sorry for dragging this out but boy this is nothing to how long it took to make them - I may once have had dreams of being a cabinetmaker - I now know I am way too slow to make any money anyway so far I've ripped off a design, made some carcasses (carcassi?) and fiddled about with...

Hi - sorry for delay daughter got facebook I got no computer time - she's gone for a bit now so I wanted to rip off Chems' chest and got thus far: at which point instead of getting on with things I did the proper bloke thing and started to play about - In this case as I had neither any walnut...

Hi Guys - some of you may have seen my questions about this over the last 10 months or so but i'm now at a point where I might be able to finish so thought I'd start posting progress Before I do though I must say I couldn't have done it without the help from this forum so a big thanks. A long...

Hi - I'm hoping the title is the answer but am feeling nervous and would welcome confrimation (or otherwise) I've been making (since forever) a bedside chest of drawers and have oak inserts in the front of the pine drawers. I set to with the sander (normal orbital, plug the hoover in the back)...

ok so it's not a new idea but i've just done it and it was relatively easy so hope this might help others: Buy a cheap router from boot sale £5 - can get them new for £25 if it breaks from B&Q take all the bits off note how depth guage hold and depth stop hole line up line up perfectly...

assuming a home made router lift is a jig I hope i'm in the right place! to make the above I need to put a thread in a hole - which is already very conveniently in the right place for it in the router if the hole is 8mm (which it is) what size tap would I need to make the smallest threaded...

Hi - bit of a numpty newbie question would appreciate advice from those with the 'knowledge' (that's you lot!!) Hand dovetails, saw the angles, fretsaw out the waste (leave about 1-2mm above the line), chisel out the rest of the waste (this is the bit where the pins will go so the bit between...

Hi - would welcome some advice. I'm making some drawers with a contrasting edge similar to the lovely ones Chems made a while back (don't know how to post a link to his thread) but don't have a domino or the ability to cut half blind dovetails the way Chems does so I've gone at it a different...

Despite loads of opinions around I found it really difficult to decide which clamps I should buy - I ended up buying the six pack of Dakotas without actually knowing what I was going to get. so this is what you get: Aluminium bar 1.7mm thick ali folded to a U with another fold at the open top...