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Just picked up a second, brand new Triton router, the Jof001 1/2" model. Just turned it on for the first time and the sound coming from it is hideous. I know routers can be a little whiny but this one sounds just weird. It has a relatively low pitched whine, quite loud that changes in pitch...

Hi, I posted up a link for this video in another thread but thought I'd give it it's own to see if anyone likes it. I put the exhibition together over the last week and the actual exhibition has finished now, but I made this little video to show the setup and a little timelapse of the opening...

Hi there. Thought I'd introduce one of our latest woodworking projects from Warwickshire College in Leamington spa We recently completed work on a large-scale sculptural memorial bench project at Coombe Country Park near Coventry. The bench was the result of a competition thought up by Keith...

We have loads of Marples chisels in our College workshop like the ones pictured below which we've had for many a moon. Several of the popular sizes are getting a bit short now from countless re-grinds. I can't seem to find anywhere that sells these ones anymore, they all seem to be the...

Just got a Trend honing guide with a lovely wide roller but have found that very rapidly, the wheel starts to become sticky, presumably from water ingress from the diamond stone. To counter this, is it ok to use light oil as a lubricant on diamond stones, perhaps something thin like WD40. I've...

Firstly, apologies as I'm sure sharpening has been done to death, but my question I hope is a little different. I work as a technician on a furniture course at a college and am constantly trying to improve and streamline the way we do things. Something that is a constant source of frustration...

Can anyone help to settle some doubts I have here in our workshop regarding MDF and reducing its thickness? As far as I know, when MDF is manufactured it is subjected to a huge amount of pressure which creates an outer 'skin' of very dense fibres and as you work your way into the material, the...

Hi, I am making some small jewellery boxes in Ebony and Ash which have a silver inlay into the top. I am trying to source some very small hinges in a similar coloured material which I could use or modify. A flat plated hinge without holes would be ideal as I could then drill and pin where I...

We have some marquetry to do using ebony veneer which is quite coarse-grained and its being inlaid into Sycamore as the base veneer. After pressing, sanding the whole panel down produces horrible dirty staining in the grain of the Sycamore from the dust of the ebony. It won't blow out with...

Does anyone know of any companies/organisations who offer saw doctor training, sharpening and setting planers, sharpening bandsaw blades/circular saw blades etc, that sort of thing. I can find plenty offering training from a health and safety standpoint and obviously educational establishments...

I'm not really a kitchen fitter, I'm a furniture maker, but as you do, I have been fitting a kitchen for my Mum. It has a solid Oak worktop, in which I have cut a 90 degree butt and scribe joint. Normally, I would worry about movement gluing two parts like this together with opposing grain...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone may be able to help us with a problem we are having with our extraction system. Most places I have worked, the bags on the extraction unit seem to blow out and inflate when the unit is in operation. Our unit however seems to actually suck the plastic extraction...