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:?: I am in a quandary as to what it is worth investing in a router table set up. I am a hobby woodworker and need a flexible set of kit. Here's my thinking and confusion so far: Having got to the desperate stage of needing to rout some long edge details to finish a project I turned to ebay...

Hi, I'm building a heavy duty workbench, the 4 legs are 135 x 76mm softwood (some spare nice wood I already had) and my plan is to mortice and tenon the lower rails through the legs for rigidity. I need mortices through the 135mm thickness (tenons are planned at 25 x 80mm). So, I've been testing...

I'm planning to make some oak ledged and braced doors for my home and am looking for a bit of advice. I have a few doors already, they were made by a joinery company and are close to perfect - they look great and remain perfectly true from season to season. What puzzles me is that I know the...

Hi, I recently bought a Record BS300 on Ebay. It looked to be in near perfect condition and I bought a selection of blades. I've had the devil's own job though, getting the correct tension into a 3/8" blade and reading several posts on this site I gathered that was normal. Last weekend I gave...

Hi, I got my first band saw at the weekend, a Record BS300 about 18 months old from Ebay. It seems to be in very good working order but the blade is 1/4" and with very fine teeth and this doesn't seem awfully well suited to cutting down air dried oak for various furniture sections. I've read...

In my fledgling enthusiasm I have embarked upon a nest of tables and started with the tops. They are circular and the largest is 21" diameter. I have used Japanese oak that has been air dried in an attached garage for 15 years - so pretty stable though moisture content uncertain. It certainly...

I'm looking for some timber selection advice for a garden workshop I've decided to build this summer, having had just about enough of clambering over the lawnmower and garden tools while I try to do woodwork in my current small garden shed. The project is going to be a bit of a challenge as I...

I'm looking to make a pair of garage doors out of oak and need advice on design. What I am wondering is whether to make stand alone frames and then board in traditional gate fashion or whether that is unnecessary work and I can just cramp the boarding together and fix ledges and bracing to the...

I'm making a rustic oak table that will spend its life in the garden. I have used waney edged boards and need to joint the top. I don't want an open joint so have planed the edges to a good fit and am now wondering what to use to give the joint stability. Do I cross tongue with oak, use dowels...