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Purely for casual interest, this is a house stone wall being restored showing the new face and the erosion over the previous couple of hundred years. Ferdinand

Can I ask advice on this. I don't know whether these are worth doing anything with. We have a lot of high quality cabinet doors, like this dark one (from our kitchen): or this light one: When you dismantle them you get a nicely rebated panel, which is planked but of good quality: and...

Someone wants to give my hoop handles a home :-) Get ready. All dressed up and ready to go. My most reliable bit of kit of all - vintage 1910 - says it weighs nearly a Stone. Ouch. It's quite satisfying to save something from the bin, and I'm most grateful to the forum. The box is my...

It continues. I have about 50 solid hoop handles: Nearly all are solid brass. A couple of metallic (alu?) Small are 125mm centres x 35mm projection. Large are 150mm centres x 50mm projection. These are not all in new condition really, and are a bit heavy to post (large = 125g). Anyone...

I'll return to the other thread in a bit - just checking up on what I have lying around to act as "spacers" between drying timber beams. In the meantime I have another mad question. I also found a pair of 5m (OK 5 paces) x about 10"x10" (have not measured precisely yet) square Victorian...

As mentioned previously, I'm clearing out woodworking and other related items from my dad's house. The magical mystery tour continues. I thought that we had a pile of big oak beams somewhere, because the back door was made out of one a few years ago. They came out of a demolished Victorian...

As mentioned previously, I'm clearing out woodworking and other related items from my dad's house. Item 1 - Elu 1751 A1 Radial Arm Saw The saw is from around mid-1990s. One of the photos shows a "1995" which I think is the date. I've done enough digging on this to identify that this is the...

Hello all The mods have kindly agreed that I can ask the forum about, and perhaps sell, various bits of woodworking kit and other related items that I have to deal with after my dad has recently died. We're in nearly a "nothing thrown away since 1975" situation in a large house and...