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After finding this solid dry piece of beech on the local free ads a couple of years ago, measuring 8 foot x 2.2 foot x 2 inch's for £20.00 it has sat in my fathers farm store lucky not to be cut up and used for fire wood. i am dead out of ideas of how i can use this to it's maximum potential...

Perhaps a sightly different electrical question, and more for any electrical engineers. I have a boiler it had blown its circuit board. the supply is on a plug which goes into a two gang socket point the other socket is plugged into a tumble drier. when the tumble drier is turned on or off i...

hi, would anyone be able to point me in the right direction to a manual / instructions for a multistar duplex chuck, i don`t own this chuck but a friend has one and has forgotten how it works. i`ve done the usual googling to no avail. thanks, mark.

after a search on the forum with little mentioned about brook planes i thought i would do a small show and tell (mini review) of the no7 brook jointer. i bought both a the no7 brook plane and a no80 stanley scraper plane on ebay a week ago as i have been looking for a good condition...

i went to school with this guy http://www.c90adventures.co.uk/, he is driving a honda c90 12000 miles back from asia it`s some kind of epic top gear style trip, watch the video of him firing a m16 machine gun from his bike, cant believe the Cambodian army let him do it. thought he deserved as...

not having a great day in the workshop, got my Axminster MB9020 planner in may 2010 started it up for the first time in a while today and it was working fine for 2 - 3 min`s then it cut out getting a burning smell from the motor its never had a lot of use probably just over a hour or two, will...

it isn`t pretty and i`m not going to pretend it is, however today i finished a bu plane project with a £10 no4 chinese copy and a sorby blade. total cost about £12 and 1 hour work. work as follows- - grind back lugs on base where frog sits. - weld frog at 15 degree angle on base. - cut back...

of hallamshire craft tools, trago mills stocked a range of their turning tools recently and i saw a large roughing gouge on the shelf (possibly 2") however on return they had sold out and they are unsure when they are re-stocking. after a google i haven`t found much, do they trade / sell under a...

thought i would share this one, as many of you (turners especially) seem to be keen photographers, so after 1/2 hour in the freezing cold tonight i finally managed to get a good one, chuffed to bits with it.

so after some user comments on the buying advice section of the forum regarding 2tpi bandsaw blades with little response i thought stuff it i`ll get both, getting the 3tpi extra set and the 2tpi bandsaw blades from ian @ tuffsaws . today i fitted the 2tpi to my 352 on the lower speed, all i can...

so after finally getting the startrite`s (352) low speed sorted i`m now thinking of getting some sort of 2/3 tpi rip blade for cutting thick/wet stock, after talking to ian at tuff saws (top chap btw highly recommended) a few months ago he said they were developing `wet` wood bands and would be...

finally got around to making the winter workshop heater, tools to build; a drill and a 8mm metal bit, 8 inch angle grinder, a welder. after 1/2 a hour i come up with this (some very dodgy welding not shown in detail #-o ) tested last night (out side) - worked fine, so i think i`ll now move on...

last year around this time whilst out on walks i collected a quantity of acorns, beech , chestnut seeds. a winter with the seeds in the fridge, i then planted the seeds which had germinated in the spring, i am now left with 6 small oaks from the project. does anyone else do this year in year...

has anyone else noticed when trying to snipe items on ebay that if you are watching the "live" place bid section once you have entered the bid on the item page it will then count down the time and keep a live price update, i put a bid in at 5 seconds left on a stanley 45 plane only to find that...

hi all, been playing with sketchup a bit more lately, i`ve drawn a welsh dresser from a copy of the woodworker, march 1952 issue. its described as a early 18th century welsh dresser in oak. link - http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ ... c0248039ba cheers, mark.

just got back from a 8 hour trip from two a&e`s the last at derriford in plymouth as they have a hand & plastic dept. being a clever clogs i`ve managed to put a 1" gouge through my left thumb nail ant the skin underneath. properly annoyed with doing it, always very carefull with machinery but...

so on a rainy week off what better to do then to go tool hunting :D hatherleigh market in mid devon was my destination of choice today, with a sale of general household effects every tuesday i figured a few tools might be lurking beneath the rubbish. also with the usual market stalls i knew...

Hi all, i have a startrite 352 bandsaw which i bought used around 6 months ago. the bandsaw originally had a 750w single phase motor however at some point in its life the previous owner replaced the motor with a axminster 240v 1100w 4 pole motor (http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-ax ...

hi everyone so i`ve finally got around to building the workbench out of some solid idigbo railway sleepers which i picked up from a agriculture merchants. i`ll try and take as many piccys as i can. the style of the bench i`m going for is the traditional cabinetmakers bench with a table top of...

whilst rummaging through a box of junk at my local car boot sale i came across a spokeshave, it has macrome stamped on the cap. after some goggling all i can fine on macrome is that they hardened drill bits back in the 50s. at a cost of a fiver with 4 f-clamps thrown in i took it home and...