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Can anyone with an AGS 10 help me, please? I bought this beast off ebay and it was delivered today. The photos showed the riving knife was not mounted but I didn't think too much of that. But now after a quick look and a browse of the manual I think the whole mounting assembly is missing. The...

I have been posting progress in this thread Philip Hearsey style desk, and now I come to finishing this I don't want to wreck it. I planned to use Osmo Polyx, which I have never used. How far should I sand this? I have a metabo sander and disks to 120 (edit: just found Abranet disk - 240). I...

My HMS2600ci has just packed up while I was in the middle of thicknessing a batch of components. Symptom: When in thicknessing mode with no load the rollers and block are turning fine. When I feed the workpiece through it catches and is pulled forward but stops abruptly and the machine makes...

While the wood is settling for my current projects I thought I should start thinking about the design for the next one. I don't have a hope of coming-up with an "original" design. The best I can hope for is to take a design I like and add something. Even then I struggle.... I have knocked up...

SWMBO doesn't understand the need to have more than one project under way at a time. I've tried to explain but some fall on stony ground! I've knocked up this initial design for a small hall table that fits a wee space we have. The inspiration is a table by Mark Ripley that I saw at a craft...

Now I'm back in workshop mode I'll show you what I'm making. This little stool is by Mario Rodriguez from FWW Builing Small Projects. It 10 inches high, 10 wide and 14 in length - the legs are mortised into the top at 10 degrees with wedged tenons. I prepared the top to size 4 years ago! But...

It's been a while since I posted on (or even read this forum). But now I'm back and I'm glad to see things continue much as before I took my sabbatical. Two plus years ago I made the commitment to SWMBO to drop one or other of my obsessions for a while. My job regularly took me to West Africa...

I've been looking at clamp guides on Rutland and Axminster websites. I've also looked at the ones from Trend. There seems to be a great range of prices? Any recommendations or avoids?

Earlier this year I asked for help on this tuit.Thanks for all the great advice. I finally got around to working on it. I biscuited the 5 components together - though I'm not sure what I did with the photos :roll:. So they (may) follow. My overall idea is to plagiarise the designs of Philip...

SWMBO's going for a day of pampering on Sunday :lol: . So I want to fit my new SOSS hinges to my tool cabinet doors. Those of you with very loooong memories may remember I started this in 2007 or was it 2006? You can refresh your memories about far I got here Impressive? I think not. My life...

... what an varied bunch of students we were. In this picture you may recognise a certain David Charlesworth and at the troughs Michel Auriou and James Mursell (it is them honest, I've another picture showing their fronts - but without the dynamic Mr Boggs). We were all dying to know how the...

I plan to make the desk top illustrated above. The dimensions are 750mm by 450mm. I'll probably finish this to 35mm thick. The problem is I am short on timber. The 2 outer boards will need to be made fom 2 pieces each and joined end to end. I'm hoping that the long grain join to the centre...

Just ordered one of these beasties. http://www.petergalbertchairmaker.com/caliper.html You can see it in action here... http://chairnotes.blogspot.com/2008/03/roughing-out.html Will review when it arrives. Might provide the excuse I need to get back in the workshop! Phil

Just received this email from a friend. As you'll see he had a problem with an unsightly stain. He called for advice and I read to him from one of David Charlesworth's books. It seems to have done the trick.

Is it possible to draw an elipse in Sketchup (other than a circle, that is)? Just answered my own question by correctly spelling ellipse! http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39329

I plan to go to Cheltenham on Sunday 26th and Westonbirt on Bank Holiday Monday -27th. Anybodyelse going? I can't imagine SWMBO will accompany me to both (either?).

Well it plopped through the letter box today. First impressions are very good. Certainly a better READ than GWW. Adam Leitch's - Blanket Box project Chair making Setting Planer Knives A bit of David Savage. While I'd never take out a subscription to GWW I'll certainly consider doing so...

Swmbo wants me to make a coffee table. But she is a very picky customer :roll: I made this for my mother a few years ago based on a design in a mag (I forget which one) It was quite elegant. But swmbo want a shelf on her's. :roll: :roll: I knocked up this design to her spec - but I'm...

I posted the question in my tool cabinet project thread- but felt I'd probably get more answers from a post here.

After reading many of the threads on drills I started to look for an older quality drill. A few months ago, and with some advice from Scrit I found a good floor standing 1ph Meddings but the supplier sold it before I got there. I asked the supplier to keep an eye out for another and a week or...