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I'm sure that everyone else has know about them for ages, but I've only recently come across Dave Stanton's dog locks for MFT tables. I was going to order a pair, but I use Evolution tracks on my MFT instead of Festool ones (much cheaper!) and they have T-slots facing down instead of up. So...

I've just finished off two chairs and a stool. I'm still working on the designs of these, this is the second iteration of the high back chair and stool, and the third iteration of the side chair. I'd be very interested in any criticism of the designs, as I am getting happier with them, but...

So, I ended up with a spare day, Christmas shopping done and everything ready early. I needed a project. One I could do quickly! Ever since reading Chris Schwarz's wonderful Anarchist's Design Book, I have meant to try out something along the lines of his Boarded Bookshelf. I don't need more...

So, I had a bit of poplar and hickory left over from another project and I thought I'd knock up a quick high stool for the kitchen. The legs and spindles are currently finished with 3 coats of danish oil and a couple of coats of Colron Beeswax finish over the top. I have noticed though that...

Well, its been a very, very, very long time since my last post, but I've recently started to get back into woodwork, so I thought I'd share my latest project. After reading about low roman workbenches on the Lost Art Press blog (https://blog.lostartpress.com/2016/08/06/a-well-oiled-roman/) I...

I've been working through "Woodturning: a foundation course" and done lots of practising on softwood so, I thought it was time to try actually making something out of hardwood. My first attempt at something that wasn't a cylinder of pine is this goblet made out of Sycamore: The outside turned...

I've borrowed a woodturning lathe for a couple of weeks and am slowly working my way through Woodworking: A Foundation Course. I never realised that turning was so much fun! I think I feel an addiction coming on! However I'm having difficulty finding a supplier for hardwood blanks in my area...

I've come across a couple of people on the internet muttering about how great scrapers are for dealing with difficult grain or just for normal smoothing. I thought I'd see what the fuss was all about and I knocked up a quick scraper out of an old (hardpoint) tenon saw blade burnished with a...

I've eventually made s start on restoring the tools I bought last weekend. Well, maybe not restoring but at least making them usable! First up is a rusty little eggbeater that I can't identify. It all came apart easily with WD40, just requiring the mole grips to loosen the chuck. All the small...

Down at the New Forest Car Boot Sale it appeared to by Tool Day! It seened as though every other stall had a box of rusty tools to pick through - which was great fun (even if the other half started moaning at me - she got her own back on the plant stalls though :) ). I was very restrained and...

I manage to snag a lovely old Stanley 78 rebate plane today at the car boot sale for £2.50. Unfortunately it is missing both fences (hence the price). Now, I have no problem making up a couple of fences (I need an excuse to do a bit of metalwork again) but I can't find any reference to what...

I have a hate-hate relationship with my electric router. I seem to spend ages setting it up for the worlds most simple jobs and I never get the result I'm after - it falls off the end of the wood or somehow seems to lose it's setting halfway through a cut and the last half comes out deeper than...

As a newbie, I hope no-one minds me posting a WIP thread in here. I've just moved house and need some new furniture. Having had my wallet shocked by the price of decent hardwood furniture I thought I'd try making some. Now, I haven't done any woodwork since I was a boy messing around in my...

I've been reading this fantastic forum for a month or so now and wondered if I could intrude and ask a (hopefully simple) question. I'm about to start work on building a chest out of oak, which is going to require a fair bit of gluing and smoothing boards. I'm planning on using a Record No 5...