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Hello. I've used cheap aluminium-oxide sanding belts bought locally on my 533x75mm Bosch belt sander. The lowest grit they had was 60, which i have used exclusively. Now i'm looking to stock up on some zirconia belts, but since shipping is pretty steap, i want to buy in bulk (like 50 belts)...

Hello. Can anyone recommend some cheap-ish sharpening stones, and recommend which grits to get? I live in Sweden, so it has to be an online store, that ships to the rest of the EU. I have a 2 sided Norton India oil stone (think it's 250 and 600 grit), a second hand Scheppach Tiger 2000...

Hi. Springs are often weak in the newer bandsaws. Maybe because manufacturers want to make sure that the spring yields before the frame does, which makes sense. However - sometimes when resawing thick stock, you want that ekstra tension, which should be within the frames abillities/tolerance...

So - a fellow from Lumberjocks.com asked me how i did the dust collection on my Wadkin AGS. So i made a short video for him. Since it took me a while to figure it out, i thought i might share it here as well, since others might be in the same situation. Misterfish was kind enough to help me out...

Ok - i've used plywood in construction, and i liked it because it's very tough and rigid. But these properties only apply when it's supported and fastned along it's entire edge - at least that's what i found to be true. Plywood is normally made by mounting a tree trunk on a gigantic lathe, that...

I have been unable to find any guidelines to the tolerances of runout on arbors and table saw blades. My arbor has a runout of about 8/100 of a mm (roughly 3/1000 of an inch) on the edge of the flange (diameter 75mm), which would translate to about 4-6 times that on the tips of a 10" blade...

Ok - i thought i'd made a steal when i bought this saw for £170, but damn - this machine has got my number. I thought i'd worked out all the problems but the rise and fall mechanism was very jagged. After 7 hours of fiddling i found out that there was a 0,2mm gap at the top between the slide...

Hey. I've been using the Trend 11 router for a while in a router table, and i'm satisfied with it (except the locking mechanism is on the opposite side to the speed adjustment, which is awkward, when mounted in the table). But i have gotten a good offer on a new DeWalt 625 for £120. I hear a...

Hello. Where i live, hardwood is not easy to come by, and when you find a dealer that will sell to private people, it costs a lot. So i've settled for reclaimed wood from old doors etc. But recently i bumped into an old guy, who was selling his farm and forrest, so he wanted to get rid of at...

Hello. i realize this topic has been mentioned before, but i'm still not sure ho to proceed. I just got a hold of a pretty beaten Wadkin ags10 (my second). Most of the saw can be fixed with new bolts and a good cleaning. But the Fence back slide bar is bent,and doesn't look like the original...

Hi everybody. Have any of you made Norm Abrams workshop hutch? I've been thinking about building the lower part of it (i like my upper cabinets to be wall mounted, and have doors), but in an elongated version. Thing is - in my part of the world, birch plywood is extremely expensive, so the...

Hi. I've got a pretty cheap thicknesser/planer, but it does ok. Trouble is, that the knife setting jig that was supposed to be in the package, was never there, since i bought it second hand. It's one of those standard things, that comes ith allmost every portable thicknesser. You know - a rod...

Hello friends. I have decided to get a mitre saw, and the DW777 seems to NEARLY fit the bill. Problem of course is the small blade, which in turn means a max 60mm cut depth. Not usually a problem, since the main job it should do is cross cutting regular stock and sheets. But for the odd panel...

Hi. Any of you Wadkin owners have the same problem as me, when setting up the Table on the ags10. The old american Delta unisaw had the bolts for fitting the top to the saw on the OUTSIDE of the saw. On the Wadkin however, the bolt are buried inside the saw cabinet, which makes them very...

Hello woodworking friends. I've been offered an older Wadkin BRA 14" radial arm saw for 250£. Does anyone have any experience with this? I've seen all episodes (i think) of New Yankee Workshop, so i have a basic idea what a radial arm can do, but i don't have any first hand experience. I have...

First of all - pardon my English – I am from Denmark, so bare with me. I found a Wadkin AGS 10 for £170 - very dirty, and with some rust on the table, but otherwise perfect, and fitted with the long right hand extra table. Only drawback is, that the arbor is 20mm and i really like dado sets...

Hi. I relatively new here, and not english, so excuse any misspelling. I'm working on an decent dust collection system for my shop, but money is an issue (isn't that always the case :-) ). Some tools, like table saws and planers need a large airflow, and are usually fitted with a 100mm air...

Hello. I'm new to this forum, and new to fine woodworking. I am from Denmark, but i now live in Sweden, where i've build my own house. I wanted to get into more delicate woodworking, so i decided to build a 35m2 stand alone insulated workshop as well, which i now nearing it's completion. I...