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Hi wonder if anyone can help me, I've had a dig about on the search here and I can't find anything related, i'm moving out to the states soon with work and was just wondering if I can take my makita (10.8V and 18V) cordless drills and drivers out there with me? I suppose the questions are...

Hey, After making several disturbing trips to the various out of town furniture outlets available these days I am somewhat stunned not only by the incredibly poor construction of bedroom furniture but also the unbelievable prices they are asking people to pay for this tat. Ok rant over...

Hi, I'm in the middle of converting my garage to a workshop and my attention has just turned to the roof, at the moment it's just bare joists so in a bid to make it airtight and warm I'm planning to put isolation between the joist and then cover it in a layer of thick plastic to seal it and...

I was just about to wonder down the tip today with a few bags of wood shavings from the latest project when I started thinking about recycling, and whether or not I could use them on the compose heap. Has anyone tried this? Do they rot down fast enough or do they just make a mess of otherwise...

Hey guys, Once again it's stupid question time, but if you don't ask the stupid questions you just end up doing stupid things. So my hand tool adventure continues, I'm now pretty happy with my plane blades, so I thought I'd move on and do some slightly more advanced planing, first stop I...

Hi Guys, Wonder if you can give me a bit of advice, after much hard work and a fair bit of swearing I've finally finished my deck project. It's made from yellow balau and once completed I finished it off with ronseal clear deck sealer. When it was done it looked fabulous, however after just a...

Not sure if this is exactly the right area for this question but here goes anyway. Wonder if anyone can help me out, I have a few planes now that I'm trying to tune/fettle/do up and generally try to make them look nice. They all have nice rosewood handles but are covered in some god awful...

Wonder if anyone can help me, I've recently purchased a hock blade for my No7, plus a couple of LN planes (All A2 blades). I've been reading the DC books as well so I thought I'd get myself some waterstones to sharpen them up on. So a quick call to Axminster and I am now the proud owner of 250...

Just wondered if any of you guys can help me with a small dilemma I'm having, I need a new planer/thicknesser and have been looking at the HMS 260ci which i believe is generally hailed as a superb machine. However, I've recently been drawn to the Jet 54A, probably coupled with a Axminster CT330...