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The burglary was traumatic, 30yrs of accumulated hand tools, clamps and power tools gone over night from my garage. Thought I was secure but some building work on an extension meant they had forced a temporary gate into my garden and broke the lock on the pedestrian garden door. No CCTV or name...

This saw was designed to work with the Triton Workstations (Mk3 and 2000). Now discontinued, I bought it to make my own compact table saw solution but graduated to a bigger workshop and proper table saw before it was ever used. Been in my loft for last £25yrs! Ideal if you are looking to extend...

Been thinking about mortice and tenon joints A while ago Brian Boggs spoke about developing his tapered tenon joint (you can read a bit about it here) At the time the mention of custom made router bits put me off, but I recently noticed that Wealdon do have 2.5deg tapered bit in their standard...

I got this attachment with my lathe. The lathe cleaned up very nicely and is now in regular use, but the mortice attachment has sat in a corner for too long. As I now need that corner, I am hoping someone else might be interested in taking it on.....what I really want is a 12" tool rest for the...

Dear Turners, I am not a great or devoted turner, but I make a fair number of chairs and can see value in having spindle turning in my skill set. I was attempting to do that with a Nutool NWL37-4 (donated by a friend), that seemed ideal for turning 18" legs and stretchers. However I was getting...

I have a fairly old Hitachi M12V router that has been a great workhorse, however in the last year it has become temperamental and won't start till it has sat in front of my fan heater for a couple of minutes. This wasn't so bad during the winter but not so great now it is summer! It is kept in...

Help! Like may (I believe) I thought I had found a simple solution to all my furniture finishing needs in Osmo Poly-x Oil. However I have two chairs in my kitchen made with Walnut seats, and the one I made before discovering Osmo is finished in my version of a 'Maloof' tung/linseed/poly mix...

I hope you will forgive this plug, but I have just heard that I am currently the only person to have signed up for his course at the end of April (Wed 30th April - Sun 4th May) which now might be cancelled if another taker or two are not found. If interested, please have a look here...

A little advice please I have had a benchtop Axminster pillar drill for 10+ years - the fore runner of the Axminster WD16SB Bench Pillar Drill I think. However any drill has always had a distinct wobble, that does nothing for accuracy and makes drilling large holes slightly alarming due to...

Hi all, I am planning to make a small kitchen table to fit in my Mum's new kitchen. The spec was a table about 24" wide by 50" long and 30" ht with a pine top (she wants a scrubbed finish, I think I will want to oil it - but that discussion can come later!) The feature is going to be curved...