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sorry more joinery... Our new house has a seventies staircase. Apparently it is hardwood (anyone recognise the wood?) and I'd rather work with it than replace if possible. I've got two plans, but they both resolve around the same first problem. Instead of connecting the bannister...

We are probably going to lay a hardwood floor in our living room. Homebase sell packs of solid "parawood" for around £12/m and this seems excellent value. We used it in our last house and it looked great. The boards are 120cm x 16cm and are 15mm deep and I was wondering if they could be used...

I'm at the very, very early stages of building a router table, well I've bought some of the components. One of them is the Dakota router plate insert from Rutlands. It doesn't come with fitting instructions so I'm hoping someone can help out with some questions I have. 1. The table comes with...

I'm very much at the beginners end of the talent spectrum and would like to run an idea by you before I get myself into trouble. I want to make some simple built in bookcases from 18mm maple veneered mdf. To add some interest, I was planning to make the face frame in walnut as a contrast - I've...

I was at the ITWE show on Saturday and one of the things high on my shopping list was a Trend Airshield. However the display model on the Trend stand was pretty tatty and the screen was slightly cloudy and scratched. It also wasn’t powered up and when I tried it on, I didn’t like it. I’ve seen...

There are some recurring topics and terms that come up in the forums that everyone seems to understand. Except me. Could someone please give me a hand with the following... What is a Galoot and where did the term come from? I think it is something to do with using older tools or doing things...

I'm currently devouring information about woodworking and was after the "Building Kitchen Cabinets" book by Jim Tolpin, around a tenner at Amazon. But then I saw a comment that the book is only good for face frame stuff and a bit American, etc. On the off chance, I thought I'd give my local...

Sadly, I've been reading the Festool catoglue recently. They have a CT range of dust extractors for normal duty and a CTM range for toxic particles. According to the catalogue, under German law oak and beech dust falls into the toxic category - I assume because of the particle size (didn't...

I've just made a bit of a buying mistake and would like some opinions. I've just bought a 110v dust extractor off e-bay instead of a 240v one I really want (that will teach me to read the descriptions more carefully). The extractor has got a power take off which is obviously also 110v. One...

Hi, Newbie forum member and newbie woodworker here although I managed to sneak my first ever post into another thread so at least that worry is out of the way! I went to the GoodTimber open day last weekend and came home with 2 coffee table sized pieces of 1in elm plus some 2in elm stock to make...