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I threw away the blade that came in one of those cheap Record planes sold about 25 years ago. It could be got sharp quite quickly but...

Cascamite left my shed decades ago. The powder seemed to go "off" with time, resulting in a glue paste that wouldn't gel fully but...

Some photos, showing the various ways and means of packing in enormous numbers of tools into one small room such that you know where...

First rule - organise a place for everything then keep everything in its place, even as you work. (Put a tool back in its place as you...

If the colour will suit or you're going to paint them, iroko cills are likely to be the most resilient as the stuff seems impervious to...

To be fair, isn't this a problem with a vast range of goods made just about everywhere. I don't think it was the Chinese who invented...

If I wuz starting again today at the cabinetmaking I'd buy Ashley Iles chisels in preference to any others. Old tool qualities reborn...

Ashley Iles has a good service that will probably allow you to ask for and get different handles for your chisels than the standard put...

Its not easy to find YouTube presenters who convey their subject matter well rather than their often grating personalities. Many also...

Hello Winchy. Have you made any decisions about what style of woodworking you're going to begin with and what particular items you'll...

Perhaps the best way to buy (ready-built or a series of components to make oneself) should be determined by a similar syndrome as that...

....Or maybe, from a previous but recent, age: "The Japanese Effect". Once we Blighters named ourselves "workshop of the world" 'cos we...

It's a clever tin, that. The name is, in this day & age, somewhat worrying. In what "chemic" is the grit suspended? Does it cause one...

That's a fine, beautiful and meticulously-made item. Even the brass screws are clocked. Have three buckets of admiration from me...

Strewfthuh! That is very hoary. I believe your chestnut be spalted now to the point of punkiness! When's your birfday? I might buy...