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Quick update: I 'released' the door from purgatory and it seems to have worked! The gap is minimal, and I reckon I can adjust the stop...

£100/cuft sounds reasonable to me, that assumes most of the timber in the board is useable. Also from a 25mm board you'll likely only...

I think any sort of paint sprayer etc will supply too large a volume. Those lab squirty bottles will be doing a few ml at a time, paint...

Motors often have a start capacitor and a run capacitor, a centrifugal switch drops the start capacitor out of the circuit once the...

The final steps were trimming the shoulders of the legs, and shaping the grip. I had the idea of carving the opening into a moon shape...

It’s AI in a nutshell. Quick, seems sensible from a distance, looks nice initially, but on closer inspection is full of errors/nonsense.

Sound insulation is about mass and air paths. Rockwool better than glass wool as it’s denser. If you have open air paths, gaps, this...

And I was just typing we have an ongoing thread about sharpening and one about SawStop/push sticks and then someone goes and mentions...

At least you'll have good excraction with the excractor, the vacuon, the vacuor and the vacuom.

They are really keen prices! Was a yard south of me that used (2019/20) to have similar prices of £25-35/cuft now they are £50-£60 for...

To err is human. Other safety systems that competent persons should never need, but you’d be daft to go without. - seatbelts -...

A bit of a heresy on a woodworking forum. Is your intention to: save money - fully made panel door can be bought from ~£30. They will...

Buying timber from the general public rather than a yard, where I’d have some comeback if it turned out rubbish, I’d be looking to pay...

Seems a little conservative as they are 75mm thick and fairly large boards but am ready to be corrected .

Did your boards expand?(or more correctly did you leave sufficient gap on the t and g?) Ive found its very hard to stop cupping on slash...