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Yes, have tried to eek out a project from too little stock and ended up having to claim the extra piece of contrasting timber is a...

Who else has had days like this, where a project just won't come together, or a mistake has put a spanner in the works? Here, this is...

Sorry to lower the tone/standard but, I made a frog. Not hardwood as the book suggests but some nice PAR redwood with plenty of rings...

I Echo this. We ( Me ) need a project thread with step-by-step photos. :)

I’d not seen that machine before so made me do some googling. I have a Sedgwick 571 morticer and it will cut 19mm mortises in seasoned...

Grind the W off and you have a Lucas stamp. Been watching eBay for a while to see if one comes up that I can manipulate to my name or...

The more TPI the better the surface finish but the harder the saw has to work and the slower the cut. I've settled on a 40tooth Freud...

I have a wooden worktop in my utility and even with only occasional sink use the area around the sink needs some maintenance every year...

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...