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I wouldn't bother unless it's a real bargain. Festool tend to be overhyped and overpriced. If all you need is an amateur level...

In 3026 years life could be really good, or maybe really bad. Whatever (shrug of shoulders) ... it's bound to be 5050.

That pattern of bed fitting for attaching side rails to headboards and footboards I have only ever seen for sale in the USA, never in...

B&Q do some, at varying widths including 750 mm. Or you could simply put a few tiles of some sort on the wall. That's what we have and...

I suspect it's not a wind-up, but more along the lines of an unlikely to be achieved but probably harmless dream. At this forum...

Use a Ticking Stick methodology. Slainte.

The rounders I used were supplied by the guy I mentioned for a four or five day long course he ran at the college where I studied for my...

I don't believe I met him, so not a question specifically for me I'd say. However, the rounders look like ones I used some forty plus...

Being that small I can't hazard a decent guess. Powder post beetle grub exit holes are usually about 1.5 mm diameter, so even that's a...

Common furniture beetle exit holes are generally 2 - 3 mm in diameter. Those look about the right size, so that's a possibility. As...

It's no good trying to shoehorn Nick_'s wood into anything that resembles an oak of any kind. The stuff in post #1 is not an oak, and...

Every now and then at various timber merchants I've come across thin boards of various wood species usually 10 - 15 mm thick and...

It's true that sapwood has the most nutrients that the grubs of insects such as common furniture beetle, powder post beetle, and so on...

Technically, there's no good reason to not use the sapwood for the purpose you describe, i.e., drawer bottoms. However, Cedar of Lebanon...

I went to a cafe the other day, ordered my food and sat at a table already occupied by another guy. We got chatting and I discovered he...