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I've seen your work before Mark, and I can tell you know what you're doing. But I have, since I first spotted them, always rather...

Sorry JSW. Decided not to share. After all, posting my infallible sharpening method could lead to some people wrongly disagreeing and...

Not impossible though, Jacob, to straighten a board's out of square edge with a plane iron that has a straight cutting edge, usually...

One of the things I experience with match planing that makes the job relatively slow is when after preparing the pair of edges ready for...

Me? Yes. Slainte.

Jacob, I do hope you spotted my contribution to that thread, no 59. I've tried it, match planing that is, and it's not a good technique...

None of the above. Just a head shake from me at the pointlessness and huge waste of time spent sharpening that some people think is an...

To some extent I both agree and disagree with Jacob's position. He said in post #28, "Basically Sawstop seems to be a big money-making...

Another source for a match might be Fiddes. It may be that you'd need to buy different finish colours and do some of your own custom...

I've got to agree with you there because the longer this thread goes on the weirder or more off the wall it seems to get. In fact...

Zebrano, radially sawn. Slainte.

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...