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thanks for the link paul and the input guys Will try a shoe repair shop for the leather. or maybe find an old belt. Have noticed that Classic handtools sell leather strops but they are only 50mm wide. Surely they have to be as wide as the blade you're sharpening. The blade on my no 80 is 2.5...

Hi there Been looking at Paul Chapman's great guide to sharpening a no 80 scraper. Getting on well but really could do with trying out a leather strop along with an abrasive compound. Thing is where on earth do I get some Jeweller's rouge from? and also.......... Where can I get some...

Hi there Been using my Dewalt 625EK recently and I'm getting really fed up with the poor dust extraction. So much so I'm thinking about ditching it and getting another. When the guide bush is being used there are too many big holes in it for the suction to be concentrated around the cutter...

Thanks for the link Mr Chapman As a newbie to scrapers which burnisher would you recommend. Will any old burnisher from Axminster do or is one in particular better than the others? Jacko

will try that mark many thanks

Hi there You lot have convinced me to buy a no 80 scraper - something like this http://www.axminster.co.uk/product-Veritas-Cabinet-Scraper-788349.htm Can I use a jig to sharpen the blade. I have a Tormek which I use for sharpening chisels and planes ......... and the Veritas MK 2 honing...

thing is this happens when I use a router on a festool guide rail cutting tenons. I'm sure i've experienced it on router tables cutting tenons aswell.

I have this problem with my dewalt router - the one I use in the sled for flattening tabletops and also my festool router which I use with the MFT and guide rail for cutting tenons on long rails. I wonder if it is to do with climb cuts and normal cuts. With the sled I rout away from where I'm...

thanks for all the advice Danny I'm out of Notts for a few weeks - will PM you when I get back. Looks like its a unanimous recommendation that I use a scraper so I guess I'd be a fool to try something else. Thanks for that. The bridge or sled that I'm sitting the router on is made from...

cheers danny I would prefer to use a handplane though either a jack or a smoother. Which would be best? I've got nothing against scrapers I just think that if I get a jack or a smoother I'll be able to use it for lots of other things. Jack

Hellow there! Just flattend a couple of slightly cupped dining table tops using this method http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/library/makingitplane.pdf Its a fantastic method and very fast and very accurate. The only downside is that there are lines of marks where the router cutter has...

thanks ed I'll have a look at that doc

how much of the weight of a planer thickness does the bed roughly account for? Half, quarter? Another option would be to go for a seperates as these are quite a bit lighter. Ed - did you have to reinforce your joists, get an engineer to do some calcs, or did you just hope for the best?

Hi I've been wanting to get a planer thicknesser for a while now. I have a budget of up to a grand but don't mind spending a bit more I have to. The garage I use for my workshop is fairly small and there's no room left. However, there is a loft area above it. The joists are a decent size...

anyone elseo make anything big?

That is great - surely this kind of joinery will have the same or more long grain to long grain glueing area than "old fashioned" tenon joinery. 4 tenons x 2 sides x 25mm long x 25 wide of gluing surface is 5000 square mm of gluing surface. You'd have to make one conventional tenon of 50 x...

I think it would be great if this DIDN'T turn into a bum/bun/handbag fight and we could keep things as factual as possible. e.g. people giving example of stuff they've actually made using the domino and how the project is standing up.

Hello all I've been thinking about getting a Festool Domino. I posted a topic a few weeks ago asking if members thought if it was suitable for chair joinery. The answer was a unanimous YES. Thing is the loose tenons you'd use with the domino system are a similar size to the integral or loose...

many many thanks just ordered a few of the books recommended. Should find what I need in them!! Ta, Jack

Hello there I want to make a table to go in the entrance hall in our house. It will be fairly small and will have a single drawer just under the table top (to put keys in and wife's lipsticks probably!). My question in is there a book which has plans to build this kind of thing or something...