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I have gouges made by both. Addis are always good, and are finer. Marples are good but chunky. I would push an Addis and whack a Marples!

Have you got an Open Studios in your area or town? If you have, it might be a good route. You are in control of your prices, you get 100% of what you take, and it enables you to make relationships with potential clients, who may buy from you then and there, or in 5 years time, or who may tell...

Hi Jason, could you buy the thickest construction veneer and glue it back together in a vacuum press? Not sure how it would work out pricewise. Pete

A simple way would be to use shutter bars. They would hold the doors in line with no need for top and bottom stops.

Hi Ralph, they come up on ebay quite often if you're prepared to wait...........

I have a Swiss Champ- the biggest as far as I know. Not the one with a built in clock- that would be ridiculous! I was given it for my 40th birthday and I have used it pretty much every day since. I've had a few scrapes from carrying it as I generally forget it's in my pocket. By far the most...

I had a similar problem- my last workshop had the machine shop on the ground floor and the hand shop on a mezzanine. I thought about hoists etc but eventually bought an old forklift truck. It was perfect- didn't cost a lot, and was much more useful than a fixed hoist. With a fixed hoist, if...

I can tell you that it's not impossible- I have a mafell saw which can use festool tracks as well as mafell. The dewalt would have to have that extra groove in its base.

As has been said above, the point of T&G is to have a lot of fairly narrow boards that are linked in one plane but not in others, so they can do their own thing. You may fit them nicely to a groove when they're fresh out of the thicknesser, but the moment they get a bit of water on them some of...

Totes agree. It's asking a lot of timber that's outdoors to slide smoothly in a groove. OK for 100mm but a big ask for 1000mm. It's likely that rather than slide in the grooves, it will catch somewhere and the panel will split somewhere.

I have fitted hundreds of probox drawers and have never had one fail. 12mm is fine for a dovetailed drawer, maybe a bit OTT- lots of antique ones which have lasted hundreds of years have 1/4" linings.

Do your utmost to avoid having a macerator in the shower room. They are the pits. We had one, and eventually had to put in conventional drainage at great cost and much less neatly than it could have been.

My guess would be greenheart. I am pretty sure it isn't lignum as it has a very pronounced grain and there is a big difference between heart and sapwood

Teak has a very distinctive smell- a bit like the inside of an old medicine chest. It also feels waxy when fresh planed.

It's hard to say what with all the varnish etc, but it doesn't scream teak to me. Someone on here will ask you for a photo of the endgrain!

I have been a member of Cambridge Open Studios for 30 years off and on, and it has been great for me. It's 4 weekends in July- you can do as many or as few as you want. For the rest of the year I work strictly to commission, but for COS I make lots of small things, often from offcuts, plus a...

I use reverse (why do we call it that? It's just spinning the other way) about 1/4 of the time. One situation you didn't mention is when you are using a glue joint cutter and one face of the workpiece is unusable or the pieces are different thicknesses. You can mould one side of each joint with...

I have a Richard Raffan bowl. I don't know what it's finished with but whatever it is is quite durable. I was taught to polish turnings with beeswax and friction at school, 50 odd years ago. If you don't have a live centre, beeswax is the best thing to lubricate a fixed one.

I got some from eBay which were a lot cheaper. Sadly, they were a little bit too wide and so on the narrow setting, they would often split the workpiece. On the wide setting, they were fine. But as Jerome says above, probably better to get the proper ones.

I used to make cabinets for Boothroyd Stewart-Meridian. They were made from birch ply with aluminium cores and were VERY technical! It was a great job and I was very sad when they moved production to Yorkshire (I think) https://www.meridian-audio.com/products/loudspeakers/flagship/dsp8000-xe/