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With TurboCAD, which is what I use, you can either select a component, in which case you get its dimensions at the bottom of the screen, or you use one of the several dimension tools which will give rads, angles, lengths etc. I usually do a dimensioned printout or quick sketch of what I need at...

I haven't made a rod since I started using CAD. Get a cheap 2D program and it will change your (working) life!

Blum and Grass do cranked hinges which is what you are after. They are a bit more expensive than standard overlay hinges. They are also bulkier which you need to bear in mind if you are having drawers behind doors or suchlike. https://www.hafele.co.uk/en/product/con ... 7&PDP=true...

I have a single phase AGS/p. It's a bit gutless- it can cut out several times while sawing a bit of 4" oak.

I did this in my workshop about 6 years ago. It was an old builders store with the roughest of rough-cast floors. I went all over it with a diamond cup disc on my angle grinder, to take off the sharp bits, then covered the whole floor with sand to even out the many dips. then covered with black...

I have had this for about 20 years and for the whole time I have had it, the rise and fall has been very hard work- a two-handed job involving some grunting. There's no greasing point mentioned in the manual. Any ideas? It's one of the newer models, not the classic AGS that most posts on this...

I've made some commercial display cabinets from OSB and while you can't get a fantastic finish by sanding, you can certainly improve it greatly. I sanded it on a pad sander, then finished with three coats of acrylic varnish, cutting back between coats. I wouldn't bother sanding birch ply but...

I do a lot of stopped grooving on the spindle and always drop it in. If it's a 6mm groove and not too deep, it's not too tricky especially if you use grippy gloves. If it's a bit too much, just set up a starting stop as well as an end stop. Hope the furniture making goes well! Pete

Ridgeons also have a cutting service. I'm not sure how accurate though..

Hi Rob, if I understand you right, one of the boards gets thinner about half way down? I have had this happen when the workpiece has got twisted while going through the thicknesser, and ridden up over one of the side channels of the thicknesser bed. As it is pulled through, it gets pretty messed...

Hi Brett, I've had problems with a part of my pad sander which has cracked a couple of times. I found out the hard way that welding is not the solution. The best seems to be gas brazing. It's harder to find someone to do it, but well worth it. Good luck with the AGS! Pete

I've used it to make gates. It's durable and relatively cheap, and paints quite well. I agree with you about the splinters though!

This is my hardest woodwork joint. It takes three days to do.

It's nice- close grained and heavy. The colour is a bit like sycamore with some colour in the centre. Finishes well. Enjoy!

I use the spring clamps which you put on with a special pair of pliers. If it's a solid wood, unpainted piece I stick scraps of timber next to the joint to protect it. You can get a surprising amount of force to bear on a joint, and can keep adding clamps until they run out. The trouble with...

I've had the same trouble with my Festool extractors over the years. It's a problem with the motherboard or switch and usually costs about £100 to fix. I've just had to retire my oldest one as the parts are no longer available

As an afterthought, are you using a following cutter on your template? If so, are the cutter and the bearing exactly the same diameter?

I've designed a lot of pieces to be made on a CNC by people who do an awful lot of it, and they always say that when 2 pieces are going to fit into one another, you should make a .1mm gap. This is true for dry or glue joints. I think the glue is a bit of a sideshow here. If it fits dry, it will...

Southern yellow pine is horrible to work by hand. The winter grain is very hard, and the summer grain is very soft. The first time I used it, it was to make an umbrella for a Sadolin advert. I recommended it to the client as it had a very distinct grain which would show up well in the pics. I...

Maxcut is fine- very easy to learn and quite versatile. You can use up offcuts by entering them in the materials list, named "offcut 1" etc, then optimising for that size, choosing the best diagram, deleting the items that appear on that diagram, then optimising with offcut 2, and so on. There...