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Here's the wet cill before full penetrative.(oh err)

To insure against rot waterlogged I'm gonna show how to impregnate the cill with epoxy(clear penetrative epoxy sealer) first finish shaping and sanding the cill and vac the dust off. Mix the epoxy 1 to 1 (more than you think as it disappears) then liberally apply on to the item. Leave it the...

Yes I no longer sharpen and use shark blades now.

Bandsaw blades make amazing blades for these. Cut em Drill em an use em!

Love everything about this but the price! Does anyone have real world experience of using this gear?

Has anyone built matthias tilting router table? Seems a great idea but most of the interesting stuff happens at 45 degrees generally.also the gears seem a bridge to far and are a bit off-putting.

BTW the vintage compass plane worked OK. It just didn't smooth the surface enough only having limited bearing. The stanlel ones must be superior in that respect. The ward iron was super.

I always figure its like a jigsaw and when you get everything right boom look at that it's just the same. As oppose to imposing your style window on the house. Which ventrolla did with dire consequences. Never seen such poor work.

Just to reflect on this(I haven't fitted it yet) the scary bit before doing it was pattern cutting on the spindle and moulding on the ring fence. But these turned out to be straightforward operations on the whole. The hard bit was getting all the aspects in the right places. Also the sizes of...

I made a curved base for the belt sander to allow the sanding of the inside curves which worked really well.

The casements were relatively straightforward if not quite time consuming to make in particular the 6 pane ones. I ended up using that cogged joint on the glazing bars. These needed a tunnel to stop them chattering as there quite small. The importance of size and marking can't be overestimated...

Here's a video of the frame mostly complete. Next it's all the casements. Which thankfully are straight!

Now in my poor demented mind having done what I considered to be the "hard bit" I thought that was easy of course I was nowhere near half complete. I began to machine up the straight verticals the outside ones were an interesting shape derived from the angle the bay sat in relation to the wall...

So I'd bandsawn these slightly oversize so what remains was to pattern cut the large chunks on the spindle. I use an 80mm spiral cutter from wealden with a bearing. This turned out to be fairly straightforward and passed without issue but I was so busy focusing I didn't take any snaps! I did get...

The first pictures shows the half template set up to lines squared on on my bench at 7 foot(overall width) 3 foot 6 inch(overall width of half cill) And probably the most important measure 325mm for the depth of the chord this was marked on the centreline. It's important because it's the...

When selecting redwood for normal windows and doors I select the deals that are mostly heartwood and those can often have pith unfortunately this wasn't possible as I would be using the whole width. Normally I'd only be using half(so could saw down the pith and lose it when planing) having the...

Anyone whose made old windows knows the timber sizes can be very large. For instance the depth of the frame section was 3 1/4 inch which requires 4×9 sections for the outside frame uprights(I ended up using 3×9 and gluing a 22mm bit on as 4×9 isn't the easiest section to find ) The head and...

The first photo is the templates or more accurately half templates as the window horizontals were split into 2 parts centrally. The second photo shows sections of the frame members. The cutouts in the back of the frame members are to locate staff beads used as a water bar behind the casements...

Now the radius was basically 9 foot and circular work always requires accurate patterns to be made and I rigged up a long router compass to make the pair of patterns one for the head/transom(3 1/4)and a wider one for the cill (6 1/4) I normally drill a 30mm hole and use a guide Bush.

Thought I detail the reproduction of an 1900 bow window. It's an odd beast as it's the only window in the house that's like this and was a show window. Most other windows were venetian sashes with a single 45 degree bay. It was basically a flawed design having a lead roof that didn't protrude...