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Just some simple blocks for hand-sanding. I've got one I bought many years ago, but it's impossible to get the sandpaper under enough tension. I saw this design on a video sometime a long, long time ago and making some has been on my list for ages. I was casting around for something to do and...

With a couple of brass stamps (so you can alternate) and a log burner to heat the one you're not using up, you could burn the mark into the wood quite quickly. Stamping with hammer / press force would almost certainly need a hardened steel stamp; the brass won't last long.

My other half ordered some wool for a crochet pattern but then realised she didn't have a hook of the right size. I thought I'd have a go... It's made out of an offcut of American black walnut. The outer diameter was made with a dowel plate; I then put it in the metal lathe and turned the...

But it will mean that wherever I drive, there won't be any other traffic on the roads, right? :LOL:

I'm sure more experienced people will have better ideas, but my approach would be to spend some time getting one piece exactly right and then use a router with a bearing guided bit to copy the shape of the first one (after sticking the first one to another one with some double-sided tape or...

If that question is about my box, then I made it up as I went along. Dimensions for the box were dictated by the length of the piece of walnut I had left and the width of the piece of maple I had left (combined with a desire to get it to be a suitable size for storing hand warmers). I had a...

No, I cheated on that bit. I couldn't think of a way of doing it neatly with hand tools so I resorted to a router for that. I had no spare maple, so I really didn't want to mess it up by slipping with a chisel! I used a 10 mm end mill (as I didn't have an appropriate sized router bit) in the...

My other half has just got back into knitting and wanted a Cedar of Lebanon lined box to store some woollen hand warmers to help protect them from carpet moths. This is only my second attempt at a box (it's much bigger than the last one too) and a few things didn't go according to plan, but...

My attitude with this is that woodworking & metalworking are my hobby, but they're my hobby because I enjoy the process, not because I'm in it for the end result. Whether the thing that I make is a jig/fixture, a set of functional shelves/drawers to tidy the workshop or a pretty coffee table...

Absolutely brilliant as far as I'm concerned. Mine was a bit more expensive than that: I paid £18.80 for this one, although it seems to have gone up now. I run it with a Nilfisk vacuum cleaner and 50 mm pipe and it easily copes with the chips produced by my thicknesser. As for a good value...

I have Makita DBO180Z random orbital sander. I had a lot of sanding to do last night so was using it for a while and getting very frustrated by how much the dust hose gets in the way and makes it hard to keep the sander resting flat on the workpiece without much force and not tilted down...

Bah! Beaten to it!

No strong reason. I wanted something that was a similar size and shape to the vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner is obviously a cylinder. I don't have a wood lathe so there's no way I could make it circular. An octagon seemed to be a good compromise. Yes. I had a scrap of acrylic leftover...

Lots of photos of my set-up: How it normally looks (currently connected to table saw): That pipe is FAR too long, but I haven't got round to deciding how long I want it to be and I figure it's safer to leave it too long than cut it too short and regret it later! The dust box size was...

I use 50 mm pipe for both bits. I bought a length of 50 mm pipe and cut off a section of it. You'd probably be okay with the hose that comes with the vacuum for connection to the cyclone but I think something bigger is better for connection to the thicknesser as otherwise there would be quite...

I can't comment on Camvac et al, but I've got a Makita 2012NB connected up to a small vacuum cleaner (a Nilfisk Aero 26-21) and a home-made dust box with one of the cheap ebay cyclones. I've fitted 50 mm bore pipe to it and I've never once had a blockage in the outlet (apart from that one time...

I'd wholeheartedly recommend Mike G's magic mix. He recommended it to me for my first woodworking project. I've since tried a few alternatives (including hard wax oil, danish oil and shellac, but I keep going back to his mix as it's just so easy to apply, beautiful to look at and robust to...

I didn't notice a dramatic effect on the tools. The thicknesser is fairly new so hasn't had a huge amount of wear before this, but as well as this bit of greenheart, I put four other slices through (both sides, one before cutting in half and one after if that makes sense). Afterwards I did the...

Makita 2012NB

I decided to make some more today out of European Walnut (using a table saw to do the first cut rather than a hand saw). Thicknesser took the material down to 0.8 mm without any tear-out and I figured that would do: