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For background, the primary reason I did this project was to practice hand tool woodwork without having to worry too much about aesthetics (which are not my forte). Less significantly, I also wanted the ability to take a tool kit on holiday and be able to make small boxes and such-like. Since...

I found the dovetail jigs really useful for building confidence and practising the other aspects of the joinery process (marking out, chiselling to the line etc). My 3D-printed dovetail guides deal with all the sawing aspects (both for the tails and the pins) so you don't have to worry about...

I can print that for you (it's my design by the way) if you cover filament cost (will probably be < £1) and postage and you don't mind gluing your own magnets in (I haven't got any of the right size at the moment)

That's lovely

By using hand planes rather than electric routers & sanders ;)

Both definitely seems sensible to me. Having stuff visible and easily grabbable is invaluable for the stuff you need to use regularly, but nothing quite matches the storage density of drawers and cupboards (but they're definitely worth labelling with their contents or they can be where tools go...

I use Tung Oil in a mixture that I refer to as Mike's Magic Mix (named after the ex-member of this forum that told me about it). Equal parts (by volume) of pure Tung oil (I've used a few different brands but not found a significant difference), white spirit and satin varnish (of a type that...

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They're listed as out of stock on the website at the moment, but in case they have any in the store you're visiting, this is one of my most often used Axminster marking tools: Edge Distance Gauge Thing

Sold to @Bacms

Matt Kenney - The Art of Kumiko "Learn to Make Beautiful Panels By Hand [sic]". Excellent condition. £10 (or near offer) plus postage. Before buying this off me, please note that Matt Kenney's definition of "By Hand" is completely different to mine. I bought this hoping to learn how to make...

With my app, you get a tick mark with the two characters OK: ✓ The equivalent cross is XX: ✗

I have the python version, but the C version is viable in Linux with a similar amount of effort to be honest. Neither will work directly out of the box on Linux, but I don't think it'd be hard to get it at least mostly working on Linux. The incompatibility (in both python and C versions) is...

I finally pulled my finger out and ported my "digraph" tool to C++ so it's easy to publish as a Windows executable. If anyone's interested in downloading it and being able to type symbols intuitively rather than using obscure Alt-codes, these are the links: Source code (and detailed README...

Track saw parallel guides STLs (and STEPs) here: Printables

It was made from four pieces of flat bar. The flat bar pieces were combined into a single piece and then drawn out into a long cuboid. The middle section of that cuboid was flattened into a hexadecagon (16 sides) by flattening each corner in turn. The bits that stayed square-profile at...

It started off as four square pieces of EN45, at a guess they were about 60 mm square and 6 mm thick. They were heated up and hammered together (with a power hammer, although I'd guess a fly press could to the same job), with the scale scrubbed off and lots of borax poured on the joins every...

Today I finished making a knife. It started out as a two day course at Oldfield Forge in Herefordshire, then a few days at home adding the final bevel, redrilling two of the handle holes, giving it a bath in cheap & nasty (and hence acidic) coffee to bring out the grain, then shaping and...

I doubt they do a 19 mm and a 3/4" as separate options: 3/4" is 19.05 mm and the tolerance on parts like this won't be that tight. If they're selling 19 mm ones, they're probably identical to the 3/4" ones. I've got the 20 mm versions of these clamps and they're very handy.

+1. My 3D printer sits in the dining room next to where I work when working from home. PLA has a bit of a smell to it (although it's fairly faint) so I don't like to run a PLA job when I'm likely to be spending much time in the same room. I can't detect any smell from PETG and 99% of what I...