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Had 5 minutes to kill at work and decided to upload an avatar picture to my profile. Despite resizing to 140 x 140 and saving as a.gif, the lowest possible quality, the file size is still too big at 9.8KiB. Does anyone know how to make the picture any smaller? Cheers, Mark

Well, I was lucky enough last week to have the postman deliver a parcel containing one of the latest offerings from KT Tools, ( AKA Jimi43..) a Lignum Vitae mallet. Last year I had put in my request to have one as soon as I heard he was going to be making them and now the wait was over... As...

Hi Guys, we usually buy in or I have a guy who makes bespoke for us. However, he is busy with a large job for the next 3 months. We are currently doing a refurb where the client wants a bespoke kitchen, nothing too fancy or expensive, just going to be painted shaker doors and carcasses from...

Hi Mark, nice piece, and looking forward to seeing it progress. Can you elaborate on how you made the legs? The elliptical tapered legs on my recent piece were the most difficult part and I would be interested to see how you tackled yours. Thanks! Re Robs comments, I didn't think he was being...

Well Jacob, that's a surprise! I thought you were of the persuasion that you don't need expensive tools, cheap basic ones do the job just as well... :wink: cheers, Mark

Hi Rob, looking nice so far, can you just confirm that all the parts shown are veneered panels, none of it solid? I have quite a bit of elm as well, made a nice box just before Christmas and you are correct, it is lovely to work with, I found it even easier and more friendly than...

Hi Mark, I used Exotic hardwoods, great company, here: http://www.exotichardwoodsukltd.com the wood for the stool cost about £100 Thanks for the compliment! Cheers, Mark

Thanks for the link Paul, I see now, hopefully, as you say, there wont be any issues. I think any of those methods would have spoiled the lines of the finished piece when you looked underneath. The actual full sized dressing table has no obvious method of fixing of the top, although the...

Hi Paul, thanks for the tip, can you elaborate a bit on the use of buttons? I have never heard of this technique and it would good to know. I must admit, it did cross my mind as to the best method - I did consider the dominoes again, but the top was too thin. How can stick something down...

Hi Guys, I thought I would show you my first attempt at a proper bit of furniture. We recently purchased a beautiful Gordon Russel dressing table, see here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1960s-English ... 0558133282 As you can see, a very elegant and fetching design with some lovely touches...

Hi Dodge, very nice work and super quick... Where does that nifty looking box clamp come from? Cheers, Mark

Looks like it will be hand then, as you say Jacob, I could do with the practice...the rosewood is not ideal to plane though, one patch can be perfect, then wham, tearout....so I will have to be really careful.... Cheers, Mark

Hi, my current project has some trapezoid section legs, ( although two of the faces are not parallel, so its not strictly a trapezoid, but its near enough..) that also taper. The outer and inner corners need quite a big radius machined onto them, the opposite pair a smaller round, just to break...

You are correct Rob, it was a bit of a mare, however, I shimmed out the piece until it has a sacrificial right angled face as suggested, and used the domino setting that machines the slot wider than the actual domino, to allow for the fact that the leg tapered. It seems to have worked OK...

Hi Guys, its not quite as easy as that ( all faces are angled and raked..), but that's the theory of what I was thinking. Problem one is that the outside face of the legs and side rail is gently curved as well, so tricky to register the domino nice and flat. The angled slips is probably the way...

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Hi guys, I am making a stool in Indian Rosewood for SWMBO, to go with a lovely Gordon Russel dressing table we recently purchased. Initially, all was going very well, however, I did not give due consideration to how the thing was going to fit together and am now faced with a tricky problem of...

My admin girl at work ( she has a staffie rescue ***** as well and her and my dog are here at the office/workshop all day with us , which is great) regularly looks on the Battersea dogs home website and its heartbreaking seeing all those lovely dogs there ( I want to have more dogs, but SWMBO is...

I am very moved by all your stories, especially you Jimi, I remember when our last dog, Winnie, our beautiful brindle staffie ***** went, damn near broke my heart, was like loosing a child. We waited 4 years before getting another, this time a boy staffie, ( all my dogs, for the last 25 years...

And here is my gift, two lovely old moulding planes. I dont have any, so will sit nicely in my collection! Really nice to be part of the event this year. happy Christmas to you all !! Cheers, Mark