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The laminating former is made from 3 layers of 15mm melamine coated chipboard This old kitchen unit . One 15mm template is cut and accurately shaped a second layer is roughly shaped and screwed to it and then trimmed with a bearing guided router cutter and this is repeated for the third layer...

This is a an exercise in laminating to produce a set of legs which are both tapered and curved. It is based on an article written bt David Charlesworth in the very first edition of Furniture and cabinet making in 1996 The table I was making would be 600mm high and the laminates I needed would...

How were you going to treat the edge of the doors if they hadnt been damaged. My view would be that the raw edge needs needs reasonable lipping and that a veneer edging would potentially fail I would lip all round with 6mm oak . See if they will give you the lipping for both doors and possibly...

Was it messy opening the tin

There are companies in America/Canada which make spiral/helical heads for older machines but they are very expensive from memory a 12" Wadkin was going to cost around £1400 plus shipping, which if you add on to a decent machine is about the same as a new Hammer It does seem that some of the...

My last machine was a Startrite 310 with a 2 knife cutter block and the finish was perfectly acceptable. My new spiral hammer is better but still needs to be hand finished, so on that basis I think 2 knifes will be OK. Width is one of those things that whatever you buy you will always have a job...

Rough sawn maple is around £80 cuft but also varies with thickness

Dominos are vastly superior to biscuits except for edge jointing where I think the biscuit is better (not stronger) I have a Leigh and a DF500. Use the domino all the time. Leigh collects dust but might use it if making lager runs of boxes/drawers

I am totally with Cabinet man on this one. The key with surfacing is dowwards pressure on the outfeed table. It is quite straightforwards to start feeding the pice onto the cutter with pressure on the infeed and transfer over the cutter guard and then continue. I have a newer narrow...

You havent said how long your workshop is. Portal frame is generally the mosyt cost effective for larger buildings but it also depends upon any specific foundation requirements. If using timber purlins you are OK up to about 4metre portal frame separation. Above that go for steel purlins ( as...

Beech has a more interlocked tighter grain and is less likely to splinter. I would use beech for the top and ash or beech for the legs

You really need to try and get your timber as close as possible to its final environment. Once I have rough cut all my components they go into the spare room until I am ready to start. You have a couple of things to consider. Cupping and twisting. By alternating pieces you will minimise overall...

As Sideways says these work by the magnet being in contact (much the same way as a "keep" in a horseshoe magnet. If there is too much gap you may be able to use a piece of steel shim. This will be better than an air gap but not as good as original

The batten as suggested would resist any cupping and no reason why not to fix rigitd at the back and allow the rest to be slot screwed. The front of the cross battens may look a bit chunky and out of place with the clean line of a floating shelf but you could reduce this by chamfering the front...

Manual verniers are excellent but instead of worrying about batteries I have to worry about where my glasses are to read them

I also have the I gaging ones from Peter Sefton which are excellent

Yes but they do have nice short fingernails

I think the timber you are jointing also plays a large factor. Something soft like pine will be fine straight of a table or track saw . If you are working with a really hard timber like maple or some of the exotics, I think you meed a much better finish. I would also aim for a very slightly...

David Colwell at Trannon furniture ,Petter Southall and Charles Whinney are 3 of the industries experts in commercial steam bending. It may be worth contacting them.

What a load of carp Typical you tube video with annoying presenter no guarding on the saw and the only bit worth listening to are Modern glues do make poor mechanical joints much stronger than older animal/hide glues The last bit that these are tests not necessarily real life