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I finished this job this morning......True Handless style kitchen. I made all the cabinets, doors and panels. Door / Panel material is from a Spanish company called Alvic and is from their Cuzco Luxe range of Hi Gloss MDF boards. Base units are 780mm high + 100mm plinth Appliances are all...

I rescued this from a skip at my customers house this morning ( with their permission, of course .....)It was the lowest part/ sill of a tall full height window that was removed and replaced with a set of painted alluminium doors. I checked the rest of the parts of the wooden frame, but it was...

Okay,....Its obviously an Elu feature that Dewalt removed on the later versions.🤔 ...... Probably due to the likelihood of the switch filling with dust over the years of use 😁

I have an earlier Elu version (TGS 173) of your Dewalt saw and mine has a mechanical switch/pop up pin on the On/Off switch when using the saw in table saw mode. Once I flip it over Into mitre saw mode, the table automatically depresses the sprung pin and swops the switch over to the switch in...

I have to admit, I only realised that the rubber bobbin actually did expand & contract when I came to replace the sanding sleeve 👍 as it was a really tight fit......Once the nut was undone, the replacement process was easy. A classic case of me not bothering to read the instructions....😁😁😁

I have a Record Power BBS 100 bobbin sander that I've had for nearly 20 years I reckon.....Admittedly, it doesn't get used often at all. But, on those rare occasions, if I remember correctly, to change a bobbin sleeve, I have to slacken the nut on the top of the bobbin to loosen the sleeve...

I have a very good mate who used to work in the Tool Room for the company where he & I did our engineering apprenticeships. As a young apprentice of about 16/17 years old, one of the first things they taught him was how to sharpen drill bits & tooling on an bench grinder. He told me he would...

I think perhaps I haven't explained what the customer actually wants me to make..... She wants a moveable/portable end grain chopping board that is just going to sit on the Granite worktops. Its likely to spend most of its life in a certain position on the Granite topped island, but she wants...

Expert or not......That's good enough for me Darren!....👍👍 I'm glad to hear that I was thinking along the right track. I'll take your advice and plan the project accordingly.

I've just finished making & installing a new kitchen for a client and she has asked me if I can make her a large (800mm x 500mm x 70mm ) end grain chopping board as a surprise present for her husband to use, as he does the majority of the cooking....!😮 I've suggested either Beech or Maple as...

Ceramic Disc taps generally have a good lifespan.......As long as they have been fitted correctly( pipework flushed through before final connection) Ideally, in-line mesh filters are placed in the feed pipework and this helps to prevent foreign material entering the body of the tap and...

I also have a Festool CT26 vac perched up high in my workshop with a 7mtr x 36mm dia hose suspended on a homemade boom arm. Even though the hose is the Antistatic one, I do occasionally get a static shock from it but the majority of the materials I cut & machine are manmade and I do wonder if...

Here are a couple of pictures I've just taken showing the difference in colours, but bear in mind, the original paint on the Startrite saw bare casing on the right, is at least 60 years old..... The Kity saw dates from about 1986 and is also original colour. Both colours are a Hammer finish, as...

Kity green is a pretty close match to Startrite green...... Well, I have an original condition Kity 618 saw in my home workshop and its colour is a close match to the original condition Startrite green on the saws that I restore. I can take a picture showing the two colours next to each other...

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Close!......68 degrees.

There is a place in St Austell that offers CNC work.....Is that far from you...? Also another company in Launceston....?

In my opinion, getting MFT tops made by someone with a CNC is by far the better option. You can pretty much guarantee they will be far more accurate without the risk of introducing any error. I suppose it depends on how often you think you are going to need to make replacements ....? I've had...

This is now sold & collected.

Oh, I wish!! The customer supplied all the wall & floor tiles on that job at the time(25 years ago.....) and I didnt know what they would end up buying until I started actually fitting the bathroom. It turned out, they had purchased the hardest tiles I had ever come across to date. I had a lot...