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One of my customers asked me to cast my eye over the double glazing in one of their windows, anybody seen anything like this before? As you can see all of the spacer bars on the yellow panes have bent inwards, anybody know what could have caused this? I had nothing to do with making or...

I think it's "Best".

I generally use the masking tape trick to hold the edging on until the glue has set.

Have you got all the architraves around the casings yet, could you put some packings under the casing heads and drop the architraves down to make the gap under the doors smaller? You don't need any jigs etc for hanging a few doors, a router is handy but you can do it with just chisels and a...

There are plenty of smaller spindle moulders around which aren't so scary and are no bigger than a router table. I can never understand why someone would spend £2K on a router table set up when things like this are available...

Yes get a spindle moulder. The bad reputation they have is mostly from the old days and the old style cutter blocks. If you got your finger in one of the old square blocks it would drag your hand in followed by your arm, these days with the limited projection tooling they only nibble away...

@sometimewoodworker what you have done is fine. 3 or more hinges are good as long as they are all in line, this is generally easy on new stuff but can be a problem on replacements doors. If you try a new door in an old opening and the hinge side stile needs trimming to fit it's best to just...

Lengthened some Oak doors a few weeks ago, screwed a piece under and left a shadow gap, worked really well on this style.

Most of the doors I hang are replacements which is probably why I prefer the traditional style hinge because as @johnnyb says if the architrave isn't set back enough it causes problems with the bearing hinges. Also the leaves are often thicker on the traditional style butt hinges than on the...

I have 4" butt hinges on my internal doors, my doors are 40mm thick and I think just get away with the big hinges, they might look like overkill on a 35mm thick door. Regarding hinges I personally prefer a traditional double washered butt hinge over the bearing style that you mostly see these...

Started fitting the knobs on these today and what a PITA. The knobs the customer has got are these https://www.doorhandlecompany.co.uk/zoo-hardware-fulton-bray-grey-crackle-glaze-porcelain-door-k-14576/ They are the type that are really well designed, you know the ones where you can't get...

It's a Minimax SC2 that @MikeK has so sure he will answer any questions, I have the SC4 which I presume is practically the same just bigger. The Minimax stuff is made in Italy by SCM, it's decent quality, totally different class to all the rebadged Chinese stuff.

I've had a Wadkin and a DeWalt RAS, they could both be used with the blade horizontal but I never did. I had a trenching head for the Wadkin which I used for door casings etc but that was as adventurous as I got with it. The DeWalt came with a moulding head and a few cutters but I didn't use...

You can do lots of things with a RAS if you are feeling brave (the second video is where it gets scary)!

I have one of these, it was about half the price when I bought it two years ago, it also does a 90 degree line which can be handy for setting things out. It seems accurate but the line can be a bit thick and fuzzy for some things, I keep meaning to get a better one but don't really use it that...

My friend is part of a company which has developed the technology to capture 99.9% of the volatile anaesthetic agents which can then be recycled and reused. I get the impression the NHS are not on board with it yet as it costs and they are more budget driven than environment driven.

I have an SCM sliding panel saw similar to Mikes and love it. If you are doing cabinets I would say a panel saw is definitely the way to go. People say they take up a lot of space, the bigger ones do but it's mainly the size of what you are cutting that takes up the space, for example if you...

@baldkev you have doors made out of actual solid timber that's a novelty! Funnily enough I was working on the doors today but won't have the latches until Monday so will see what the stiles are made of then. It was meant to be a quick job, I squeezed it in as it's just down the road and was...

For a few years my only table saw was an Elektra Beckum TKHS 315 which is the same kind of thing. I bought it second hand for about £100, used it for a few years and sold it on for the same. This style of saw seems out of favour but I would have another, the induction motors just seem so smooth...

The whole blum hinge thing does seem a bit complicated until you get your head around it but it really is simpler than it seems. Once you've done a few all the drawings and measurements make sense and it's an absolute breeze, you just put the hinge where it says and it works 🤯 With many...