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If you just want something that looks like that, I'll get a few dimensions off you and I can have it in the post over the weekend :)

As long as it's got the needed dimensions - (in metric please :D ) - I can model it in CAD first and make my own drawings for machining. Edit - Probably wouldn't be any more difficult to make them out of steel if you'd prefer that.

Are they both the same, are you in a rush, could you provide drawings? It looks like something I could do at work, but it would have to be in my free time. (I have access to a cnc mill & lathe)

Any idea where I can get a replacement pad for the Bosch Get55-125 sander? I bought a hard (blue) one last year, but can't find where I got it from. Thanks.

Have you tried https://www.the-blueprints.com/ ? They sell some stuff, but they have a massive amount of free stuff to.

A few years back I made a couple of chess sets on the cnc machine at work, out of aluminium. I'm thinking of having a go at making some wooden sets to go with the boards I make - probably maple, walnut, possibly rosewood. The only tooling we use is carbide, and the smallest r/h knife tool I...

Might not be very useful to you, but you might find it interesting - 3 plate method for creating flat surfaces. I know that was one method they used to use to create surface plates, back in the day.

Or wide low tack cream masking tape.

I bought some white French polish a few days ago, for the first time. Is it normal that it separates out? My normal blonde, pale and buttons don't do this. Thanks

I also trained as a draughtsman and used the same type of pens. Later, I used the same pens to do art-work, but haven't done any for about 20 years. I recently decided to get myself another set of Staedtler's and hit up ebay........ where I found them listed as 'Antique drawing implements' haha

My workmate used to say "Any id1ot can come up with mark 2 - coming up with mark 1 takes the brains"

I found this fascinating - how fire control computers worked in navy battleships in WW2. Using cams, gears, differentials and other types of mechanics to do maths - some of it pretty advanced. Part 2

If you've got a slip gauge set or a good quality feeler gauge you can measure those - if it didn't come with a setting standard.

As you improve, you'll make less mistakes and naturally get quicker. My joinery and constructions is much, much better (both in application and technique) than it was when I started my hobby, but my finishing still sucks. Many times I'll have to give it 3 or 4 attempts before I'm happy. And...

Firstly, woodwork is a hobby for me. I work in teaching/engineering, so my weekends are all about just enjoying being out in the shed, with the dog, pottering about - the money isn't that important. That's a long winded way of saying I don't do it as a business, and even if I didn't charge I'd...

Another user here posted up the link to this brilliant guide - brilliant if it applies to you that is, I don't know that band saw but I expect it might.

I had 10 of these doors from a skip about 18 months ago. They let me have them for nothing, just to give them more skip space - I dismantled them there and gave them the glass back ! This pic is about 1/4 of the rails, and some of the stiles (arrowed) I ended up with. It's not going to...

Tbh, I'm not sure - it was salvaged timber. Some sort of hardwood that was used in 1950's fire doors. This is what it looked like before I stained it and used black French polish on it - I wasn't that keen. @matkinitice The first 30 seconds is something I can understand. I made a couple of...

Theirs or mine? Mine take an age to make because I don't have all the tools I'd like (but then again, not many do!). I got the garage because my wife's Ford Kuga was too long to fit in it - my workshop is basically the footprint of a car. No wide drum sander, no jointer, no sander, no proper...

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