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Great outcome. Stainless should last a lifetime. When I put my bench together in 1975 (15 at school), my father showed me how to coat the mild steel screws using a bar of soap to prevent rust. I moved the bench last year and had to remove these screws from the apron that had sat in a...

WARNING this Faithful one is now has a cheap cast iron head that isn't upto the job. Its not like the original crescent forged ones, suspect they switched to a chinese copy. Only seem to be able to get the crescent ones from the US with £30 post and tax

It's probably why they are 'ex industry'. I can foresee where this will end-up... Someone (with tenacious relatives) will eventually get killed, there will be an enquiry and mens sheds will be required to be regulated, inspected, audited etc and most will close... A bit of common sense and...

I echo what has gone before. I've made and repaired a few garden gates and doors over the years. Do use air dried timber and if necessary tell the client that its essential that the wood be conditioned and that takes time. Its a fact of life for a good product. It will save you problems later...

I like your style, you can do so much with just a little. Here are a few tips, each one getting more involved. I'd recommend experiment on some scrap wood first. You will need a long spirit level - worth investing in they are not expensive, get one 0.8m or 1m long and probably some F...

Hi and welcome to the forum. apologies but you will get swamped with advice, probably more than you need as we have all been in your shoes at some point. Its exciting to know you will soon have a garage workshop. I'm with @Terry - Somerset in recommending you start with hand tools. Also put...

Is this your permanent bench to just a starter one? two thoughts on a longer term bench. 1. solid wood top would allow you to keep planing it flat so would last a lifetime, ply will be great for a few years but will eventually move. 2. For a really stable base, think about a through mortice...

Good suggestion. I bought some boards on ebey to line the loft. turned out the guy in Bradford was a kitchen fitter getting rid of old tops etc, also he gave me for free a pile of oak off-cuts which have really come in handy. I turned down a lot so as not to be greedy, but have really...

A good outcome, showed the forum at its best. A problem shared. Let us know if you need anything more. But getting back to earning an income is a great start. The sad think is 99% of people are decent and want to help, its that small minority that poisons things for the rest of us. But this...

Those are good points, its very solid and grips very tight. For the vintage like @crystpins with 3 holes, it makes it quite easy to modify to add a DOG holder using the 3rd screw hole to hold the dog in place. The large rubber knob was a spare foot for the late mother-in-laws walking stick...

Yours is identical to mine. As you say its hard to exactly date it, I tend to agree its somewhere between 1915 and 1930, so 1920s seems right. Of the two vices, both good and will work well, sad to say it, but the Record is superior in terms of performance, Record copied Parkinson and then...

Very nice. Looks great (y), like the paintwork and you seem to have overcome the old screws etc. laughed at the wonky bar. I would not worry about not being flush with the bench. There are two schools of thought on this. Flush or proturding, both have advantages. My Parky was flush with...

I have a colleague at work who lives on a farm near Tamworth and has had a couple of raids. He told me if he caught them he has a digger and some land and they would never be seen again. He is normally a very rational engineer nearing retirement age, and a visiting professor, but has been...

That is also my experience. I'm a bit cautious on blaming government policy for things, but in this case its was a gamble that didn't pay off. The cuts to police funding in 2011 were on the back of years of good crime figures so government took a gamble, cut and see what happens. Where we live...

I would endorse SmartWater, have been going since the mid 1990s so long pedigree and good reputation. Our local churches use it. The invisible marker contains trace amounts a mixture of rare earth chemical elements are very low concentration, these are mixed in a unique amount for each...

Really sorry to hear, I'd like to contribute to the fund raiser and I'll get a list of tools you can have/borrow. If we can find a way to keep you going in the short term, I hope you will delay selling your shop. Tools like that take a lifetime to collect and a fire sale (as they call it)...

This quote from Wikipedia is quite misleading. The recession in 2014 to 2016 was due to the Russian invasion of Crimea and the Donbass, it cut off the harvest from Crimea and its important agricultural resources, while the eight year war in Donbass took a huge economic toll and still does in...

Not militarily, Biden has made that crystal clear, its why he is withdrawing US citizens from Ukraine so that there can be no hint of war between Russia and USA. The US is even more reluctant to sustain loss of service personnel than Putin. Especially after Iraq and the Afghan experience US...

I don't see it as that at all. The expansion of Nato was driven by small states fear of bigger aggressive states and 45 years of being under Sovient control. Putin does not see it that way either. Putin is not a mad megalomaniac, he is not after a new Soviet empire by force, his is a cunning...

This is a very good reply and sums up a lot about consultancy/service business. I'm in consultancy (in science and lab based technology, so a bit different), and found a very similar set of principles, work with our clients and 'market' over 40 years. 1. To start with you have to quote a...