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I do sometimes prepare stock by hand. When they are too large or too heavy or just have awkward shapes that don't fit the planer/thicknesser or when I want less than a millimetre removed to make something fit. However when you start from rough sawn as I always do and want all sides flat and...

With hand tools there are no limitations to what kind of joints you make or what shapes you can create nor to the size of the workpiece. The only limitations being the properties of the wood and the size of the largest tree in the forest. However there will always be one limitation and that is...

I am with Jacob on this. Pine windows painted with modern acrylic paint rarely last long. The acrylic paint and the polurethane foam used to install the windows don't let the moisture out once it has entered the wood. Even old windows that have been perfectly sound often rot out after being...

I damaged my back when digging out a foundation underneath an old building at work. Got no compensation (the boss and the insurarce company made up a story about an accident and a total car wreck on my way home) and it took me 18 years to recover a reasonable heath. Many years weith severe...

Clever idea! Thanks

Note that I suggested putting it in a freezer if you live in a "tropical" place where you don't have freezing winters. One freeze and thaw cycle is enough and outdoors under cover in such weather is dry enough for furniture. Actually one will normally leave the furniture in a tractor shed or old...

This is one of very few youtube woodworking regulars that I find to be worth watching. My German is very limited so I understand only about half of what he says but still I learn things now and then: https://www.youtube.com/c/antik-greef/videos As I said before....... almost all youtubers are...

I have a hard time finding a youtube channel that has anything to do with the way I work. Most seem to be either the happy chap with his cheap and cheerful hobby tools in a shed or the wealthy tool conoisseur with every machine that is known to mankind and every plane in the Lie-Nielsen...

You are a bit late in the season but the best and cheapest way to get rid of those woodworms is to leave the furniture outdoors in freezing temperatures for a couple of weeks. The colder it is the better it works. Putting them in a freezer works equally well if you live in one of those tropical...

It is sounding very much like an upside down conventional drum sander. My planer/thicknesser combination works like that in the thicknesser mode and the feed rollers that push the workpiece upwards and hold it tight against the thicknesser table are a crucial part of the concept

As money is short when you are laid off I suggest secondhand machines rather that spendng a lot of mony you cannot really affod to spend on too cheap machines that really will not do the job.

Maybe made by some local patternmaker for his own use? You sometimes see unexpected tools cast from brass or bronze by someone with access to a brass or bronze foundry.

Sounds ridiculous. I started driving tractor at age 6 or thereabout. Massey-Ferguson 35 without cab nor roll over protection. I was taught to drive carefully and for several years I was only allowed to use the three lowest gears. I got my first saw at age 4. Immediately started felling small...

Tools are made to be used so they only need to look decent. Making them look perfect only means that valuable time was not spent using the tools to work wood. Yours look more than decent. Well done!

I came to think of one thing....... how many people today know how to harvest grain with a sickle and tie it into bundles for hand threshing? The old lady next doors often looked after me when my parents were away and every autumn she harvested some oats the old way to feed the birds in winter...

Practically speaking all aluminium sash cramps of the generic type that turn up secondhand or that I have seen people use for anything but light hobby use are broken. Broken ones turn up in surprising numbers. Not quite what I would spend my money on. In Britain you have an excellent supply of...

Wood pellets is compressed sawdust or more commonly compressed planer dust. A part of my sawdust goes into the garden as a soil cover. Part goes into the compost. Most goes to a neighbour who heats his house and workshop with woodchips.

In the past there were many European makers of high end sliding table saws with sliders that were mounted outside the table so to say. Bäuerle, Kölle, Jonsered, Waco, Manko, SCM l'invincibile, Rema, Casadei, Sicma, Stenberg (may have been made by subcontractor), Klein&söhne, I think Frommia made...

I agree! China has clearly studied the growth of the British empire in great detail and learned their lessons. Economic dominance and trade monopoly combined with destabilisation of governments followed by fairly peaceful land grabs and just the occasional bit of gunboat diplomacy or military...

Around here we always rekoned that we were fairly safe from nuclear bombs as we tend to be upwind from Leningrad. At the present I rekon that "United Cleptocrats of Russia Ltd" are more likely to undermine our democratic societies via propaganda and conspiracy theories and then invade on land...