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I wish I had trought of the idea of the visible air ramp (helix shape) when I built mine. It was awfully difficult to weld in there but with his redesign I could have welded from the outside. I used 2mm plate for the rest and 8mm for the flanges and 1,5mm for the cone. Stick welded everything...

I am a professional...well...sort of.... but as I tend to get involved as a problem solver in those projects that other professionals avoid I have become a professional jack of all trades in wood. Everything from log building to windmill repairs to wooden boat repairs to fine furniture and...

Spare parts is generally not a problem. There is hardly anything on it that can break yet cannot be made.

I know nothing about Watts Brothers but the machine has all the design features one should look for in a mortiser. The only downside I can see is the open ended motor which may need rewinding one day in the future (may be next week or in the autumn of 2254 or anything in between) when too much...

That big eared bloke is you Philip.

New Stanley and Record planes are cheaply made and usually junk. Buy 50 and use the best parts to assemble one usable plane...... if lucky...... Most of then are only good for longline sinkers if you aren't prepared to make your own parts from scratch. Older ones are generally better though...

The problem with any scribe using a pencil is that the offset changes very fast as the lead wears. That is the reason why I stick to my old scribes with iron points scratching the wood. I have pondered about a solution for quite some time and not been abe to come up with anything so far.

I am saying the same yet from another perspective. Please calm down and hold onto your money. You don't need a tilting spindle. Given time you will find a very good non tilting spindle moulder secondhand for well under 1000 pounds. The same price or mariginally more than you would pay for a...

In my oppinion those small lightweight DIY spindle moulders have all the downsides of a router table combined with all the downsides of a spindle moulder. Not worth having. The minimum size to be useful is in my oppinion a totel weight of at the very least 300 kilos and a 2,2kW motor. Bigger is...

I woyuld call those self sharpening chains a marketing trick aimed at clueless consumers suceptible to such cons. The cutting angles end up all wrong requiring too high limiters which in turn reduced efficiency to almost nothing. Learning to sharpen an ordinary chain with a file isn't that hard.

Thanks for the kind comments. There is no ballast keel. Essentially this is a sailing dinghy but because the design originates in Gothenburg where the tidal range is small and because it is widespread in the Baltic where we have no tides at all there is no practical reason for a centerboard...

Two days before delivery the fin keel proved to be severely iron sick and had to be renewed. I made the new keel bolts from A4 stainless with square heads that fit into notches in the lower edge of the keel. No bungs to lock in moisture this time. A quarter past 11 in the evening on the day of...

The owner says he will scrape off the rest of the brownish paint from the topsides and varnish them. On the inside there will be some mixture of linseed oil and pine tar. I just scraped as much as I had to scrape to get the job done.

Making progress

My experience is that a blade less than 25mm wide is pretty much useless for ripping and resawing because it is just not stiff enough to saw anywhere near straight when subjected to a reasonable amount of feed pressure. To run such a blade you need a very solid frame and. According to most books...

Casadei are professional quality aiming at professional users. I think they are rebranded Meber theese days. However being in Sweden your best buy would almost certainly be cecondhand. That country is overflowing with high quality secondhand bandsaws usually fairly priced. If you want a small...

More progress

Glued the inwales today. The glue will prewent enclosed moisture in the joint starting off new rot like the old.

This one is kept moored with the bow towards a small wooden quay and the stern tied to a buoy. Stockholm is only some 500 kilometres from me. As I belong to the Swedish minority in Finland the ties to Sweden are strong and Stockholm is mentally closer than Helsinki. I haven't been there in 12...

I am using locally grown spruce (same as Norway spruce). The traditional boatbuilding timber the the northern two thirds of both Finland and Sweden and Norway. For transom and frame repairs I used oak as she was originally built that way. Oak is excellent for stems and transoms but it doesn't...