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" I have observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first rate brand " Oscar Wilde's comment on marriage. One could fill a page with epigrams from the same man.

It's very much down to the species of wood. I found maple very ' crumbly ' and ash a much better wood. The dowel should be round of course - commercial lengths of dowel rarely are. Assuming you are using a thread box the cutter is adjustable to take a full deep cut and I use furniture wax as the...

It depends on what you want as a final finish. Poplar is good as it has virtually no grain and lends itself to painting. I often wonder if MRMDF could be used for cabinets but it seems a false economy unless anyone can enlighten me.

Speaking of WC the great man was once interrupted in the actual WC by his secretary who shouted ' Sir the Privy Seal is here to see you ' To which he replied ' Tell him I'm sealed in the Privy ' :D

Not exactly a rejoiner but I always remember the quip by Oscar Wilde when Bosie ( Lord Alfred Douglas ) threw a present of a cigarette box back at him - ' Sir, pleasures must be paid for '

I have the Stanley Fat Max which I find good. It heats up in about 30 secs and has Hi and Lo settings. I tried a gas heat gun once but the thing was always out of gas when I went to use it. :rolleyes:

And avoid American Red oak as it's not weather durable. Use stainless steel or brass hardware.

I have the Hammer N4400 and set it up with a 3 TPI 20 mm blade. It should definitely ride on the crown of the wheel. The teeth of modern blades are hard enough not to distort on the rubber wheels. From memory think 1" is the maximum the Hammer takes and don't forget the wider the blade the more...

Very nice work. I have made a few ' nightstands ' as the Yanks call them. Personally I wouldn't trust the unsupported mitres but I have a little known tool called the ' Rockler Miter fold dado blade ' which machines a locking joint on mitres like this. You need a saw with a long 5/8 " arbour...

I needed an 18 mm wide screwdriver and had to make my own after fruitless searching. I bought an 18 mm spade/flat bit, cut off the point and ground the bit to a flat edge. It was about 1 mm thick so if you were to do this you would obviously need to grind it down. I then inserted it with some...

I've cut Yew into 20 mm thick boards for boxes. It certainly likes to warp - I'd use a minimum of 25 mm next time. Good luck !

I made it a rule not to buy any machine that I could not move myself. ! I appreciate you might have access to a fork lift truck but for the average Joe in his shed moving the cast iron machines can be a real problem. I only mention the twin slots as with a long arbour you can use moulding heads...

Very few of us have the room for a big slider saw but a compromise is something like the Axminster AT254LS which can have a slider rail as an add on. Personally I have an old DeWalt 746 with a 5/8 " arbour and I am a devotee of the American system. One thing I find invaluable is the twin slots...

Welcome. How I wish I was back at square 1. :D As you acquire power tools and machinery try and hook them up to dust extraction.. Yes, it costs more money but a clean shed makes you want to use it. !

Is that 45 mm wide x 45 deep . ? If it's 45mm long you have a small cube and would be dangerous on a chop saw. For standard trimming of a few mm however nothing beats a table saw or chop saw for accuracy. Ideally small items should be clamped down for cutting. As a last resort a disc sander will...

A dado cutter in a tablesaw is the ideal tooling for this kind of work. I've used one for thirty years without any problems whatsoever.

Bandsaws are very blade dependent so you will certainly get a decent rip capacity out of a 3 TPI blade. In practice I find my small bandsaw is most useful for trimming small bits and pieces like exotic woods and veneers that I don't want to waste. I keep a 14 TPI blade in it and that will...

The problem seems to be that the bit is describing an eccentric circle due to a poor fit in the collet. This is dangerous - it could easily throw the bit at high speed. The spiral bit is obviously 1/4 inch shank. I wonder if you have a 6 mm collet installed by mistake. ? You are measuring the...

You seem to have a lot of the shank exposed. Try and bed the bit down to the base of the collet and then retract just a few mm. Take a few passes if the groove is any deeper than a 3 - 4 mm.

'Cokes patent ridge and furrow system ' invented by Lord Thomas Coke, the Earl of Leicester. A very innovative system designed to let more light on the the plants by preventing water pooling. I wonder if it's available now . ?!