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Every few months Saw Stop gets raised all over again, maybe one of these threads should just be picked at random and made into a sticky? sawstop-coming-to-europe-t106283.html sawstop-news-update-t107060.html sawstop-uk-imports-t60692.html...

A top quality lunchbox or bench top thicknesser like the DeWalt will deliver high quality, snipe free, results with perfect parallelism (it'll be the same thickness on one side as the other), and it'll do this in hard or soft wood. It will also remove a great deal of the hard graft from the...

You can get splashes of that purple/pink colour in Yew, but it tends to be localised rather than the entire board, and generally Yew is a more orange (at least when freshly sawn, let it oxidise for a couple of decades and it goes a beautiful conker brown). This is a typical decent quality Yew...

Do you mean approximately the same height, or exactly the same height? If you need exactly the same height you might be better making your own trestles/saw horses, and then make a spacer block that can rest on top to take the height up to precisely match the MFT. Trestles are fun things to...

Point taken! This post on edge jointing, how-to-edge-joint-t112936-30.html contains two methods that rely less on hand skills, routing an edge and shooting an edge. I'd suggest that both of those methods are better solutions than the jig featured in the linked video. The thicknessing...

It works better than I expected (with the previously mentioned caveat regarding twisting). I was surprised that the jig overcame the feed roller pressure within the machine and managed to hold the workpiece vertical, but his test with the square seemed to demonstrate it did just that. So, okay...

Making up your own inlay banding is a bit fiddly at first, but once you've done it a few times it's not too difficult. And as well as delivering the exact inlay or edge banding design that you want, it also means you can get a perfect colour match with the timbers you use for any specific project.

Two rails, as wide apart as the width of the corner pillar unit allows. Rail dimensions? Do some calculations on this, ignore the sheet goods top and assume the rails are the only support, https://www.woodbin.com/calcs/sagulator/ Personal choice but I wouldn't tolerate more than 1mm of sag...

Do you value free markets and free choice more than you detest waste, or visa versa? You're free to make that choice with your own purchases, but imposing those values on others through legislation is a big step to take. The only thing I can think of that might justify it is if buying crepe...

If the top of your desk is made from sheet goods then it'll droop in the unsupported centres. It'll droop more with MDF than plywood, but it'll still droop more than I'd be comfortable with. So in any event you'll have to have some supporting solid timber rails underneath. And because of these...

Most commercial veneers are knife cut. But the logs are usually boiled for many hours to make them soft enough for knife cutting, and really hard tropical timbers, like say Rosewood or Ebony, will still be too hard and must be saw cut. Furniture makers made odd bits of plywood for special...

There isn't a woodworker alive who hasn't stood where you are now, frustrated with progress and hoping a change of tool will provide the solution. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I find once you get up number 6 or 7 metal bodied planes then if the sole needs flattening it can take an awful...

To illustrate the point about different Rosewoods. Here are some boards from my store, on the left is Rio Rosewood and on the right is old growth Indian Rosewood, I'm sure you'll agree these don't look much like your chair. But here's the Honduran Rosewood from Timberline, it's a much better...

John, you don't need any Rosewood, you need the right Rosewood, otherwise it'll stick out like a fish in a tree. Your best bet is Honduran Rosewood. Call Bob at Timberline in Kent, pretty sure he has Honduran in stock and he'll post small pieces. Make sure you're sitting down before you ask...

Tricky one this, if you're uncomfortable then you're right to stop. But in a commercial workshop no one would hesitate on a job like that, they'd just plane that piece of timber as it is and wouldn't regard it as hazardous in any way. You never have your fingers touching the workpiece...

How many sash cramps do you need? Imagine the pressure from the sash cramps fanning out at 45 degrees like this, The entire glue joint needs to be covered within those imaginary fan shapes. A wider glue up needs fewer cramps, and a narrower glue up needs more cramps. So 3x90mm boards equals a...

I was thinking about this as an option, it also opens up the possibility of having the bead the same size as the barrel of the hinge and letting the barrel flush into the bead which can look very classy. The problem is you'd then want a similar bead around the drawer opening above, in order to...

Have you tried putting a square in each of the corners of the face frame, are they all out of square or is the problem just one stile or rail that's out of square? Incidentally, a couple of mill gap between the door and the face frame is a bit on the big side. Some people say the limit is 1/16"...

Yes, they're still widely available and sold on Ebay as new/old Elu stock.

You're right to identify this as something that can quickly go pear shaped. It's pretty easy to either end up with a panel that's too loose and rattles in the frame, or a panel that's too tight and splits the groove open. I suggest you draw a full size plan (you can use a sheet of play or a...