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@Paul alan if you're at all mechanically minded (and I mean at all). Keep an eye out for second hand. You're 450 budget can pick you up a cast iron cabinet saw on ebay or gumtree etc. Of course these are significantly bigger and building them into your work bench would be different. I managed to...

@Cabinetman That's looks great! You're not too far from me. Where do you source your timber? Loving the bespoke extension to the sliding table!

Do you find you lose airflow due to the bends and the lengths of your flexi hose? I'm going to try and keep as much of my run as solid pipe as possible. The standard 100mm flexi hose that came with one of the vacs seems to really hamper the airflow.

It will definitely be just as polished and shiny once I've got it connected up and run it for 15 minutes!

Has anyone had any great success building their own cyclone? I've seen a couple of attempts on YouTube where they seem to try and redirect the air inside a barrel etc rather than buying one of the brands you can get here in the UK. Does anyone have experience of trying this, and if so what level...

@sploo thanks for the offer may yet take you up on it, looks great.

F. **** good knives. Great name.

@Inspector hi Pete, Thanks, I've been reading up. It seems I need to come up with a way of housing my dust extractors outside and bringing a hose through the wall is my best bet. Or ditching the 2 extractors I have in favour of a bigger until I can vent outside. It's something I need to look at...

I'm looking for advise on dust extraction. I'm moving home soon and will get a larger work space (She gets to decide what goes on in the house, I get the important space). I've never had a dust extraction "set up" as such and I'm toying with ideas on how to address this in my new space. I have...

Don't think it will fit through that slotty thing at the post office. And can you imagine the amount of bubble wrap needed?

They're hoarding all the reasonably priced second hand tools there too

@Droogs it is @timber who has very kindly offered to sell to me.

@TheTiddles I'd never heard of it until a few days ago (that's not saying much, there's plenty I've never heard of). I watched a YouTube video and it looks incredibly versatile. It's likely to be a long and gradual learning curve.

Thanks all for your posts, really good to hear others experience and learn from it. I always take the time to prep reclaimed timber as well as possible, but getting advise re the pitfalls etc when using a planer thicknesser has been really helpful. I've already got a cheap power plane which I...

@Sideways I'm aware of the issues with using reclaimed stuff. I spend a lot of time cleaning up before putting anything through the saws. It's never going to be risk free but I mitigate those risks as much as possible and find creating something I like to look at and is practical out of what is...

@topchippyles it's something that I've considered, I'm fortunate enough to know several people who have land where trees are regularly cut. It's something I've considered trying. I appreciate that I have no experience working this way but I'm always open to experimenting with new things.

@Droogs I'm mostly doing machine work. I, like most I think would love to be better with the hand tools. I practice a fair bit, I inherited my grandfathers planes and chisels which I have been reconditioning after probably 40 years in a shed. Most of my projects at the moment are larger things...

@Trevanion thanks for the response. I appreciate my use dodgy wood may be frowned upon. I hope I can be forgiven at some point. I've noticed these machines tend to move fast or get pricey very quick. I'm lincolnshire based too, if you know the county then you'll know everywhere is a long way...

Hi all, In the market for a planer thicknesser, but as ever when faced with parting with large amounts of cash I'm procrastinating. Generally I deal with stock no wider than 250mm. Use quite a lot of reclaimed and predominantly soft woods how ever I do get hards now and then, lengths anything...

Well that escalate!