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OK thanks Kirk I will try and sort out

Almost woodworking.... One of my next projects will be to make a pair of French doors in Southern Yellow Pine. Already have the wood which is 'seasoning' as we speak. I plan to make them with inlaid stained glass panels and I have been looking for said panels for the last few months. Finally...

Been a long while since I posted a WIP. Mostly I have been doing stuff round the house but I am now faced with a bit of a problem. We have a mahogany dining table which looks out of place in our dining room as the other furniture is all light-coloured. My wife has never liked the table - it was...

I was cutting some square section spindles for a bannister I am replacing at home. I had 8 perfectly 900mm long straight piece of SYP measuring 25x40 which I was going to cut in half so that each would make 2 at the final dimensions of 22x17mm. As the first piece of wood passed the circular saw...

Hello everyone and seasonal greetings I need to lay 25 sq m of 19mm oak flooring onto a solid floor. I have laid 25*38 batons with 25mm insulating sheets between each and 300mm gaps between. I want to secret nail the oak (100mm wide). I have just bought a Tacwise 500EL nail gun which I think is...

I had not looked at this site for a few weeks and then saw this project which was 'finished' 6 months ago but has now been resurrected. So... there are quite a few leather places out there I got mine from http://antiquedesktopleathers.com/ Thanks again for all your helpful and kind comments Mark

brilliant thanks i know exactly what you mean

Kind of you to reply I do quite a bit of box-making etc with complicated inlays on the top and would quite often like to use smaller 'dots' than I have - also things like the line and berry inlays which Steve Latta perfected. So a plug cutter would really be best - I have successfully turned...

The smallest plug cutter I can find anywhere is 6mm.... which is still quite big for the fine decorative inlays I like to do. Apart from the Lie Nielsen dowel plate, which I do not find gives accurate enough results to use in decorative inlays, and hand cutting, which is very laborious, and...

Thanks very much Olly - I thought there might be a way but it is much more fiddly

Thank you wobbly cogs - in fact as I have done more inlays I find there are always shortcuts - so this was easier than it looks. I took a piece of lemonheart and used the little Bosch router with a 1.5mm router cutter to cut 4 parallel lines 1 cm apart. Then I cut some yew strips on a Proxxon...

These photos were uploaded to a new version of flickr - anyone any idea why they do not load? OK a bit later had another look and I can make it a URL and then you have to click the hyperlink to get to the photo - but I cannot insert the photos directly any more..... that's irritating

Had a quiet summer in the workshop - got some other jobs done etc - but this was a 'commission' from someone who let us stay with them in their holiday home So she wanted a jewellery box similar to some of the previous boxes I made except it had to be in a light wood (I offered holly or sycamore...

it is quite a big chunk of metal to be holding freehand - go carefully

It was me that posted that about the circular mirror - and now I have bought and used the slightly smaller one as well - they are both outstanding you will not regret buying them Mark

At the risk of everyone saying 'told you so' I am also a complete convert to Matthew's 3M sheets just as Rob says. So much so that I have just sold on ebay most of the sharpening detritus I have accumulated over the years and just kepy 3 diamond stone (they may go eventually too! I happened to...

Dear Jim What an outstanding thread - I agree it has truly made me enjoy every minute of it. If you wanted to get rid of that #7 I would be quite interested... Regards Mark

2200 for me - it is unbelievable to have a router of that power on and rotating at full speed not moving at all - so well balanced

copydex works well with baize - I use it all the time for small boxes etc

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