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You may be right, custard. I can't say because I've had no reason to use their products, so never needed to seek technical support. Your post did prompt me to go and have a look at their website to see what kind of support they offer, and I came across this, and clicking on any of the product's...

Your nearest Morrells is here. It's a bit of trek down the M6 from Stafford, about 20+ miles each way I'd guess, so I suppose it depends how keen you are to follow suggestions from others for an alternative to the F&B paint. I've heard quite a few people complain about using genuine F&B paints...

I'd leave well alone. It's technically known as 'blotching'. What you're looking at is where the colourant and finish has picked up and highlighted waviness in the grain. Lighter areas are where you are looking at the grain rising away from you, and darker areas (vertical stripes) are where the...

That should work, and you are correct in needing a cut cupboard lock, but it also looks as if you'll need to extend the cut-out towards the door's centre by about 4-5 mm to allow for the casing carrying the lock mechanism. The other dimensions seem about right, including the setback for the pin...

Search for Paramose brand DCM paint stripper. It contains the methylene chloride ( Dichloromethane (DCM)) which is much more effective than the contemporary versions offered by firms such as Nitromors. There are two versions, water washable and spirit washable. Go for the latter. I use white...

It does help. I'm certainly not an expert and assume you know more about such things than I do. I got the information about infecting the delete button from (I think and don't now properly recall) reading a newspaper article in its business/finance section about people that had lost money...

Spoofed email address probably, and a scam attempt, and if it includes a clickable link(s) - don't click on it/them. If you hover over a clickable link, at the bottom left of your screen (usually) will be shown the address to which you'd go to if you do activate the link. All the scammer wants...

Probably the first time you clumsily drop a clamp onto a finger(s) as you either add it or remove it from the rack, or some other cause of shock. Slainte.

My goodness, you seem to be able to read quickly if you've managed to get through the whole thing already, or at least maybe a big chunk of it. I do very much appreciate the endorsement though. Thank you. Slainte.

You could have asked, but you wouldn't have got it, not that I lack hair, especially since I haven't bothered getting it cut for almost a year now. I only have volumes I and II in one volume but not III, and I have to admit I've not needed to open my copy for quite a number of years. And...

To strengthen the fingers (you're sure to break at least one at some point) you could carefully bore a hole 40-45 mm deep from the front edge of each finger and glue in a piece of dowel. Just how you'd hide the end of the dowel at the front face might be an interesting wee challenge, but I...

I like simple and easy maintenance, because it's just a bench that will probably get a plenty of beating. So, boiled linseed oil is good, maybe a couple of coats. It stops glue adhering, and although relatively easily damaged in use, also easily refreshed every now and then after, if required...

It's a shame I'd not signed it, (I don't think I did unless he bought it at the North of England Woodworking Show) because if I'd done so you could probably have beaten Jacob down to maybe only £20, including postage, ha, ha. Slainte.

I can't think of an easy way to secure the wood without fixing through the face one way or another. Screwing through the wood into rawlpugs (plastic plugs) is the obvious way, but that leaves hiding the screw head which could be sunk into the wood by counterboring and pelleting the counterbore...

Those short grain fingers, especially the piece with fifteen slots cut into the edge, look a bit fragile to me. I think that's the sort of project where I'd have chosen plywood to provide extra strength in each of the fingers, as illustrated in the fist photo in your post. I appreciate you were...

Take a notch out of the back of the shoe moulding that matches the profile of the protrusion, or: Remove that piece of plywood, MDF, hardboard, or whatever it is, and see what's behind it. Once you know what's there you might find you're able to replace the patch with something that fits flush...

Interestingly, because of the phenomenon hysteresis, wood adsorbs moisture quicker than it loses it. However, that's not particularly important, but knowing the current moisture content is. As Brian says, you can test for this using the oven drying method, in this case using a microwave...

I'd say the vast majority of a tree's waste products are removed as oxygen and excess water through leaf stomata. Almost everything else kept within the tree almost certainly has a useful role for the tree, such as maintaining and nourishing its structure, cells for growth, food storage, and...

My first car was one of these things, but it was all turquoise without the white stripe. (The image came from this source: 1966 Ford Cortina mk1 1500 GT SOLD | Car And Classic) I was also a bit of an inverted snob and carefully removed all the GT badge labels, and tweaked the engine, carbs, and...

Possible causes of visible glue line. Sockets between pins at an angle of less than 90º from the inside face of the board (short side) to the outside face of the board. Sockets between pins convex between inner face and outer face. The cut pins extended beyond outside face of the dovetailed...