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Hi Carl, welcome to the forum 👍

🤣 we'll have to see if you guys win the independence argument 😉 ( just kidding ) Welcome to the forum, theres people from all over the world here and an incredible combined knowledge base 👍

Welcome to the forum 👍

I hope the send-off went well 👍

Very good 👍 Your thread makes it look fairly achievable, but i bet theres some hard bits, like getting the front and back to the required thickness and the soundhole inlay, trussrod etc?

I wish i had time on my hands for fun! I used to, but then kids and a mortgage put paid to 'spare time' and now all i do is work..... even if i had time all of a sudden, i dont have spare money 😆🤣

On ones i fitted, there is vertical adjustment by way of grey plastic bits at the front that look like wedges. These can slide forwards or backwards to raise or lower

Check out the lawn mower 🤪

Ouch..... Well i enjoyed cdt at school but didnt turn up much for my final year and some of my exams. The inevitable result being i didnt get much in the way of gcse's. My favourite exam was french though. Mr coe had annoyed me earlier in the year and we fell out, so i stopped going to french...

Looking great 👍 you also did the one a while back with the circular ring on top?

Saw that, also an extractor for 60. ( Record power )

And the smell of dead squirrel in a ventilation system cant be good🤷‍♂️

I know a guy who has run his fingers through a spindle moulder.... and seperately a planer whilst doing curved work. We used to call him fingers, now its fingers and thumbs. A couple of his fingers are badly mangled and point sideaays, so when he points towards something telling you to get it...

Hi james, yes im alive 🙃 i havent been in the workshop much since april, ive got a fairly sizeable site project this year 😐 I can however tell you that in winter the container is somehow a few defrees colder inside than outside and in summer it warm up way hotter inside than out. You can get...

If you got lovejoys clamp heads, look for a length of 2x1 box steel. 3mm thick will be good. Box steel easily available in 5m or 7.5m lengths, so you can go as long as you want 😉

If you thickness it, make sure you alternate the feed area ( i.e, dont run 50 boards through the centre of the thicknesser, run them through in different places ) otherwise it'll blunt the centre quickly

Try using a sharp chisel as a scraper. You can get good downwards pressure with them, you might find the coating is sat on top and not really soaked in. You could try nitromors or look for a chemical stripping service near you ( they dip it in and then blast it off with a pressure washer...

If the steel on those blades is good, would one make a good fine tooth saw? As for the possibile washita, im pretty sure novaculite stones were made in various places. Britain had charnley forest, japan also produced some, so maybe its a Japanese novaculite?

I dont have a scrub plane, just a couple of number 4s, a couple of 5s and a few block planes etc As a site carpenter, most of my planing is with a makita powered planer or the block planes. In the workshop ive got a 12" p/t. Ive never even tried to dimension a project by hand, probably wouldnt...

😆 how about a millennium falcon??