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Looks a good solid rig. I have never used a saw with anti-kick back pawls, can you remove or disengage them? If I'm sawing through a piece of timber and it starts to nip I pull it back to me and go again, I presume the pawls stop you doing this, that would be really irritating!

A few years ago I made some similar windows for a customer who was converting some farm cottages to holiday lets in Ireland. He brought me one of the old windows to copy, it was like a sash window but no boxes which I found a bit confusing, he then produced a small lath about 4" long which he...

I would say there is an equal number around me (Yorkshire) of sash windows fitted from the inside and outside. Generally the posher houses fitted from the inside behind the brick reveal, the ones fitted from the outside often have a decorative architrave mitred around on the face. Regarding...

Is the window going in from the inside or the outside?

When our old family joinery firm shut down we had JMJ round to look at the machinery, we had a lot of old Wadkin stuff but all they were willing to buy was the saw bench and they didn't offer a great price for that. We had a massive old Wadkin 5 head planer/moulder which went for scrap as nobody...

I'm liking Mr Bradshaws new set up, something like this would work really well for me 🤔

I would agree with others that there are some lovely machines there but don't think the actual value will be that much. It's the old problem of them being large industrial machines so no use to the average home woodworker but also they won't comply with any regulations so no use commercially...

I think Metabo and Mafell are the big names on the CAS battery system, Festool only fits Festool.

My mother has just had an old felt flat roof replaced with a fibreglass one, reputable local roofer. The job looks okay apart from there is a small area where I think the top coat looks a bit thin, am I right in thinking he can put a bit more top coat on this area, he's coming back next week to...

The OP mentions 19mm holes and the Axminster tool is for 20mm holes, I'm guessing it won't fit :dunno: I used a bearing guided cutter in my router similar to what Mike linked to.

The advantage of the Festool bluetooth switch is it works alongside the auto power tool socket, you can turn the vac on and off with the bluetooth switch or it comes on automatically when you turn on a power tool which is plugged in to the power tool socket. If you use one of the plug in type...

@TRITON yes for some of us making a door to match would not be difficult but making one from scratch in even a decently kitted out workshop is probably a 2 day job, that's after you've spent £300 on the Oak to make it. If you compare that to gluing a couple of Oak laths on the side of an £80...

The most economical way to buy hardwoods is rough sawn so I would say the minimum you need is a planer thicknesser and a bandsaw. Ideally cut everything slightly oversize and leave indoors for as long as possible before planing to finished size. Tulipwood is a bit of a standard for painted...

I bought a blade from them for my Kapex mitre saw, it is listed on their site as suitable for the Kapex, when it came it was positive rake. I did use it and had no problems with it. Picture of it here compared to the original Festool blade which is negative rake.

I don't really get the impact driver thing, yes if I'm putting in a lot of big screws I will use one but beyond that I normally find a standard drill driver more suitable. People seem to use impacts for everything these days, even putting the tiniest screws in hinges. In most cases I find them...

If worktops you could run 2 pieces 250mm deep, 2.7m long joined in the middle across the full length then add a 250mm piece in the middle on the front over the drawer unit if that makes sense. You could use MDF and edge it, one piece of MDF on each unit with the joints in line with the edge of...

Wow, that's an amazing job! Might be an old house but that's a new lining so surely something better could have been done to make a standard door fit. Are the hinges chopped into the chipboard edge? Would be better with an Oak edging lath on. Think I'd be starting again.

I can only base my experience on the older models but I had a couple of Trend vacs that only lasted just over a year each while some of Festool vacs I have are 10+ years old and still going strong. Do you need M Class, unless you are using it on site the L class might be okay for you? The...

The problem with buying something like a track saw is knowing where to draw the line, it's always just a few quid more for the next model up. It's always nice to have the best but do you really need it? The Makita is a great saw and will do all you need. The Festool is lovely, I've used and...

Make sure you double them up! Quick story from a good few years ago. My builders had finished a job for me and were putting their cement mixer back on the pick up by running it up two scaffold boards. It wasn't one of the little modern mixers that you can easily lift we are talking one of the...