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Of course you can just buy empty bottles - they can be fairly cheap if you look around.

I had a variety of multi-bladed pocket knives growing up and was never without - used them all the time. My first ever one had a tool which according to my parents was for removing boy scouts from horses hooves. Anyway as life went on I switched to nice quality locking knife which went...

Sorry no photos - it was something I saw used on a shed-construction video I watched a few years ago. The thing looked like several rulers joined together - adjustable angles and possibly able to slide as well, like 2 connected diamonds. They used it to copy/reverse the angles needed for the...

Very good tip with the oily rag! When I was a BTCV volunteer we always brushed the tools with oil at the end of the day. I never thought to extend the practice to hand tools. Can't say I'd want get oil or grease anywhere near glue though. The risk of contaminating the work is too high. But then...

This is what you get when something gets trendy. Everyone wants a piece and crapness is rendered. Gin is horrible stuff anyway, about the only thing I won't drink (well, undiluted anyway. It's just about bearable in a Martini). Give me bourbon anyday....

Agreed, considering you can get gadgets to pressurise part used pop bottles! (Lids with a little pump on top)

Remarkably similar to my first idea!

Bought ones may be nice but... Budget. And the Screwfix ones do look spindly. I'd probably get annoyed with them. Anyway I have a load of reclaimed wood taking up space so I may as well use some of it. I like the ones in the video - way better than my idea and the legs slope in both directions...

Oh yeah. Tee hee hee. I never even thought to look for existing designs. I looked at a couple of slot-together ones here on UKW (very impressive) whilst looking for how to make a normal one, then went straight to "folding" in my head. Right here's a rough drawing I did in LibreOffice Draw...

I could do with a sawhorse or 2 but haven't got room to store it/them. So I was thinking, make each side with a board connecting the legs, to maybe 1/3rd of the way down, and hinge one side, so it can fold flat, and have some kind of flappy arrangement between the bottom edges of the 2 boards to...

I have to disagree about putting coffee in the fridge. I kept ground coffee in the fridge for years and eventually stopped doing it for some reason I can't remember. Couldn't tell the difference. If you're storing it in an open topped container it might be another story. Also you risk your...

Wow - brings back warm fuzzy memories! Thanks for the link!

Bentontool - is that a real corn-cob pipe I see? My (other) grandad smoked one for a while! His was very dark looking though, not bright yellow!

With regards to a workshop fridge, you could always make one using a peltier device. It could be a little EPS cave...

I used to get the blister packs of CA glue from the £ shop. Once opened a tube would go straight in the fridge. Just seemed like common sense. Nice have confirmation it was actually doing good! My grandad always kept tins of paint upside down. Never had skin on his paint. I made "organisers" out...

Hmm, I'll go with using a sharp knife in future then since I don't seem able to mark a pencil line that close (and my cheap chisels don't do too well across the grain either). Useful to know. Thanks for all the tips! Thanks for the detailed description Bingy, but getting the position wasn't the...

I just turned a door round so the hinges are on the opposite side of the frame. I didn't rebate the hinges in the frame because the door's a bit narrow, but I did have to cut a rebate for the latch-plate. So, in it's original position the latch-plate was a nice snug fit in it's rebate - I had...

It was primarily because he couldn't make the parts to a close enough tolerance. It was made using modern machinery some years ago and works as Charles had planned. It would certainly be interesting to know about the lack of standardised hardware aspect of it though! Must have been so much harder.

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Well if anyone is interested, the Warwickshire willow people didn't get back to me. Meantime, I thought I'd try the laths idea. So anyway, I had a couple of boards nailed together that had been left propping up the garden shed by the previous owner, so I pried them apart being quite long and...