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My granddad worked as a patternmaker. He was a little fella and always wor either a cap or a trilby. Always, even if he was just going down to his greenhouse. One day, in the workshop, he was grinding something when the stone exploded. A piece came off and slit his cap from front to back. 2"...

I venture to suggest that you have got it right. Well done.

Possibly. It doesn't matter where it rides, what matters is that it cuts True North.

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14 TPI is a pretty fine blade. What material are you cutting and how thick is it? Are you crosscutting or ripping? This matters.

If you use the box-section steel trick, wrap them with parcel tape first. How thick are these panels? This ones are more difficult than thick, but if your edge-jointing is good, you don't actually need a lot of pressure. It also helps to alternate the clamps above and below, rather than all on...

To keep these top boards aligned I'm using my big Domino because it's quick and easy and what's the point in having it and not using it. I could do the job just as well with a router or on my hollow-chisel mortiser, it would just be slower. The holes go right through, except for the front and...

The description calls it Compact... Check that it will be big enough for your needs, that is quite small. Mind you, my first RT was the old Elu MOF96 kit. It cost £120 40 years ago and was less than a square foot, as I recall! Also check that your router will fit it. But if does suit your needs...

My RT is based on Norm Abrams' design. Much copied and difficult to beat. My fence is better than his though :) I made mine as a 2-part fence so it has micro-adjustment on it. With a Router Raizer it means that I have full control over the position of the cutter. Actually my fence has got a...

I've thought about that. That chisel is a nice fit, and for narrower ones I have a Cunning Plan.

That chisel is 3/4". The base is about 300 x 150, a bit big perhaps, but as I say, it was all bits from the scrap bin, just as a prototype. Well worth doing, actually as I learned a lot about how to, and how not to make it. I have a nice piece of cherry from which to make the real thing. My...

Well perhaps it would be better called a chisel plane. I've set the bed at 36 degrees*, so, with a chisel honed at 30, there is a few degrees of clearance. There is no fine adjustment, but it is easy to set pretty accurately without. As I say, I'll post later. S *Plus, with my long arbor fitted...

Interesting that you should ask this. I'm in the same process. I've made a prototype using a chisel rather than an L-shaped blade. It's just scrap from the woodpile, but it works well. I'll post a pic after I've been down to the workshop. I want Aldi to have their chisels again. I've worked out...

Does anyone have any tips for drilling holes in BS blade material? I have a box of blade which I ordered which are the wrong size. My fault. I ordered 3040 when I should have ordered 3430mm.... I used to have a nice home-made saw and fancy making one again. I do remember that the hardest part...

That is absolutely the right way to mould the ballusters. Many people (such as the bloke who made my SIL's very expensive oak staircase) would have just routed with a 45 degree cutter, so that one face has a straight lead out and the adjacent face has a curved one. He also dealt with the @two...

Yesterday I blocked up the legs from 2 pieces of 4x2, but I don't have pics. I'll take some when I work on them. I'm a bit disappointed that one board was very badly stained. I thought it was just the surface and it would plane off, but no, it goes right in. Not just blue, but orange, too. Never...

I would expect even a tiny machine to be able to tension 3/8, but it may well be at its limit. The wider the blade the more steel there is and so the harder it is to tension the blade. The strength of the frame itself is the limiting factor.

So how wide is the original blade and how wide is your Tuffsaws blade?

Every time you change the blade it will need setting up from scratch. No two blades are the same. It's not difficult, but the right things have to be done in the right order. Tuffsaw blades are the best, so if yours is giving disappointing results, it's the setup.

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