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I use Abranet abrasives for general woodwork/furniture refurbishment projects and it's great - both the rectangular pads and circular discs - what I'd like to find is a similar "net abrasive" that's available in 110 x 100mm size to fit a hand-held sanding machine I have. Anyone know what might...

I've used waterslide transfer paper printed on a laser printer - works fine on painted surfaces - you need to leave the transfer to really dry (several days) and then mist coat with 2 or 3 passes of an aerosol lacquer (Halfords car stuff works fine) - the transfers also work on metal. BTW - do...

Nobody has mentioned yet that shellac is made from the secretions of the lac insect, a tiny scale insect! 🪳🪳🪳

It's tucked away at the back corner of the industrial estate . . . lots of good stuff from major brands including their own brand coloured woodstains.

In the depths of my mind (and about 65 years ago) I recollect the French master at school saying that in French that H is a "sort of vowel"

Another supplier of all things finishing and polishing : A G Woodcare at Bidford-on-Avon

... same scenario applies to hotel - strictly speaking it's pronounced "an otel" as it's a French derivative word where in many instances the h is silent.

What amazes me is the judges - the current crop is billed by Channel 4 as "The judges are entrepreneur and woodworking expert Sophie Sellu and design academic Tom Dyckhoff" - how either of them can qualify is beyond me - Sophie Sellu's experience appears to be carving spoons and making...

Yep - we painted our utility room walls (and ceiling) with that - Brewers own brand - excellent, easy to apply, hard-wearing and very wipable.

Katsu - or Makita if the odds were better . . .

Yep - that's what I was talking about - mine's like that but doesn't have the angle adjustment, just 90 degrees/vertical.

I have one that is similar to the first picture (red bits) BUT it uses a drill rather than having its own chuck needing a drill without a chuck. It clamps the body of the drill behind the chuck (i.e. an older style drill, usually corded) I use a corded Bosch drill in mine. It's excellent for...

A carpenter's mallet made from some oddments/offcuts of oak and red? hardwood I bought on ebay. To use the various pieces of timber I had to be creative with cutting and gluing pieces together to get the laminated effect and contrasting wedges. It's very much an "art piece" just produced for a...

It's a pity that Axminster no longer runs the on-site courses (stopped when the pandemic hit) - I spent 3 excellent days in January 2020 : 2 on routing and 1 on bandsaw work, especially setting up and safety.

Reagrdless of price Birch ply in top quality seems to be unobtainable ANYWHERE . . . . . I'd really like to be proved wrong as I have a project that needs a sheet and, within "a big reason", price is immaterial.

Just to keep up - I didn't use the Performance router much and sold it (with another 2 corded routers) when I upgraded to a battery router.

My conclusion is that it's in effect a Mole wrench - I shall be keeping it with my "treasured special old tools that don't get used" which include a square, mortise gauge, bevel and boxwood ruler that were my Grandfather's (and the square is possibly his father's before him)

Since my post I've been doing some research too - it looks as if it's a Speetog Patent Adjustable Clamp from the 1940s (although it doesn't look that old) - there seem to be a number of different Speetog products - all of which seem to be a sort of Mole wrench (the box of tools I bought also...

I've just acquired one of these as part of a box of tools I bought . . any idea what it might have been used for? It's about 150mm long, lower jaw adhusts with the knurled ring, the top pivots and locks/clamps with the trigger lever, made of forged steel by the look of it.

Ask Fiddes, they're at Cardiff IIRC - they were very helpful when I asked about refinishing some stuff - told them what the original was and they recommended the process and (Fiddes) product to use.