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Jacob only you could have an argument with what I did not say rather than what I did "Tune up" is only exaggerated if you imply something into the phrase "Maybe" becomes "needed". The vast majority of old blades are good or better hence I said "maybe" You are lucky never needing to replace a...

Whether a LN is worth the money comes down to whether you want to spend time tuning a plane or spend money to reduce the amount of tuning. As you have seen you can get a good second hand plane for a fraction of the price of a LN . You run a risk with what you buy and then have to tune it up and...

In my spare moments I am in the process of filling boxes, I am putting about 15kg in each as I noticed that some couriers will ship this for under a tenner. I think I currently have enough to fill 6 boxes. The wood is mostly oak of various sizes and some cherry, parana pine and ash. When I...

There was an article about them in FWW a while back. They thought that they were efficient but things are different this side of the pond. I would be worried about the humidity in the workshop and the wood.

OK. I better get some boxed up. I am based just south of Uttoxeter

I made a similar thing six months ago and hung the doors on the bottom rail of the box to drop down and used a hopper window catch with finger loop as otherwise I would have had the same problem. Plus as Mike said you would not need to be far off plumb to make a large difference to hitting or...

I use a lot of oak and I currently burn the off cuts! I keep wondering if there is any interest if I boxed up the off cuts and offered them on here FTAGH. for example yesterday I started making 3 windows and have off cuts of 100x 68 and 100x57 circa 200-300mm long currently in my fire wood...

Mike I understood the aim. But your design requires a longer length of footings to be dug and more concrete. It is just that the concrete is precast rather than site cast. You also say crushed concrete in the footings. My method minimises the overall length of footings, concrete and brick by...

I built my workshop/shed off three honeycombed dwarf walls. I dug and installed strip footing (the width of the shed) just in from each end of the shed and one central. then built three courses of honeycomb wall and fixed a wall plate on DPC above. I then ran the floor joists the length of...

Mike, I agree with what you say but your analogies did not go far enough. Not only does the OP want to learn to drive a Rolls Royce or Ferrari but he wants to do so whilst competing in a Grand Prix. Whilst I admire the ambition of taking a plane out of its box and setting about a large live...

Wow. You want to buy your first plane and then use it to hand finish two live edge tops. One brown oak the other beech. If you have never used a plane before (an assumption based on “first plane”) then can I suggest you learn to plane and sharpen a plane before you start worrying about the...

You need to match the extractor to the machine’s stated requirement. It is unlikely that a Planer/thicknesser only requires 850m3/hr extraction. Most require about 3 to 4 times that level of extraction. As for the rest read Siggy7’s extraction thread.

Novocaine: Only in relation to consumer contracts so if you as a consumer (Joe Public) buy from a retailer then the Consumer Rights Act now applies. But if as a cabinet maker you buy a machine from your favourite machine manufacturer or seller, the Sale of Good Act still applies.

Novocaine: The Sale of Goods Act has not been revoked. It gets amended from time to time but is still in force

It only applies to businesses (who market/sell machinery or put equipment into use). It does not cover what joe public does in the privacy of his shed.

When I built my bench I deliberately built it with the vice on the left and the tail vice on the right because I was that used to using a right handed bench it just did not feel right planing or sawing from the other side. I sometimes wonder if I was mad, but it is what you get used to. So if...

Get some appropriate Tuff Saws blades and see how you get on with good quality blades

It would be worth contacting a specialist insurance broker and telling them precisely what you require. There is no point imagining that all policies cover the same public liability and product liability issues.

I use the same sort of set up to make very small shallow (1-2mm deep) housings (dado) in box and drawer dividers rather than halvings. It allows you to make repeatable housings a set distance from one en.

I have always taken the view that if those of us that believe that climate change is real and man made and we need to act, we may save the human race. If we are wrong then society has arguably spent time and effort dealing with something unnecessarily but they survive albeit arguably a little...