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£800 is extremely fair, I certainly wouldn't want to charge any less. Loading, unloading, protecting painted or otherwise finished work for transport, all this takes time, and should be chargeable otherwise you're cutting your own throat. I am constantly trying to remind myself to add 50%...

I've used both the Vitrex lash clips and those described by Baldkev. I prefer the reusable ones. The vitrex force you to use a deeper adhesive bed, and, and they tip up when used at the edge of a tile run, making utter hard to stop/start part way through a large job. They're also single...

Hi all, thanks for all your thoughts. The oft noted detail about ensuring the additional income doesn't incur tax which exceeds the pension benefit is a blindingly obvious one, yet I hadn't actually looked at it properly, so will double check. I wouldn't normally consider getting paid for...

I am a self employed carpenter/ handyman, and live with my wife and two children. I have been renovating my bathroom over the last couple of years, doing work sporadically around customer jobs, childcare needs etc. Recently my wife decided (not unreasonably) that this had been going on long...

Everyone should should read frets.com. Even if you have no interest in instrument repair Frank is a master at practical problem solving.

Could you mount a spring latch ( like you'd find on a door) to the drawer side? You'd then just reach over to sides and push the latch in to retract the drawer.

IIRC when I looked into doing similar a few years back, the tech sheets which specifically addressed this usage started the load capacity was reduced by two thirds. This was a deal breaker for me, it may not be for you.

I'm sure someone on here, possibly now decamped to the woodhaven, used to regularly post work in progress photos which showed a no.4 with a brass repair plate screwed/riveted across a crack in the casting. It looked a bit Frankenstein, but was his goto plane. Edit - here you go...

Instead of trying to pull it off from the edges, persuade the individual teeth up with a small screwdriver or awl. If you 'walk' it up the brass in several steps you'll struggle less. You can usually bend them quite badly and just knock 'em flat without any problems.

I always lever those off, without being unduly careful, then knock them roughly flat (usually using the side of a hammer as and anvil) before reusing.

If it's a viscount it is easily opened by drilling a small hole in the door and manipulating the levers. Likewise the Fortress, but that will require a tct tipped drillbit as the levers are protected by a hardened plate, so more of a challenge.

Either of those locks have anti saw rollers in the bolt, which are hardened steel rollers loosely fitted in the brass bolt. When the grinder hits then they'll spin, and be a real bugger to get through.

It looks like an Era fortress to me, though it could be a viscount. What colour is the case you see through the keyhole?

I had to shim two rows of floor boards for a customer, to soften the transition between old and new floorboards. I used hardboard, thinned to circa 2mm and then feathered into a wedge with a combo of block plane and 1" chisel. Hardboard seems to have 'strata' which pare/plane apart quite...

Looking very nice, the cherry and castillo box looks sympathetic if atypical. I think cherry may be one of of my favourite woods. I made a tele style neck using cherry for a MIMF $100 guitar challenge, a it was lovely to work, and aged to a really nice mid tone, with subtle shimmer. The close...

I just reassembled one of these for a client who dismantled it to treat it for woodworm, then couldn't puzzle- out how it went back together. The staves are oak, no sign of glue or any treatment to seal it. The circular ends are profiled to about 6mm thick, and slot into a groove cut into the...

I know lots of guitar folks use tables to route solid bodies, bit I tried it a couple of times and then said ""hell no". If a hand held router kicks, you have both hands on the router handles, well away from the cutter. If a table kicks, it can dissapear the work piece in an instant, leaving...

My solution for binding a LP was a simple base for the router to sit on, mounted on a block about 2 inches tall, bolted to the bench, with the router overhanging so you could pass the guitar over the router base. Idiotically simple, but it worked. I think if you Google the Setchell carved...

Looks like you've decided against tortoise bindings now, but if you do go that route, I'd recommend a narrow white/ivory strip inside the tortoise. The the colour variation in tortoloid is very transparent in the light areas, so if you use it over a dark background like your RW it will look...

It seems churlish to pile on further, but look at the chatter/tear out on the edge of the base when he's cleaning up his mortice with the router plane. If it looks like that now, is going to look 10 times worse with finish applied.