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Re No 5, I knew a guy back in the 80's who was working in a timber yard cutting fencing timber on a big wadkin with a 2ft blade, as they were on piecework speed was of the essence so when he was put on changing dimensions he didnt turn the saw off first just left it running & adjusted the fence...

A neighbour was building an extension last year & had a bunch of mates helping him, none of them seemed to have a clue about safety, heaps of crap everywhere, cutting blocks & stone with no goggles etc, classic was me & another neigbour watching them hoist an air con unit up to the first floor...

It doesnt look like Sapele to me, not stripy enough. I think its just a good african mahogany. I have had tons of similar over the years, mostly out of old furniture. Often it was veneered over with walnut & often in surprisingly big wide bits.

East coast fibreglass do a good range of all sorts of resins inc epoxies, primary problem with filling voids is getting air bubbles out or degassing.

On the plus side though the solicitors have been poor the estate agent i used (Armistead Barnett) have been absolutely first class, highly professional & efficient. Nothing was too much trouble & they have gone above & beyond what anyone could expect in these times.

I know one man in the Uk who does most of his work by hand. Paul King of Kings studio. Does furniture restoration etc He does own a few machine tools but most of his work is done by hand with antique tools to a huge degree of skill. He isnt on you tube but really should be.

I didnt use solicitors for my parents probate as i applied for probate myself. It was time consuming but not difficult. But selling their house afterwards has been the biggest most royal pain in the harris ever. Buyers that ponce about & dither then back out, solicitors that ignore all...

I popped round a mates house years ago & him and another bloke were building some rustic exercise equipment, basically a tree trunk with wooden bars stuck out of it, idea was for it to be stood upright in the ground with sandbags hung off them. They had managed to drill & mangle some large...

I just made a new stock for an Original model 6 match air pistol, standard one was horrible plastic & didnt fit me. New stock & grips took about 2 hours to bandsaw out & rough shape, It took another 6 hours to finish shaping it, another 6 hours to do the inletting for the action which was quite...

I had an old Titan that came out of Wickes, used it for 20 years then one day i was cleaning a boat out that had been sunk. The vac hose fell into a locker & sucked up a lot of sea water. The vac kept running even though it was full to the brim & the ball shut of didnt operate. Sea water...

A friend of mine has a sticker on his van, "Be thrifty til you'r fifty, then spend till the end". Not a bad way of looking at it. My parents retired aged 60, they had a good income from pensions & investment bonds & bought what they wanted, Dad bought all the tools he ever wanted & used them...

I sort of retired last spring. After being self employed most of my life & working a lot on my own I ended up working in a school as a D&T technician, at times it was a great job & at others horrible. A long term injury was getting to the point where i couldnt do the heavy work anymore & I was...

Stunning wood, we had three good ones in our garden, plus a number of small ones. One medium tree one had to go when we built an extension & another got box moth, strangely the largest tree seems to have resisted them so far. We have gotten rid of the little ones as they were riddled with it...

I used to work in a school where we had a much used laser cutter. The fumes from them are carcinogenic. Usually you will be cutting organic materials such as wood, birch plywood, veneers & plastic such as acrylic. Polypropylene can be cut but not well as the edge melts too much. PVC is an...

When my dad died i donated most of the tools i didnt want to keep to a local mens shed, A few years later another shed sprang up a lot closer, i donated a load of tools to them as well. I have visited them & they are well meaning, what i saw was far too many machines crammed in far too close...

Anti climb paint is good on top of walls & anywhere that could get climbed. I had a workshop a few years ago that was very remote & slapped the stuff on all over the place. Its thick black tarry stuff that magically transfers itself to everything. A week after i applied it i came in one morning...

My workshop is pretty well sorted now, new driveway & drainage last year, Then a big blitz on the workshop itself this year. Made new steel doors that open easily & are secure, Replaced the roof completely & sorted out the gutters, rewired it with new lights. And i still found time to make...

I use a syntheticstraight cutting oil in my Harrison 140, its simply that soluble oil (suds) has a limited shelf life & needs to be changed regularly, Also tends to gum up with crud on the machine if its not used all the time. The straight oil leaves the machine pristine all the time. It smokes...

I worked in the boat trade for most of my life, ever since boats started being built with fibreglass the issue of copying has been an issue within the industry, this is because someone can take an existing boat & take a mould from it then go into production themselves without so much as a by...

This is very true, but its such a vast field & to be honest there is such a vast over supply of stuff that much of it is becoming increasingly more worthless by the day as nobody wants it any more. Picking what is worth the money is where its at!