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Clearing some sheds for an elderly friend of the family last year, mostly absolute junk, whire wheel mounted on a washing machine motor that kind of thing! But one thing you thankfully dont see that often was a blue & orange cardboard refill pack of Rawlplug asbestos plugging compound, Proper...

A couple of years ago i bought a plastic welding gun, the intruction book was so bad it is wonderful, such gems as "For melting the hot plasiky materiel", "Do not use in water as electrikery death may result!". But the biscuit must be taken by the writers of the manual for RD Works, its a...

It was going to happen sooner or later.

This bloke has a circ saw mounted on an angle grinder ,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox93snKVuaM&t=186s, For me this takes the biscuit making an already dangerous tool absolutely lethal. The problem is that although he is obviously a skilled chippy by sticking video of it on you tube he will...

As Samhay says, Western red cedar is nasty stuff, just as bad as Iroko if not worse, I have to be extremely careful if machining or sanding it following a scare about 15 years ago. I will not touch a sander or saw to it without a respirator.

another vote for Meranti often known as Philipine mahogany, its a very variable timber related to Luan which is extremely light & soft. Meranti will vary from pink to deep dark red almost purple colour, his will depend on where the tree grew. I have two large boards that I bought a few years...

Well if you are a complete noob, best thing to do is get some tools & learn some skills. But CNC gear was always expensive, then yesterday i saw this on fb, https://www.maslowcnc.com/, A large format 8x4 CNC router that cab hang on your workshop wall, where the hell was this 30 years ago when i...

I would go with pitch pine also, It is quite a variable timber.

You can buy gun cleaner for PU foam applicator guns, The PU foam is a very closely related product to gorrilla glue. It works well, but i have no idea if it works on the cured stuff.

Scarphing to make it longer is perfectly acceptable, just use a long scarph of 7:1 min preferably longer, when building wooden masts i use 12:1.

Gutter Adze, concave blade for hollowing, excellent condition. £75 ono Located in south essex can post.

And then there is Mr Marcaille, a classically trained French Cellist of great musical skill who has taken Metal shaken it up & dispensed with all the unnecessary stuff like band mates, singers with egos & arguments as to how it should sound, all distilled into the essence of metal! ...

Planet rock did some lockdown sessions recently, Sat night & repeated last night, very good. Samantha fish played a superb acoustic set from her living room. She is also doing a live set every Friday on facebook, tonight is cigar box guitar session so should be good!

A few years ago i got given a BS10 Rexon bandsaw. I wasnt expecting much but its really quite a capable little machine for its size.

Well its getting a bit more real for us, a bloke i used to know died of it two weeks ago & a good friend from the yacht club died of it in east london a day ago. Both were about 60 years old.

Thanks for that, amazing musician.

Well its done, all repairs done, all sanded down & three coats of Ronseal satincoat polyurethane varnish. I was quite impressed with the varnish its easy to apply & goes off quickly. I was going to fit a ceiling trim & cornice but was vetoed by my wife, the room ceiling slopes down enough at...

A bloke i used to know had a barn full of the stuff, it had come from vats in a tannery & was well over a century old. The surface was dry & dusty some still with the tanning residue stuck to it. Cut into it over 1/8" & it was perfect. Machining it was interesting, My big dankaert circular saw...

Well it wasnt tomorrow as things got in the way! Back on the job & the tracksaw was busy. My last hand held circular saw was an old metal cased black & decker dating back to the mid 60's, that was lucky to cut within 1/8" of the line, the festool was a revelation, smooth prescise cuts with no...

You will soon know when you try & run a plane across it, Greenheart is hellish hard, rather like trying to plane cast iron!