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Back in november i got covid, felt awful for a week & took a fair while to recover, tested negative after 10 days but that was the day a mate of mine was to deliver 2 1/2 tons of teak floorboards to my shed, I couldnt put it off so the two of us unloaded it outside & then i stacked the lot...

Buy the punch set. When you have mashed the end of the pin with a nail that then chews the alloy casting up you will wish you had.

Walnut.

Trouble is at the moment we are in a recession that shows no signs of getting better, Big machines are going to be hard to sell. I recently advertised a flamefast brazing hearth, Good machine in perfect working order, it just didnt sell so i had no alternative but to break it up & scrap it. The...

Big old machines are worth very little because 1) There are a lot of them on the market, 2) They need space not many people have so are not desirable by Diy people. I would suggest that if a dealer offers £900 for the lot i would bite his arm off. I am in a similar position with father in laws...

I just use citric acid, Its available on amazon & ebay as foor grade & is cheap as chips. Bucket of warm water half a cup of citric granules, quick stir & drop your bits in. If heavily rusted might need a couple of days but usually overnight will do. Scrub off black residue with soft wire brush...

Heres the most recent thing i made, finished just before Xmas, It is going as a Xmas present to our sons girlfriend who is an excellent musician. 3 String cigar box guitar using a very old battered pine box that i was given a few years back. Its fitted with a Rod piezo pickup & preamp. Pitchpine...

I do like that homemade frame saw, makes real sense. Now if you coupled it to a rowing machine to give the motive power it would be perfect!

I too doubt that that is ivory, its too uniform white. In any case if you remove the "ivory" & replace it with plastic the table was still made that way, One hundred years down the line the elephant it may have come from certainly doesnt care. Personally i would tell her to go elsewhere & get it...

I havent been to a good tool shop for years. We used to have Fardons in Southend closed about 35 years ago the old boy that ran it had been a Pow on the burma railway & wouldnt have anything japanese in his shop. The place was full of everything high quality a man could want. Then Marshall &...

I remember working on an old wooden trawler down Old leigh in 82 using a big 240v mains drill, the power cable came out of the sailmakers across the dock underwater then over the wharf & down to the boat, It was winter time & very wet. We kept getting small shocks off the steel rail capping &...

First pic could be oak or ash , second could be cherry but its too light & grey, maybe the article has been bleached or fumed?

I have one just like it, got it out of a skip about 30 years ago! Great tools.

Bit expensive for oilstones at £5 a pint as charged in our local pub!

^^^^^ The Vet is probably using liquid paraffin, it is used for human use as a laxative. I have no idea if its any use as honing oil! I have a fair collection of stones by now the red india ones i dont really like, My favorites are a pair of old grey stones of unknown make or composition, quite...

I find her fixed grin a bit too much & gets irritating, but good for a short while. Like many other you tubers seems to have low regard for self preservation round table saws.

The Philplug stuff was the same as Rawlplug asbestos plugging compound (that was an orange & blue tin) Both used proper blue asbestos, you could also buy cardboard refill boxes of the stuff. Must be loads of it pluging walls in many old houses. Three guys i knew who worked for local builder...

I have used a lot of epoxy over the years mainly West & SP Systems, as far as i can tell both are identical products. It is well known that epoxies have a shortish shelf life, this applies mainly to the hardeners where a colour change happens from honey colour to darker brown, its accompanied by...

If it simply has to go on a pallet make damn sure its bolted down to the pallet well. Lower the knee right down & crank the head of the machine over to keep the centre of gravity as low as possible. Take the handles off at the very least, Remember the leadscrew & possibly table stick out beyond...

My first boatshop was a 1500sq ft north facing cowshed on the side of a barn, It was ok in the summer until the sun came round & hit the asbestos roof at midday then the temperature rocketed. In the winter it was freezing cold & no amount of space heating got it warm. I fitted a big homemade...