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QS also do a couple of smaller block planes. https://www.workshopheaven.com/hand-too ... lanes.html the 102 is probably ideal but I see that workshop heaven are sold out, you'll probably find it elsewhere or could drop them a line to find out how long till they restock (they're always very...

No jigs necessary for dovetails or box joints and after a little bit of practice it works well for these joints. If you want to use it instead of a router table or router with a fence then jigs become necessary, but nothing too complicated. It is possible to do most routing tasks with the...

Hi David, if you always use 2 push sticks and always stand to the side of the work and always use a riving knife and crown guard there is absolutely no way that a table saw can bite you. All table saw accidents are caused by incorrect usage, ignore America videos on table saw use, those guys...

If Festool are being 100% honest and machines are being damaged by using the adapter then the only mechanism I can see for this is that perhaps the adapter is not perfectly centered and this creates some side loading force that can (somehow) damage the gearbox. I wonder how good the QC is at...

I must say I'm rather with Bob's conspiracy theory on this. I am really struggling with the dynamics that would cause the gearbox to fail by using the adapter. If it were the other way around and the adapter allowed bigger bits to be used with the smaller machine I could see it, but how can...

By the time you've made that you could have learnt to use a hand plane. Once you've got used to sharpening the iron it really isn't that difficult and will completely transform your woodworking in so many ways and takes hardly any space and makes no noise and uses no power. I'm no master...

Totally agree Chris. I have one of those and love it. £20 really isn't that expensive. Paddy

Mark, whist there is room for improvement, you'd be surprised at how much better they'd look once you've glued them, clamped them and planned them flat. Paddy

Nolegs, just want to say I love your wheels. I saw a youtube vid once of some american making a mallet from melted down milk cartons. If I remember rightly the vid was quite annoying (they kept trying to be funny) but the mallet itself was pretty cool. Paddy

They used to make them in my workshop at Enfield Dock and then flood the workshop and float them out (long before I was there). Paddy

Pollys13 I have a biscuit jointed in my cupboard of power tools that I never use. I will have to check tomorrow when I go to work but I think it is a Makita and last time I used it (3 years ago?) it was fine. I want to have a big new year clean out at the dry dock and am going to ebay the tools...

Hi Beau, Have you seen the post from Chip Shop, he is looking to buy a Felder Universal for around 6k right now, maybe it's worth talking to him. Perhaps you could look at the jet 250 or 310 PT in axminster (currently on special offer) and possibly, if you want compact tools look into the...

Are these the chairs from the Alan Peters book? http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/article ... an-peters/

Thanks for that info Custard. I really want to make something rather than restore something. To be honest I always find finishing a nuisance and not nearly as satisfying as cutting and chopping. So as far as the rake is concerned, if the back is curved how does one measure the rake? Is it the...

Mike (woodbrains), that is a most generous offer, but the link Phil posted has a copy for a tenner so I should stop being a scrouge and buy that. Despite not having read it for some time I'll bet the minute you send it you'll want to refer to something in it. If you do want to give it away then...

Thanks Mike, I'll see if the library can get it for me. By the way, I don't "want" to use the domino, I just thought it would make the angled tenons easier/quicker. Paddy

For New Year gifts for my family (we're very secular in my family, Xmas takes second place to Hogmanay) I decided to make something for my brother, sister and parents. Whist I do a fair bit of woodworking in my job at a dry dock I rarely make free standing furniture. I made an ash coffee table...

Custard, how deep does the iron staining go? Can you sand/plane at all without revealing the lighter wood underneath? DW, I'm looking forward to seeing your plane progress. Regards, Paddy

You'd be gutted when you lost in the shavings bin. .

I really don't get the rational for that, are you sure Pete? I'm not saying you're wrong but why would it have a saw stop off feature? I mean if you have the saw stop feature why would you ever want to turn it off? Just in case you want to cut your finger off? I've heard people mentioning the...