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STOP ASKING THE SAME BL@@DY QUESTION OVER AND OVER AND OVER, I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF IT, i CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE HAPPY WITH THE ANSWERS YOU'VE GOT? ARGGGHHHHH, YOUR DOING MY HEAD IN. See above for example of stropping (hammer) Paddy

Hope I didn't come across as ars@y, I was/am genuinely interested in what kind of magnification is useful for wood identification. I notice that in my not very extensive 30 minutes research the images under electron microscopes of wood samples are at relatively low magnification, achievable...

Richard, was mention of an "electron" microscope a typo? . Standard light/lens microscopes go up to around 2000x, surely that would be more than sufficient to look at cellular structure in wood. We had an electron microscope many years ago at my university when I was doing an archaeology degree...

I don't know about Swann, but Alessandro Volta, the inventor of the first battery did do it by taste. He noticed that copper and zinc on his tongue together had a different taste to either individually, and thought it might be related to static charges he had been researching. A couple of weeks...

How do you know what lightbulubs taste like?

I'm curious, in your opinion what things did he cheap out on?

I crosscut in the vice all the time. Sometimes I do catch the edge of the bench, my solution is just to not care. It helps if the front face of the vice is proud rather than flush to the apron ( as in helps not to catch the bench rather than helps not to care). Paddy

I too do not get on with my wheel gauge, mostly because the lines are too faint/shallow. Inspired by yesterdays thread I made a fixed distance mortise gauge last night. It's 8mm which I reckon is my most used size, it's to match the 8mm cutter in my domino which I often use as a mortiser with...

That's a really good idea Mike, one that is so obvious I can't really think why I've never thought of it. I'm going to try and speed through my work tomorrow and make a set of mortise gauges. Thanks, Paddy

Come on, old stanley jointer in reasonable nick~£100, the norris in the advert ~£3000. The norris is obviously 30 times better. Can't argue with that, that's science. Paddy

It certainly would appear that your table isn't flat. Do you have a reliable straight edge you can put across the table?

I use West Systems a lot and it's great stuff, particularly for marine applications. However I don't think I would use it in this scenario mostly because it has a really long cure time and also because it is so expensive. The cure time might not matter to you but for me, when I want to fill up a...

Fair play, I believe you. I don't want you gone, to be honest I didn't want him gone, in my opinion he was unnecessarily rude, but a ban seems excessive, but it's not my call. I miss Jacob!!!

Guys, guys, guys. What does it matter? "Beuker" is free to post here. I think you'll find he has a very similar knowledge base to PalmRoyale, and perhaps he will be a little more polite than his "friend". Now both of you go to your sheds immediately and make something nice.

I heard people can even change their identity on the internet!!!

CC is absolutely correct. What strikes me is how insecure the OP must feel. I constantly marvel at the range of skills that I see on this forum. I know about boat building and repairs, both in steel and wood (although my knowledge of glass fibre is rather limited) and imagine that most who did...

Hi Notnick, I would be surprised if you found that grooves or housings were quicker on the table saw than the router table. You need to make many passes then clean up with a chisel or router plane. Rebates can be quick on on the TS as you can do them with only two cuts. If you only have a few...

If it were me I'd spend a couple of grand on old Wadkin machines and 8 grand taking my daughter to the Great barrier Reef. Seriously though, If I had some real money to spend I would spend it on a decent spindle, with power feed and quality tooling and decent wide planer thicknesser . I'm not...

Good to hear that Shane is getting plenty of business, I've never seen one of his saws in the flesh but the pictures and reviews suggest they are top notch. I read your OP and you say you are not interested in second hand so feel free to ignore me, but the fact remains that if you use a saw it...

You probably already all know/do this, but just in case not....where possible make relief cuts on all tight radius cuts.This is obviously ony possible when the convex side is the keeper and the concave the waste. Paddy