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Hello, Can't help with a supplier, but everything that jig does can be done on a router table anyway. Something to fit the mitre slot for the notch cuts should be easy enough to knock together, if you don't have a mitre gauge with a sacrificial fence. I make birds mouth mortice and tenons with...

Hello, The linear dimensions are read directly from your plan. You can buy any lengths you want from the timber supplier to within about 300 mm. No calculator necessary. Mike.

Hello, Are they putting motors on Stabila levels and Estwing hammers the days? Possibly, I do remember having a Black and Decker tape measure that had a motor on it!!! ( It was a present from someone who didn't know better) My worst power tool was an Axminster own brand biscuit jointer. I...

Hello, To be fair, table alignment might not be quite as bad as I made out, on a standard 1619. Mine had a custom fence set up and RH table extension that I didn't want to remove when I realigned my table. If you take the table extension off and both side covers off the cabinet, it will likely...

Hello, You can't adjust the fence, the main extrusion is fitted onto the clamp head with a locating fin which is slid into the slot along the bottom of the extrusion and then bolted. The fence rails can be moved a little on the 3 bolts that fix them to the table. There might be enough wiggle...

Hello, Have you tried mixing a dye with Danish oil? Colron seen to have stopped making their oil compatible dye, which I have used successfully, but Rustins still make one, and the Danish oil as well. Mix the oil and dye and test on some scrap for colour. The oil stops some dye penetration into...

Hello, Does anyone else think it a bit paradoxical, that the light sapwood is unacceptable, so the walnut must be all dark; then it will be mixed with with maple for contrast?! Why not try to design a product that uses the natural and beautiful contrast between sap and heartwood. Infinitely...

Hello, Is this for sawn or is the timber yard supplying planed stuff. For sawn it is steep. The boards would start off as 2 inch thick sawn to be planed down. Waney edged oak might cost about 46 quid a cubic foot. (That metric nonsense is awful big numbers for realistic sized stuff) With...

Hello, I agree with your sentiments about people wanting pain free ways to get things done quickly theses days. Part of the fun in learning are the frustrations encountered along the way. If it were easy, who would want to do it? However, I'm certain lots of the jigs we have nowadays are only...

Hello, £62 a cube is very reasonable. If they have it buy it all! Mike.

Hello, TBH how much do these cutters actually need to be reshaped. Unless someone has been trying to plane shrapnel, they are usually just dull or with slight nicks and chips. I have never seen them so far off, they need grinding. It is surprising how quickly they can be reformed with just...

Hello, That doesn't look 'farmhouse' to me. If it is your taste, then fine, but that is heavily influenced by Gothick (Victorian Gothic revival) ecclesiastical furniture. Something that you'd find in church as an altar, say. IMHO it is a bloody lousy design for a dining table and would need...

Hello, How many frames do you envisage making? If it is just a few for yourself and friends, then perhaps a manual mitre saw is best. Nobex proman is quite good. I recently got an Ulmia 352 on eBay. They are about the best you can get but mentally expensive new. I got mine in need of heavy...

Hello, Is using a Veritas marking gauge accurate enough to prove anything? Have you not got a Forstner bit to try the same test with? Your test can only be as accurate as your testing apparatus, and I don't believe it is. Mike

Hello, Sorry, I missread the cutters actually cut 52.5. :oops: Might just have been a custom job only the original user was privy to. Sometimes internal cornice angles, for example are not 45/45 degrees, but 52/38 so the cornice fits into the internal corner taller and narrower. Perhaps the...

Hello, The cutters might be ground at 52.5 but once bedded in the plane would create a different angle on the work, I'm guessing 45 degrees! Mike.

Hello, ENGINEER!! Mike.

Hello, I'm sure it works extremely well, but infills are generally more beautiful than other planes, often the only reason having them over more pedestrian offerings. This defeats it's purpose on that score. Mike.

Hello, Just came across this on WH website. I though the QS router was ugly, but this is worse. https://www.workshopheaven.com/quangshe ... plane.html What is going on? Mike.

Hello, Spring is effected by planing the boards ever so slightly hollow along the length. The cramps used will pull the gap together, the sprung joint puts extra pressure along the length. The purpose of doing so is to use less cramps, usually because too few are available to do the job if the...