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Hello, I did some training at the Redwoods. Strictly speaking Krenov had retired a year before, but was always around. I was also lucky enough to visit his home and workshop and examined some of his furniture. His horizontal drill/slot morticer was originally an add on to his tablesaw. The...

Hello, Krenov actually ground his own drills at one time, something akin to a modern split point drill. Perhaps at the time he could not get good quality lip and spur drills. I know number and letter drills were available at the College of the Redwoods, where he taught, but I suspect when...

Hello, And make what in the meantime? A more optimistic person might have that attitude that for a mere 140 you can do all the things a domino can do and with all the accuracy and speed! And for a hobbyist, that would be the correct attitude, a domino would be immense overkill. I have looked...

Hello, Transatlantic, have you considered these: http://www.rutlands.co.uk/sp+woodworkin ... essem+8350 I've not tried one, but the principle looks sound and the quality of the product is certainly there. Mike. Currently listening to Transatlantic.

Hello, Yes, dowels definitely have their place in fine furniture. I often dowel carcases together, tops and bottoms with overhangs, to the sides. It is a great way of doing so and plenty strong. I always make a 'jig' for the job though, it is nothing more than a baton with holes drilled into it...

Hello, It is a perennial problem, how to educate the buying public what quality is compared to the rubbish offerings in shops. But most makers are small outfits with no medium to educate through, they simply do not have the means for widespread education and advertisements. So the problem...

Hello, I agree, it has always been so. Wasn't it Liberty of London who started by copying Arts and Crafts furniture in factory piece work workshops, when the whole point of Arts and Crafts was to eschew the oppression of factory workers? A great irony but people got wealthy. It is the...

Hello, Was just reading this tread and an Oak Flipping Furniture Land banner appeared along the bottom. It is all the same, imported garbage made be the poor. It makes me sick. However, I don't believe it is cheap copies that make it difficult for British makers to earn a living,it is just...

Hello, Leaving Hawaii? I'd be more inclined to bring a lifetime supply of Curly Koa with me, than a tablesaw! Mike.

Hello, I suppose it depends on the size of a dinky little router, but most larger ones people use in router tables have springs that must be at least strong enough to raise the router's weight, otherwise they'd be useless. Mike.

Hello, There are lots of other makers furniture on those pages and there seems to be endless numbers of pages! I wonder if the images are just speculative, copied and pasted from lots of other websites, in the attempt to make his website look impresive. But also as speculative images, that can...

Hello, They look cool, but max loading of 3 kilos might just be too flimsy. Springs in plunge routers can be pretty beefy. There are loads of workable solutions to router lifts that are not nearly as complex as that cable driven job in the video. I like it, though, but suspect there may be...

Hello, American electricity is 60Hz, and I believe motors will not work well, if at all. In any case the motor speed would be slower. I was considering a move in the opposite direction many years ago, and IIRC I found that motors work from UK to USA but not the other way round, something...

Hello, Which is why I say you can never have the 3 desirable qualities from sharpening stones. If the OP uses 1000 diamond and a strop, he is obviously gaining 'cheap' by only using one stone despite diamond plates not being exactly cheap per se. But that system is going to be slow, if that...

Hello, I doubt you'll find a furniture maker or woodcarver that would agree with this, though, so perhaps you should include some sort of disclaimer! :D However, as CC has said here and myself countless times before, the Norton fine India followed by a Welsh slate is excellent and for the...

Hello, With sharpening stones, the old adage applied here: you can have any 2 out of the three! Cheap, fast but not good; cheap, good but not fast; or fast, good but not cheap. TBH only the last 2 are worth a punt and when you get serious only the last one. Sharpening really is a means to an...

Hello, I was brought up with that book, mine was my dad's probably his dad's before him. Before it fell apart completely, it still had crayon drawn ' designs' in the fly leaves from when I was a baby nearly 50 years ago. Loved that book so much I got another copy a couple of years ago. It is so...

Hello, Both the saws you shortlist have the sliding table which rides right up to the saw blade, but do not have a scoring blade. In my opinion this is not good as it is very difficult, perhaps impossible to make a close tolerance throat plate for the blade, to eliminate splintering of the...

Hello, Look, for some light duty work, they may be OK, but consider this : I have destruction tested bridle joints, mortice and tenon etc, and what did i use to apply the pressure: G cramps! They did not even come close to the maximum pressure available to the g cramps, nor my hand strength. I...

Hello, They look absolutely useless! Sorry to sound negative, but the pressure required for a glue up would exceed the destruction point of that clamp by a phenomenal amount. But then I don't think the guy understands how glue works, from some of the things he's witten. Mike.