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Hello, I'm sure your 5 cut technique will be fine, once the table is travelling along the rail perfectly parallel to the blade. However, I have never needed to use that particular method. All the setup is done once the table is truly aligned, so setting the fence off a combination square set...

Hello, The set up of the table matters, absolutely. If the table is not running parallel to he sawblade, throughout the travel, no amount of pivoting the fence will compensate for making a square cut. I would take off the fence for now and ascertain if the mitre slot in the table is parallel...

Hello, Yep, I even have and use a 1/16 in chisel. If there is a gap that small that needs wood to be removed, then it will get used. You could argue that you should design to make life easier, and not make small joints; I suppose this is logical, but then you should design what you want, then...

Hello, Have you tried a kerfing plane? You'll have to make your own, but Tom Fidgen has some plans for one and are fairly simply constructed. It is basically a way of slotting the timber all round at the required thickness and then the rip saw follows the path of least resistance. Looks a good...

Hello, Cherry would be OK so would birch. Ash has a nice odour, but not too strong so might pass. I would steer clear from anything exotic, though. Those Russian chopping boards look like they have a lot of exotics in them. I actually think they look dreadful, too, but that is just my taste...

Hello, If the block was going to be used, I suspect there would be no request for a poncey random colour block layout. It sounds like a very interior designer, no practical use whatsoever, scenario to me! The reason I say this is, food prep should be on tasteless, odourless, non poisonous...

Hello, Another fan of making new. By the way, Gorrilla glue is not gap filling in the sense that woodworkers mean 'gap filling'. I have read quite a few remarks about polyurethane glue being gap filling on these forums and it is bad information. There is no bond strength with this glue if wood...

Hello, I am not aware of any guidelines for timber thicknesses and proportion and doubt very much there are any. In fact I would be very dubious if I ever came across such tables as to them having any use whatsoever! There are just simply too many variables involved. Something made to a...

Hello, The defective TS in the video is also badged as a Record Power TS250 RS-PK/A. I wonder if manufacturing QC is better on these which carry a 5 year garuntee. Mike.

Hello, Custard speaks sense, well, at least to me! There is a point where you can work faster and no longer enjoy the work, or make a mistake that takes longer to rectify than doing it right but steady the first time. You can design out details that take time and then dislike the thing you've...

Hello, If you don't have to use sandpaper, then good for you, I don't like sanding myself. Incidentally, even Krenov had a few sheets of fine sandpaper in his bench drawer, it was other people who stated he didn't use it and it is their legend that gets repeated. It was his aim rather than a...

Hello, I wonder what vegans expect happened to all the creatures, birds, squirrels, etc. that once lived in the beech tree that became the plane? I would just use hide glue and forget about the issue! :lol: I suppose, thinking about it, being vegan is rather like those who say they...

Hello, Keith Rowleys projects book has a good one in it. Mike.

Hello, I like your thinking, but no! All things equal here, so no loss either way. The big advantage is time planing versus time sharpening, so, on a good day when wood is behaving, 20 mins with the carbon steel will equate to an hour with the fancy alloy, but still for the same investment in...

Hello, So this is my take on things. I can sharpen any tool I need to to a very high degree and reasonably quickly. Fast enough for how I wish to work. So, I have a normal (whatever that means) carbon steel iron, that after grinding, takes 5 or 6 strokes of an 8000G water stone to produce a...

Hello, But no one has ever said this as a rule, now have they. You are making a false argument and then ridiculing your own nonsense. The script is usually something like, ' holds an edge longer and can be sharpened with the usual methods.' Or, ' holds an edge up to 3 times longer, and does...

Hello, I can vouch for this, Bob sorted me out with an inverter for my Elliott Progress drill press. It is brilliant. Mike.

Hello, The answer is simple, more abrasive sharpening media! Problem solved, if you let it. :D Mike.

Hello, It probably does exist and you'll never know since you are so dogmatic over Washita stones and stropping, which is one of the physical boundaries you are talking about! Don't forget, almost all steel is produced with a high bias towards ease of manufacture which is why cast steel is...

Hello, How did this get around to sharpening, the question was about differences in steels? Obviously sharpening is a factor, but should not be viewed independently from the steels abrasion resistance, toughness, hardness and what fineness of edge can be achieved. Here is a though though, if...