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Hello, Dr Bob, noted; I wasn't fixated on doing kitchens, it was just a preliminary thought. I have done some before, but more along the lines of sideboard/dresser in a more modern style, along with dining tables, benches, larder cupboards etc. When I say freestanding it could be fitted, or...

Hello, I'm not thinking narrow, freestanding kitchens was just one of many thoughts that cross my mind. People will always buy them in some form or other, so I thought it might be a starting place. I am fully open to any suggestions, as wild and whacky as you like. Marquetry and petra dura IT...

Hello, It's not a lot to do with how you market it, it is almost entirely to do with it! But I've not met anyone, Custard re-enforcing this, who has the silver bullet solution of how to. Anyone have any clues? And about never going back, I have been bitten once and should have more sense to...

Hello, Custard, I had stuff in interior design shops last time. In fact I have a few small items in a gallery in Knutsford at the moment, and West Kirby. How does it work exactly? The gallery mark up makes an already dear thing into a ridiculously unsalable thing IME. I looked at a place in...

Hello, I have to say that if you 'did' try to design a creative business, you would frighten the living daylights out of yourself. I remember one of these business start up types calculating how much hourly take a one man band would need to gain to get X salary a year, a couple of weeks...

Hello Chris, I did consider tuition, years ago in fact. When we first met, when you visited me in the workshop in Wallasey, I had just moved from a workshop I tried to get going in North Wales. The idea was that it would be an enticing place for learners to come for woodwork tuition; it would...

Hello, I have been getting more and more dissatisfied with my job in school over the last few years; the new Design Technology curriculum, which is total bunkum, being a part and the disenfranchised kids being another. This last term has been particularly soul destroying and I have to do...

Hello, Just put the last bit of spit and polish on mine tonight. Will post tomorrow. Hope the recipient likes what I've made them! :| Mike.

Hello, Another discount code; 648VPVB Just ordered my sander, have kitchen counter tops to refurbish. Mike.

Hello, Beware the measurements in the book. Unless the book has been reprinted with an edit since I got mine, some of the measurements extrapolated from the drawings don't tally with the printed dimensions. I asked James which to go with if there was a discrepancy, and he told me always the...

Hello, There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, it is how we learn. But accepting mistakes is wrong; we cannot learn if we accept them as part of the process. You have to strike a balance; do something, whatever it is, without letting the idea of attaining perfection prevent you from the...

Hello, Jacob, no, a saw board is not even in the same league. Apart from the fact that the track will protect the upper surface from spelching when cutting across grain. The plunge of the saw means that only a score line need be made in the sacrificial board (MFT) The dust extraction is...

Hello, Up until now, no. I actually machined up some 3/4 inch dogs, so I could use my Veritas planing stops in conjunction, to help with squaring up. I haven't actually got around to making the MFT table yet, though. I have just been using the tracksaw with careful marking out, though I...

Hello, This system is for cutting sheet goods in the main. It is an inexpensive substitute for a panel saw, or a portable site solution for high end fitting. It is remarkable that a tracksaw, a bit of MDF and a couple of dogs can enable a craftsman to cut sheet goods veneered MDF etc. That can...

Hello, Just come across these, http://www.axminster.co.uk/ujk-technolo ... 1_superdog Look like they would add increased precision to this set up. They would also solve the problem of dissimilar thicknesses of material letting the track butt up to the parf dogs at a different point due to...

Hello, I think I am an old duffer, (50) but having worked in a school workshop for 6 years or so, I actually watched all 3 videos linked by CC, concurrently. I think my threshold for youthful exuberance must be high. Does it count as a skill? I was quite envious of his set up, his forge...

Hello, I did it once years ago. The stuff to ask for is '.880 ammonia'. It is very corrosive and will kill your lungs if you get a whiff. Outdoors only, in a polythene tent. Pour it into a shallow glass dish to allow easy evaporation into the tent. Place several offcuts into the tent, along...

Hello, And the back, which he polished flat. The acid etch would have made it irregular, essentially pitted. Mike.

Hello, That isn't why he did it, though. Mike.

Hello, This is sensible. Although the bevel is on the outside, many carvers put a slight back bevel on the inside. The reason being, the outside bevel is often too steep for the user to get a comfortable carving position, when the bevel is in rubbing mode on the work. So reducing the bevel...