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The joy of the heger saw is that the clamping block holds the blade so it is always parallel to the cut and doesn't bend, which it must do if the top clamp is firmly fixed the the top arm. I must admit the little clamping blocks are a fiddle.

If I remember my Dutch, Nooitgedagt means: Never thought of. Interesting, as lovely as it is there must have been plenty of other similar wooden planes. Nice job though.

I have to say I haven't used a template since we had tinplate ones in first year at technical school. I've always marked the top of the tails and shoulder line and set the work at an angle so the cut is square and vertical. This is straight forward when you mark pins from tails but I can't quite...

Definitely, as agreed above. In my VW mini bus we had two glass sun roofs, on mornings such as we are enjoying at the moment ice formed on the inside. As the sun rose the seat under the glass would be wet and unpleasant but elsewhere in the bus where there was a thin pvc inner- lining no...

With all that to do I hope you still have youth on your side. We moved into a similar pile when we were 35 years old, with professional careers developing and 3 children under 4yrs. Everything took us twice as long as expected, after 5 years we just got used to living in a building site. Now...

I remember children doing that when they made jewellery boxes and finding they had made a staircase!! At the same time one lad made a really neat box from pine with dovetails. It was just after the Brixton Riots ( the school was just up the road from the action) and Charles and Dianna came to...

That brings back memories, in fact we still have one of the sideboards also from inlaws designed and manufactured by Heals. I believe my inlaws required ration points to get it, as did my parents, though their pieces haven't survived. I just had to look Utility up, this is from the V&A website...

I have a very old Graduate and I have a Sorby Patriot chuck, which has a left and right hand combined thread . I have no problem with using it either side. It is a bit small for a big bowl on the outside. I then use a face plate, (in the old fashioned way we did before we had a chuck with...

My first job in 1973, after Art school, was in the design department of Toy Works in Bideford, at the time the largest manufacturer of wooden toys in the country. We had a a massive mill available but to make the prototype doll's houses and garages which had lots of short small section pieces...

Lots of good advice above but life is too short for me to read all of it. My advice, as someone who taught children wood work a long time ago, is that practice surprisingly makes make perfect. The other more useful but dishonest is that if you are making a piece with a lot of pins and tails and...

I love the paneling flush with the frame, so much nicer than a the small recess so often a feature of panels. I made all my kitchen cupboard doors like that, 35 years ago, and I'm pleased with them every time I look at them. Very Arne Jacobsen. Martin

I'm sure you are sensible but in my experience woodwork machines are quite a different experience to metal working. Mostly to do with the much higher speed of the cutters and the totally different quality of timber to metal. I wouldn't presume to be able to plug in and go without some guidance...

If its ok to post 3D printing here, I'm rather pleased with myself to have made a 10cm tall little puppet with a trapped ball joint at the neck and integral hinges at the knees, wrists and elbows. Drawn and sliced on old versions of Sketchup & Cura as our old computer can't install modern...

I've found the Fiddes web site, thanks. What is the shelf life? Should I buy for what I need now or can I get a bigish tin and never worry about needing any more?

This is just the thread I've been looking for. I've made some coasters from Yew logs which look great without a finish but I don't know what to use on them. Any brands to buy or recommended suppliers would be very helpful. My local hardware shop, where I could just pop in and get almost...

Gas was a doddle, same side of the road, £600 no issues. Water, in the middle of the road, road closure £8000. Electric, other side of the road, £7000. That's interesting about the charges. We had gas connected to my son's house in Canterbury in 2014. It had to come across a main road (St...

It looks like Yew to me. A nice job whatever it is.

I'm sure you are right. When a child my grandmother and father drilled into us the "correct" way to pronounce words, though as I grew up in Saaff London there were lots of other influences. When I started teaching I worked in Brixton, where there was a very local mixture of South London...

This is very impressive. I presume that you turned the balls with stems, to attach them to the box but how did you hold the little dish at the top while you turned it? I presume that the stem of the ball passes through it, did you hold the dish in a jam chuck as you finished it? Your fine...

What a brilliant idea, and really nicely done. I especially like the trough with the sliding top. Cheers Martin