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If this is a batch production run, you should be thinking "jigs" from the outset. And a pillar drill. for repeatablilty and accurate depth control. John is right: a Forstner drill for the large hole first and run the centre hole located by the pip in the middle (that bit is easy!). To eliminate...

It's not dryness as such. Imagine you had to construct the branch-to-trunk joint of a heavy bough from steel, rather than it growing naturally. Imagine the bending forces that have to be counteracted. The trunk immediately above (and the top part of the bough) will be in considerable tension...

Thanks for taking the trouble to go through this - really useful stuff!

Really sorry to hear. It happened to me some years back with specialist audio and camera gear - you feel violated. Make sure you list absolutely everything for the insurers. It's shocking how much small items add up to.

0. Use the search function to find the very frequent discussions on this topic. People have been very helpful. 1. Be more specific about what you want to do with a drill press: woodwork, metalwork, big holes, little holes, sanding... 2. I probably couldn't build a small bookcase profitably...

Also consider using a soft pencil - you do have to look after the point more than with HB or harder, but the graphite can be removed more easily, in my experience. Personally, after using an ordinary rubber, I wipe with meths, as that doesn't seem to raise grain as easily. You can also get...

I use a Wacom Intuos, on Xubuntu Linux as my main pointing device (no mouse), USB or bluetooth. The active area is A5, which is enough for me. It's nicely programmable, it has four assignable "buttons" on the pen (the tip, two on the side and the "eraser"), and eight assignable buttons on the...

OK, where and by whom? Surely that's a more productive thing to discuss. And anyway if you've watched all Mr. Johnson's videos, either they have value or you have a penchant for horror movies (a genre I cannot abide, incidentally).

Having watched a lot of his videos (probably all of them going back many years), I am amazed you can write that. Presently I have a set of Sheraton/Hepplewhite* dining chairs, which I've been given. They were "restored" by someone who does a lot of museum work in the UK, and frankly I think...

Bury them in a flowerbed for a short while. Obviously you only want to age the heads, so you might dip the threads in warm wax first. But as soon as you apply a screwdriver you will tend to chew up the slots, leaving give-away bright marks. Electrical tape over the blade might help - make sure...

Tom Johnson Antique Restoration, Gorham, Maine. https://www.thomasjohnsonrestoration.com/ He has a YouTube channel too. If they are really Chippendale then worth sending cross country to be mended...

Is Yandles too far away at Martock, Somerset? They keep a stock of exotics, and have a proper mill to resaw felled timber, etc.

Thanks Sammy. PM sent :-)

I'm very interested, as long as Sammy isn't. Will PM you... E.

My 2012 Samsung Android tablet is still functionally better than my wife's 2019 iPad (and my mum's 2017 iPad pro). It also has a good GPS receiver built in, the absence of which in the ornery iPad is on its own an indication of how Apple regards its users - as cash machines. I don't want to...

I recently helped a friend fit one, 4ftx2ft, in the kitchen of a house in California. It was designed for surface mounting on a ceiling, and had a neat bezel. The back of the panel was a zinc-plated steel sheet, which served both as strengthening and heatsink. I found only two issues: 1) the...

Search for Louis Rossmann on YouTube, for a view of Apple, from someone who really knows the hardware inside-out. I don't have a view as such, except that historically Apple kit has had poor wireless performance. Most (all?) of my children have iPhones, and those refuse to work in parts of the...

Ditto here. I've only tried a rip blade once. Mine is a Makita, and I know one difference with the TS55 is the riving knife (the Makita doesn't have one), but I got serious kickback when the stock moved and pinched the blade at the back. And as with Steve's experience, I wrecked the splinter...

Ents are tippy, it's true, but no worse than other boats of that size. The more tricky thing, in my limted experience is the tendency to luff up in a gust. The helmsman ends up using their mainsheet forearm as a sort of on-off piston. In a gust you let the sheet out sharpish, and haul it back in...

That all sounds right - I've always thought of Wayfarers as roughly 16ft. The Ent (that you are considering) has a thickened transom which probably explains the extra inch and, as someone else said, I think, GP 14 stands for "General Purpose 14ft". Both the Ent and the GP14 are Jack Holt...