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Yup - It's an Enterprise. 13' 3", IIRC bow to transom (possibly 13' 6"). I'd like to say 'it was the thickened transom that confused me' but actually it's more like old age*, and it's that odd hybrid with a buoyancy tank forrard and bags under the side seats. Stupidly, I was trying to work...

From bitter experience with an early plywood Enterprise*, the really awkward bit is inside the bottom of the centreboard trunk. It's hard to keep painted, because the board rubs it, and the joint between the keel and the trunking is where rot often starts. I think it rather compromises the...

Bod is correct... but they don't work very well in my experience. Whilst they do adjust the height of the support bars for the track for the sliding carriage, they still need locknuts really, so there is no advantage in having thumbwheels - you might just as well have two ornery nuts and a...

I sharpen our kitchen knives under a slightly running tap, using cheap diamond plates ("medium" and "fine" - whatever that means). I find it works faster and I get a better edge that way. The plastic backing bits fell off years ago, but the cutting surfaces still work OK. I have mostly stopped...

https://www.toolstation.com/painting-de ... -paper/c95 <sigh> [To be fair, LMGTFY is evidently not working as it used to, but even so...]

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww ... aper%2Fc95 Hope this helps...

FYI this was posted on Fran Blanche's channel recently. It's not as analytical as a lot of her stuff, and being a non-woodworker, some of the questions (e. g. about site saws) are a bit gauche, but interesting nonetheless. And some of the YouTube comments are interesting...

Align so the blade is parallel to the mitre tracks (not square to the mitre fence - that is adjustable in use!). There are a number of different ways this is set in the factory. If there are a pair of bolts at either end of the saw throat (the cutout for the blade) these might hold the pivots...

Stay away from eBay for this - their costs are excessive. Try if at all possible to sell it locally: You apparently live in Devon, a county full of retiree woodworkers. And it does look like a nice bench. I would try Gumtree or local small ads, at a sensible price (in the 300-350 area, as...

How often do you play each LP? You might use something like green baize or thick felt for the "floor": you need something slippery enough so that the sleeves don't scuff as you put them in or remove them. Well used records stored vertically often have a slit in the cardboard sleeve at the...

Do you know which version? I think many brands of biscuit jointers (possibly including Makita's one) went through a cost reduction redesign recently, when the patents expired and it became a free-for-all. The average price has certainly fallen rather a lot. I have the earlier Makita 3901 model...

Also don't forget if doing a rectangle (or anything where you roundover all the way round a surface), you still need to be aware of the grain direction: Do the cross-grain cut(s) first, and the long grain ones (obviously with the grain) afterwards, so your second passes take away any spelching...

Hi John, hope things are progressing. PM didn't make it, apparently, but there's no rush - opportunism on my part, entirely. As-when, obviously. All the best, E.

Two weeks or so before we got married, I worked on the final mix of "Threads"* for two days (2x 12 hour shifts). I had nightmares about it on our honeymoon and occasionally for some months afterwards, the images were so strong. In one break, I asked the producer who he thought might actually...

Which bits do you have left over, John? I have just refurbished my wife's Kenwood, which is a mere 35 years old or thereabouts (it was a wedding present). It now has a new motor (although I could have used the original one), and a re-packed gearbox, and a few other bits. Arguably better than...

Steve's memory is almost as bad as mine! I now own a rather "bespoke" 1st generation TS200*. I used to own a Kity 419, the very machine that Rafezetter now has. The latter was the one Steve filmed. Both of them have sliding tables, the only significant difference being that the TS200 uses a...

I run mine with the lowest tension I can get away with for any particular job. Why the lowest tension? The quill bearings on mine are cheap and nasty, as it's basically a cheap and nasty Chinese product (I keep meaning to replace... etc.). The less sideways stress on the quill bearings, the...

I too am trying to eliminate Teflon (its fumes are almost instantly fatal, to parrots, incidentally). I got a Green Pan from John Lewis and it hasn't been a success. It stopped being non-stick and became difficult to clean, then some small dings started growing and now the inside is quite...

Broadly speaking, yes that's correct. Some bits have the information engraved on the shank (giving a range or a maximum), sometimes it's in the data sheet, sometimes, on the cheap ones, there's nothing. As a rule run slower rather than faster, as there's less chance of burning the workpiece...

That's just what the owner of the vac shop at the end of our road says too. He sells Numatics (Henrys), but only spares for Dysons. My mother-in-law was on the point of throwing away her "broken" Dyson upright. I said I'd take a quick look at it. She has long hair. I had a rather unpleasant...