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I had a 419 for a long time. Marcros is correct - the original blade had quite a thick kerf, and the riving knife matched it. I bought a Freud blade, having used them on other machines (they are very good!). It was too thin and I jammed the rigving knife in the cut in the first use! Good...

I went down the pics, saw the moulding and thought, "He's using up scraps." Then I saw the finished item - really nice! I, too bought a Domino recently, so I'll have to get thinking about a memorable first project for it :-)

Ah nice, thought I, then I realised that they're not really one handed. Compare them with the ones from Rutlands or Axminster (difference between the two is only colour) - those are genuinely one handed in that you can clamp OR RELEASE with one hand - critical if you want the shaft to slide...

You might also do kerf bending with good results. This video gives an extreme example of what's possible (watch from 2'56" in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNKrRYzN3zU. It's a very common and long-established technique (probably hundreds of years). If you have a track saw it would be...

+1 for above. Ask your local board stockist about "bendy ply" - it's amazing stuff. You can, of course make up your own ply, laminating thin pieces yourself to the correct shape. Google Jason Heap's work for excellent examples (naturally he doesn't give away his commercial secrets - I don't...

(Click the image to see the album on Flickr; scroll down on this page for details and price) This is the older version of Axminster's 2-axis, hobby morticer. NOW PRICE REDUCED: I want £200. I can't go any lower than this - it's worth more to me to keep (apart from spouse pressure to...

Martin Cox is spot-on. I've been VAT registered (twice, at different times), been a sole trader and a limited company, and now I'm back to being employed, albeit part time. The simplest rule is to think of the customer: if they don't mind you charging them VAT, that's fine. If they do mind...

As an adjunct to the oil drum thing, If you find someone chucking out one of the roughly spherical Weber-type barbecues, the round gridirons in them (there are two of different size) seem to be practically indestructible. Would be a useful as a base to build the fire on, so air can get under...

We had a slightly bemused Blue-*** (parent) in the dining room earlier this afternoon. The box is quite close to the house, and I'd left a window ajar. My better half assisted it by opening another window, but it left the way it came in, flying fairly straight, but probably with a slightly...

I have an old Pantone swatch book (er, somewhere in my study!). If you want to try to match it by eye, I'm happy to post it to you if you don't mind posting it back again. Course I don't know if the swatches themselves have aged, but I doubt it'll be very much - it's about 20 years old, at a...

We've been caught by week-end functions - wedding discos are very popular at this time of year, and most people operating them are deaf (genuinely). So now I always ask.

Our lot's chicks have hatched, too. They're to and fro from around 5AM onwards.

Do I understand that correctly: both infeed and outfeed tables are height adjustable by handwheels? Or do the wheels do something else? If they are adjustable I'd be terrified that I might accidentally knock the outfeed one and butter up the entire alignment. Or are they always like that? On...

(Overheard in the Bridge City design office) Why do people buy Ferraris, when the average speed of London traffic is now slower than the late Victorian era? But if I had one to sell, and you wanted to buy it... Just enjoy the irony. E. PS: Anybody else think Bridge is a daft name for a...

N, is right Seb, they do need eyes. Can you do one that looks like a Christmas cracker? Me, I'm in full grandparent mode now, and I'll have to get a move on as it's only eight or nine years before he will, I hope, want to make stuff in grandpa's workshop when he visits. Anything like that...

As you know, Steve, I've just joined the ranks of the Green and Black army with a big-size Domino. Nice bit of kit; now only need to learn how to use it properly! Re-read this with great interest, and have started looking for my box of screw cups already - it's simple but highly effective, as...

That looks like a vinyl vrap, rather than a laminate or veneer - would that be right BM? --- There are other versions of those graining tools, which are all basically rollers that you slide along and only rotate _very_ slowly. I have had good results with these in the past: (they are about 4"...

Same here. Our mailing list gets smaller but better.

Ah, one of the evocative smells of my childhood. My grandfather had a wartime contract to supply pit props and telegraph poles. In the late 1960s, one of the sheds at the mill had a long tank half full of creosote, which was still used to do the ocdasional long pole and fencing standards. The...

Nobody minds honest questions, surely? I've learned so much from here over the few years I've been a member - and made some good friends too (there is life beyond cyberspace!). People can be extremely kind. I think the trick is not to ask about stuff that's been covered a lot (and never...