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If you are going onto masonry the supports can be as simple as threaded rod fixed into holes in the wall with resin (like a resin anchor). The trick is to angle them up by a degree or two off the horizontal

So would you like to add to the list those firms operating here who keep the majority of their hourly paid staff on temporary zero hours agency contracts? All so they can reduced their employers NI payments and get away with allowing no workers rights. It's rife in sectors from food production...

It is indeed a new model AGS. For sheet materials it would have been better with the right hand extension table (instead of the bars) and the AGSP (which had a pre-scorer) would have been better yet. Two downsides - they are a bit light (not lightweight), so if you are going to shove sheet...

Ermmm. Stanley actually bought J A Chapman (in 1937) who made Acorn and whio were well known brace makers - they in turn appear to have taken over the name from GTL (or was it that GTL bought them in and sold them, anyone know?). I can assure that the quality started off over the cliff - at...

Yes, but I've yet to come across a jointer plane which won't work because the the installed version of WoodShavingApp (version 1.0) is too old to be compatible with Timber v7.0

As nobody has mentioned it, the cutter used for that sort of purpose is called a combination panel cutter and is commonly used in the caravan industry, coach bodybuilding, SIPS panel manufacture/installation, etc. They are designed to plunge something like a plywood or composite board and use...

I've no doubt that Fred is sitting up there on his cloud right now laughing his socks off at how daft folk are. £100 for two knackered chisels!

Yep. Kept yer legs warm in winter, too! Don't think there was ever a Japanese equivalent at the time - or for many years after the demise of the hall Green wizards

Wilson Brothers shuffled off this mortal coil in the early 1990s having downsized and gone through a slow and painful death over many years. Unlike White's of Paisley or Cooksley (or even Wadkin in their final death throes) they never seem to have tried turning into a machinery dealer towards...

Why would an American be in a position to be holier than thpu on the topic. Stanley wasn't the only firm making "Bailey" type planes - there were others such as Union, Sargent, Ohio and Millers Falls to name a few and they were in the business of patent circumvention from the 1800s until the...

That's not to say I wouldn't like them. I do own ONE L-N plane (#62) and ONE Veritas block plane (I know quite a few trade guys who've bought one or two fancy bits of plane bling as well). They are good, but not really that much better than, say, a Quangsheng or Wood River with a bit of...

Yes, but that's in the USA. I know that the same model was withdrawn in the UK 10 or so years ago - I have a colleague who has a semi-dead one and who can't/won't replace it. Hitachi have also withdrawn their 12in compound mitre saws (non-slider) from the UK market as have Bosch and I've never...

Somebody is already making them - every bricky and plasterer I know of already has one. At least based on the right angle corners they do :roll: Speak for yourself - I'm one of the hairy-tongued sons of toil (it's a Sunday aftrernoon, think about it). To me it's all a bit of a non-argument...

There's a saying that plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, however..... If you can't patent a design, and very few new ideas things in woodworking tools are innovative enough to be patentable these days, the only methods of protection you have are copyright and trade mark registration...

I completely agree - and that's why I posted the links to Bill's site. He says exactly the same thing, but instead of wetting his finger and sticking it in the air to estimate the airflow/pipe diameter required, he actually shows you how to calculate the correct diameter of pipe. If you want to...

If you read any texts from the 1950s you'll find that we used to call a thicknesser a "panel planer" and the term "jointer" was in common use, alongside "overhand planer". It's our language which has changed

I don't really know any suppliers down in South wales where you are, so I can't help you there, but in terms of laying out dust extraction, and the topic as a whole, have you read Bill Pentz's site? Probably the most comprehensive site on the subject anywhere on the net, knowledgeable and...

Take a look at combination woodworkers like the Robland range. Should give you some ideas For the fence it might be an idea to consider aluminium builder profile such as this one and its' matching connector strip. There's even a guy selling lightweight L-section rip fence profile (and a second...

That makes two of us. I treated both my Record No. 04-SS and Stanley No. 5 planes to new Ray Iles 2.5mm O1 irons (i.e. the thin ones) as a test. These irons are a direct replacement with no modding required. There was a noticeable improvement, even though both the planes were early post WWII...

I'd consider splittng the Gabro thicknessing attachment and offering that separately. TBH they were not the easiest things to use and could be downright dangerous if you hadn't adjusted the springs just right, but Multico sold a lot of them with their planers (Gabro were in Redhill in the 1950s...