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I was really fortunate to spend a couple of hours at Chalco last year, having a go at hand engraving. They are great guys and their stamps are beautiful. Thoroughly recommend them. Nick

What's your budget? Nick

I've not heard this before. I consider it the best router I've ever used, but only have it in a table, so perhaps I don't notice the stickiness. Nick

I have found the 1993 article we published in Good Woodworking. It cited research by Dr Dean Cliver of the University of Wisconsin who discovered that while bacteria on wooden chopping boards died, bacteria on plastic boards did not. The team used end-grain and long grain maple, walnut, ash...

Libel is obviously a big issue, but there's also common decency. It may well be the case that someone has suffered poor customer service, and that's not good, but there may be extenuating circumstances, and habitual offending needs to be tickled out gently. The tendency to name and shame without...

I couldn't agree more, Noel. No one has to open a thread, but like many others, I've learnt stuff here about consumer rights, and from time to time it's surely important we discuss the potential power a forum and its members have over a business or individuals? Nick

Having been sued for libel, I know from bitter experience that it is not something you want to happen. Magazines are often accused of pandering to advertisers, and that might be the case, but their real concern when it comes to criticising customer service (which is so difficult to prove one way...

I've heard from Dan Ridley-Ellis at Napier University in Edinburgh, who says that older wood will absorb less water because hemicellulose is broken down by free radicals removing the parts to which water molecules bind. He says that the equilibrium moisture content for old wood will be lower...

Somewhat bizarrely I was discussing quite a similar idea with an inventor friend recently. There is a shortage of holding devices for obscure shapes for carving etc...

I'm loving the Spider Vice. Serious overkill.

Great idea. You could buy it with a cluster of spacers to suit different fretting. Will obviously have to have a built-in depth stop.

Good work. Much more determined than I would have been. And much more satisfying than a spot of complaining.

Good idea. I'm very happy to provide contact at Bosch. Nick

We had the Pocket Dovetailer here for a bit, and as a joke I even took it down to my local pub to cut a dovetail on the move (BW28). I can send you a pdf of the article. It was very beautiful, but not very robust.

Lee Valley will be announcing their annual April Fools' Day tool tomorrow. Visit their website and search for AFD. We've heard from the horse's mouth that this year's innovation is heavy, at 220lb. A pocket anvil perhaps. Nick

i have the email address of the Bosch account manager for their professional tools. Just pm me if you need it. Nick

Thanks. They're in a box somewhere. It's a really interesting angle, and we should fight harder to promote wood.

I think we ran a story about plastic v wooden chopping boards in the first issue of Good Woodworking. Oh so long ago. I'll see if I can find it.

Good question. Don't know the science, but I know a man who does. I'll email him. Nick

Old wood is often better than new. Certainly likely to be more stable. Watch out for nails etc, as suggested above, and buy a belt sander or cheap power planer (hand held) to remove paint/varnish. Look out for wood recycling centres in some towns/cities. They remove nails etc, and your money...