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If you want to get going quickly, I recommend buying pine board, which is made up of thin strips, for the top. You can get 30mm thick boards, 600mm wide, so if you make your own underframe, you can have an instant flat top to get woodworking for about £45. I've never been fond of an apron as it...

Although Robin Gates's bench hook wasn't particularly special, I've always thought it is a device that deserves more thought and development, especially if it is to be used as a mitre-cutting guide, and potentially has an integral measure and stops so that it might become the hand version of a...

Fair comment. But at least Robin Gates's articles are generally good to read.

Thanks, Jim We'll do our best. Nick

I didn't think you did, so don't worry. But with so much technical information available on the Net etc... it strikes me that we should be providing more articles that are thought-provoking, good to read, entertaining and inspirational, rather than once again providing tips on cutting a tenon...

Actually, I'd have to say that we quite rarely regurgitate. Though I've never been able to chronicle the content of BW as well as I'd have liked, nor put as much basic information on the website (except the Glossary produced by Fred Page), we do have an index, and back issues are available...

So do I!!! It terrifies me, but perhaps I ought to explain the thinking of going monthly. I know that there will be folk who use the change as a pretext (rightly or otherwise, constructively or otherwise) to comment about standards and repetition, and their comments may well turn out to be fair...

Fantastic idea. We showed something very similar in a recent Living Woods. Thomas Flinn sell an excellent two-man saw for only about £50. It is really good. We'll feature you in the mag. Sounds amazing. Nick

As someone else has said, there are no stupid questions. I've written some unbelievably stupid things in my time, and asked some incredible questions, and I'm sure I will do so again. There's nothing better, IMHO, than being out there in the shed making something. It really doesn't matter what...

I suspect taking a chainsaw to it and reducing it bit by bit might actually be quite a good strategy. It's fairly likely to be full of stones. But every bit of English walnut should be saved and used in my opinion. It is a king of timbers.

Good point about woodgear's bandmill. We should make one over here. Rot is very normal in walnut. And all sort of other nasties your sawmill won't like, and your chainsaw will hate!!! I'll ask Charles Thomson, who milled the walnut root, how he got so much out of it. He has 18x18in squares of...

Alaskan mills are amazing to get you going, but limited for repeat work as there is so much wastage. One day someone will develop a tiny horizontal bandsaw mill that can be used once the bulk of the processing has been done with a chainsaw. Looks like you've got a burr or walnut root. This is...

I don't totally agree on this. Chainsaw mills are wasteful, however your options are limited. For a relatively big butt like this a chainsaw will be ideal to 'box the heart'. I did exactly this for a friend with my large Husqvarna and a Granberg Alaskan mill. This kept the heartwood as long as...

What I meant was, what would anyone like me to find out if I go to the Lamello factory in Austria!! Is it worth it for the sake of woodworkers? I have very limited time and want to make sure I come back with useful info if I go.

Bit of skiing???????!!! Not on my old knees. But I'm sure it would be interesting. What does anyone want to know about Lamello?

Certainly will (thanks for the invite for a plug). Have plans to make a project or two, and look at some of the things being made with the different types of fixing. They've even asked me to visit the factory in Austria! Not sure I'll have time, and not sure what benefit there is for readers.

Bob from Lamello came round yesterday. He showed me all sorts of clever fixings. Really impressive. The clip-together Fast biscuits aren't really strong enough for what I want to do. He was telling me about some of the companies using the Tenso and Clamex joints. They are changing how furniture...

Could you email me at [email protected]? I tend not to use PMs I'm afraid. Thanks.

Have you used the Fast biscuits? You punch them into place Bob Adsett of Axminster tells me, and is sending me some to try.

I'm not sure what the Knapp Fast connector does that a Tenso doesn't (or vice versa), but I've asked a man who knows. The Lamello site is amazing: wish I'd had the sense to go there before trying to work out the Zeta without reading the instructions!!!!!