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Thanks for everyone who has responded to this post. It seems like the stickers aren’t getting the thumbs up which is fair enough. They are good quality and not easy to peel off so I think they will stay on for a while (or they can be peeled off and a wipe with a bit of white spirit will clear...

A chap called Nathan (I believe from Murdoch joinery) rang me and gave me some feedback on the scribers. Generally he seemed to really like the tool but suggested adding a logo which I hadn’t thought of. I looked into having a stamp made of the stylised plane on my logo but have opted for...

As already said this is more than likely a wrong parameter setting. I put one of these on my lathe and needed some advice setting it up. I rang the company I bought it off and a chap walked me through setting all the parameters and couldn’t have been more helpful. If you are stuck give a...

This is my pride and joy. It’s a CVA tool room lathe built in 1953. I’ve read that you could buy a small house for the amount these lathes sold for from new (which is probably why they went bust!). It’s all cast iron of course. I restored it a couple of years ago and I’ve fitted a VFD so I’ve...

Fair enough Julian. Definitely worth investing in a bandsaw if you carry on with the woodwork imo. If you are worried about wood movement after planing/thicknessing part plane them say 4mm over thickness and plane and thickness again in a day or two, that usually works for me. You can mitigate...

How times have changed. I have a cnc machine but I don’t have a bandsaw!

Interesting work Louis. I occasionally get asked to make a curved cornice for a friend with a kitchen making company. I use the brick technique building up 4 layers out of 1 ¼” poplar offcuts. I make up a jig which acts as a big compass on the o/h router (I am also twitchy about doing this on...

Thanks for the review Bob, I really appreciate your thoughts. I'm offering a free regrind if anyone is interested in seeing the results I get. Just post an old cutter out to me and I'll grind and return it FOC. PM if interested. Thanks Philip. www.bespokehandmadeboxes.co.uk www.tooleypark.com...

I’ve been setting up a Clarkson tool cutter grinder for router cutter grinding in my on going efforts to diversify my income stream. I’m finally satisfied with the results but would like some feedback from others who use router cutters. If you are interested send me a cutter (no smaller than...

With my ongoing efforts to diversify my income stream I bought a Clarkson tool cutter grinder some months ago with the hope of being able to offer a router cutter regrinding service. I took the grinder to bits and rebuilt it with a fresh paint job. The only thing I had to make was a new...

I did a short course with David Charlesworth probably 20 years ago now which was very good. Might be worth looking at.

I have to take the riving knife off for a plunge cut like he is doing which is possibly why he's not using a riving knife. He is taking a deep cut which doesn't help. Most of the vids I've seen coming from the US show saw operators using no riving knife or guard (for a normal cut where there's...

Thanks for all the comments. It’s usual to go from a drawing to laying out parts of a project full size on a sheet of mdf, that’s when having a large compass is very useful. I think it will be more useful for commercial workshops that are doing larger projects. The photo shows me striking an...

Some years ago I bodged together a large compass for setting out which has been extremely useful. I’ve developed the concept into a kit where you machine the timber (roughly 31 x 20) to the size of compass you want and add my bits to the ends. I’m sure someone else has already done this but...

Nice boxes Nick. My advice for what it’s worth. I use splines to joint the trays for my boxes and I’ve had the same problem with the splines not completely seating on the bottom of the groove. There is a goldilocks fit, if the splines are too thick trying to get them fully down is problematic...

I did some subbing work for a friend who has a kitchen company. I started making doors and frames with my morticer and tenoner and haunching (like you supposed to!) but he was unhappy about the time this was taking and encouraged me to get a domino which I did. The time saving was massive...

Another option would be to replace the 3 phase with a single phase motor. It might entail a bit of metal work but it's a way around being able to use more industrial grade machinery in the home shop. I did up a startrite pillar drill and swapped it over to a single phase motor just because I...

For those who aren’t fed up this I’ve gone back to the drawing board and revised the scriber. There are now two. To accommodate a metal scribe I’ve made a larger version so that I can fit in a barrel nut. The cross section shows 2 positions for the scribe or pencil which can now fit on top or...

Fair enough Owen. This is an interesting marketing exercise for me. I obviously gave both the wing nut and the woodscrew some thought. Coming from a purely practical view point I opted for a wing nut because you can apply more torque with your fingers. Having used this tool for many years I...

I suppose it gives you a definite line to plane to and a uniform gap and in theory less time checking the fit. I do it by eye but will try the scriber out next time out of interest. I can see it being more useful for heavy full size doors when you don’t want to keep heaving the door into place...