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Sorry. Ignore the above I see this has already been suggested.

Have a look at how worn the armature is.

My knees, back and fingers have been flashing me this message for years now.

I live in a small village and getting a set of euroblock cutters made for the 2 most common profiles around these parts - an ovolo and a lambs tongue - paid for itself very quickly and got the money coming in when I first moved to the area. This was about 10 years ago and at that time there was...

I do exactly this. I use mine most days. Probably take the blade out most days to put on the stone to touch it up. Sorry to hear you dropped yours. I dropped mine on a concrete floor once but managed to stick my boot out in time to cushion the fall. I was lucky.

The burger van - its really a caravan I suppose - I sometimes go to has been stolen twice in the past 5 years or so. Both times they got it back using this device or something similar. Apparently burger vans get stolen all the time.

Your question makes me feel soooooo dated. I am only early 50s but over the course of my working life we have gone from one of these in every single toolbag and in every single hardware store to people never having seen one before. I am such a dinosaur.

I’d get them back to fit the doors in alignment. After all you have paid for this. If you are someone who is not able or confident doing this sort of thing and you have trouble trying to adjust these doors yourself and contact them again you risk giving them the scope to claim that it is was...

thanks.

Wow. What a story Stig. Bingy man is right about images. They stick with you. When I started my apprenticeship in the 80s I had to watch the infamous ‘safety film’ on my first block course at polytech about 9 months into my time: infamous because the other guys at work had warned me about it. I...

Osmo polyx oil. If anyone knows how to pronounce the middle word properly please let me know

Hi I am an ex NZ housebuilder and cabinet joiner. I think that you will find the US - as far as woodworking goes anyway - to be more similar to your experiences in NZ than in the UK. I did. The building procedure and materials are virtually the same. Much bigger houses that stand alone on 1/4...

Well I started off building timber frame houses in NZ before the age of nail guns. We used to hit in hundreds and hundreds of 4 inch nails every day; back then you could tell who the builders were because they had one big muscular arm and one skinnier arm. For the first sixth months at least I...

I wouldn’t trust a budget blade for any kind of heavy work. I get all my blades off this company. Their gear is top quality and they can answer any questions you have. https://www.cutting-solutions.co.uk/

Unlike Doug above I have had a good experience with a Trend extractor so there might be an element of luck involved in buying these. I bought my little ’Trend Routing Technologies’ extractor - which I attached to a cyclone - about 10 years and it gets very heavy use. It probably ran for about 2...

You are right that I am not thinking about resources in relation to the paint brushes and the drillbits; although I do when it comes to items like timber and larger building/joinery materials. But I don’t know if I agree that I am passing some sort of unreasonable cost on to the customer. It is...

Amazed so many guys are sharpening drill bits. The only drill bits I have sharpened in the last 10 years are the augers from my brace and bit. And I hardly ever use them. I don’t sharpen drill bits and I don’t clean paint brushes. I justify this to myself by telling myself the replacement cost...

I’m in the workshop only intermittently this year as I am doing a big heritage building refurb. But the last week or so the lime plasterer was in my way so I got to be in the joinery making a few incidentals for the same customer. See below. Made a whole lot of mouldings to match his existing...

Great idea. Unfortunately in the 90s a motor rewinder had a fire in his unit in the complex where I am currently. Since then no woodburners is in the tenancy agreement.

Oh well. Unfortunately we live in the age of mass production. On both their website they now list the same PAR sizes as everyone else; ex 100x25, ex 125x25 etc. Just as well there are guys like us around who can mill our own stock. If you haven’t found anything 100x16 yet you could try the...