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To cut a mortise fast start cutting it shortly before 5 on Friday afternoon. For some reason this always makes me pick up the pace on whatever I’m doing.

Is it possible to make things easier for yourself by removing as much stock as you can first with a table saw/track saw/circular saw and then use your router just to clean up the last few mm of the profile?

All of the warnings and advice above are important. Furthermore, you seem very confident as to the position of your hands but it doesn’t matter where your hands are if you get a kickback. I don’t know how experienced you are on a table saw but you need to take your new saw really seriously...

Sorry I can’t help you but your polishing job looks great.

Oak is its own boss. Wait til it reaches equilibrium with the room and plane it flat. I know that is not what you wanted to hear. If the mantelpiece is over a fire, heater or woodburner expect more movement until it is bone dry. Finally I think everyone above is presuming you have got a length...

Seems like you won’t need the spaceballs now for this job as better ideas have been suggested. However, if you do ever need them you don’t have to send off to the US as you can make your own using pre-dried dabs of low modulus silicon.

I probably end up doing this a couple of times a year in large kitchens. You don’t need the bolts underneath. Just gorilla glue, dominos and sash cramps. Locate the join on a full stave width; if the worktop is pre-finished you must lightly route the joining edges for the glue to get into the...

Haha, so true. I have often thought that if I charged people the true cost of any kind of curved work that I would get reported to someone somewhere. I pretty much only do curved for existing customers who already know that my prices are reasonable and that the huge jump in cost is justified.

I often work on historic properties and have had a lot of success with Solignums Architectural range. In fact, I had to replace a peice of cladding on a thatched cottage recently which had shrunk and warped badly. The house looked great coming up the drive and I was surprised to find it was...

I made a cut on the wrong side of the line the other day and I started my apprenticeship in 1987. It was actually Melvyn Braggs fault as he was being a bit exasperating on the radio at the time.

Thanks. I want to put it right in a corner of the joinery where the roof slope hits the wall. I think it will work if I remove the wheels.

This is actually the third to last job I made which I put in in January. However, by the time I finish something I am always in such a rush to get onto the next job I never remember to take pictures. However, the customer just emailed me the picture as they are very pleased with the painting...

I have had to put a hold on my scheduled work for a week or so to fix storm damage from Friday. So my advice is if you are going to put an iron roof and guttering on - even with the smallest of overhangs - tie those trusses and purlings with steel fixings to the walls; ditto with the sole...

Haha. The censorship software invented a new term. what I typed was short@ss but shortbuttocks sounds funnier.

I have army surplus kneepads which I love. Unfortunatley when I don’t need them they are always in evidence but when I do they go AWOL in the van. So I also have some gel ones from screwfix. Both are brilliant and stay on when I walk around. Would love to just slip some of those foam surfboard...

Hi, I am in exactly the same boat as you. Did you find out the answer to this question.

I know it can be intimidating and you do run across the occasional 'I know-it-all don't waste my time types' but if you front up to the timber merchants and tell them that you have a bit of money to spend and are looking for somewhere to begin making regular purchases from for your new hobby you...

Love pocket hole screws but hate filling the holes. On paint finish I use two part filler otherwise I plug the holes; however I do as much as I can to hide them in the first place. I did two big free standing wardrobes with pine furniture board carcasses and a pine face frames pocketholed...

Thanks for your help everyone. I decided on lime wood. If I remember to take some photos I'll post them when the job is done DBC

Hi, If you are still considering the Sip then I can give you my experience of it. I use a Sip 01332 every day that I am working in the joinery; about two weeks a month as I do general carpentry as well. I think it is a great saw for the price. If is relatively lightweight but sturdy.. I...