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Clearly a novice who has been watching youtube.Americans have jointers-we have planers.What you need is a Stanley No5 and a few hours of practice.At which point you will have some wood suitable for finishing.You might sand it or scrape it and an Englishman would use a cabinet scraper to remove...

I would be astonished if you actually find such a beast.An 11/32 jobber pattern might be a lot easier to come by but will have the tendency to tear a couple of fragments out of the wood as it enters.The possibility of modifying the cutting edge to vertical might just allow it to work and I would...

I've had one of those since,I think, 1979 and its a good stone.I don't remember anybody getting worked up about precise grit numbers at the time and it just worked.I did actually flatten it for the second time last summer.Took me about 25 minutes to do both sides and now its back to being...

You are not the first.The greater danger comes from the unwary visitor who sees this sort of thing and then tries to do it.Sadly,youtube is absolutely stuffed with Americans demonstrating their constitutional right to be unwise about guards and so many novices just copy them.I think most of the...

What is this Windows of which you speak?

Obvious spelling mistake there.

If that seems a bit steep or your tool budget needs a boost,they also have a Portugese red for £4.99 that is excellent.The price difference covers most of the cost of a set of their pretty handy chisels.

From what I've seen on youtube and American woodworking sites I'd say several million American woodworkers need them.Some might actually be aware of it too.

My experience suggests that if you can still get it out of the container it will work.If there isn't a great deal of it left,it will solidify in the container due to the air (and moisture in it) initiating the change from liquid to solid.I have,when desperate used a long series drill bit to...

I have experienced similar difficulties with dowels and solved it by tapping them through a dowel plate.If you don't have one,its easy to make one.Just find a piece of steel -preferably at least 4mm thick and drill a hole of the size you want the dowel to be and tap the dowel through it.A sliver...

While we have toxicity as a subject, are you really comfortable with using epoxy as a finish? It isn't hugely toxic but anything less than great care when handling it can lead to sensitisation affecting the user.It never goes away and can manifest itself in a number of ways.Once completely cured...

Some sound advice already given and I would add one further recommendation;if you see an Irwin expanding bit with both adjusting wings present do not let it escape. Infinite adjustability from 7/8 inch to 3 inch so you can even produce metric holes with it. As you might be aware if you ever...

Not sure how the general public would get access to a machine unless you have a local makerspace or maybe men's shed with a bit of the technology.The software can take many forms and one of the best is free if you are interested in downloading it and having a bit of a play...

Half hour V carving project on a CNC router.

Try drawing the cutter out of the collet by a couple of mm before tightening it.It often happens that a shank bottoms out and the collet has nowhere to go as the shank won't let it move and isn't totally gripped.

People keep coming up with all sorts of machines that aren't quite what we had before and aren't quite CNC-such as the Maslow and this machine.They seem to have a few of the advantages of CNC routers and "traditional" machines and a selection of their disadvantages too.If an inventor has made...

A few years ago I was advised by an IT professional that disabling javascript can reduce the amount of snooping and make it much more difficult for malware and viruses to infiltrate a computer.Consequently I run Firefox with the excellent NoScript add on -and one or two others.If you run...

There was a time when TOR was completely secure.I suspect that any users of it these days will have an organisation or two,normally referred to just by their initials,looking over their shoulder.Probably searching for transactions in cryptocurrency or checking what access to things they...

It is bad and it is almost impossible to opt out of.It used to be just about possible and I did it.Then came the latest "improvements" and it has become totally impossible to opt out as even trying will lead you to a page where nothing can be opted out of because an error message appears telling...

If you use a melamine faced baseboard,you can get away with a strip of masking tape to hold the bag down.You do have to be very careful to avoid creases and if they are inevitable you have to apply the tape to their edges.There might be a slight leakage and a small loss of vacuum.If you want a...