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You have my sympathy,I did something similar with a piece of cherry I was given.The plan was to cut a bowl blank for turning and after all the work I found too much rot in the heart of the timber.It made reasonable firewood and I got some (a lot actually) exercise.

Just use an old fashioned pair of compasses-adjustable to almost any sensible gap and if you don't allow them to rotate you are applying a more accurate translation of the desired shape.

I have had a Racal Airlite for a long time and it is on its last legs.I wish I could buy another,but they are no longer available.The Airstream,with integral hard hat seemed a bit more cumbersome and having tried the Trend,I am not enamoured of it.I will be buying one of the powered systems...

When the BBC does the job properly they are a superb broadcasting company.Sadly they seem to have got hold of the idea that they have to compete for the highest numbers of viewers or listeners.Some real rubbish is the result and there are now so many channels that there can be virtually no...

I hope you will soon be able to resume your woodworking and that in the meantime your valued items go to a good home.

I think they were actually dovetailed and they are presumably there for location as they prevent movement of the parts relative to one another.If anybody wants to learn more about this type of joinery there is a book "The Art of Japanese Joinery" which has lots more joints that we in the western...

Mint 17 user here,haven't used windows since XP.It got too bloated and needed more resources to perform at the same level with subsequent versions.

I am using Firefox and it works well.Have you accumulated a vast array of cookies?They can slow things down and a surprising number come from almost any site you can think of,my record so far being 26 when using webmail.Some of them have expiry dates decades into the future and a few months of...

Its a few years since I had mine off the bench.I seem to recall that there is a series of slots engaging with the end of the spring and it should be possible to move it to the next position.

There is a reason why riving knives have to be in place when professionals use saws.Even they still suffer minor kickbacks with riving knives and without riving knives the power of a professional saw can kill.Americans,bless them,are immune to the laws of physics and appear to regard the use of...

For most ship to ship it would be VHF.Raymarine are quite popular,but there are other brands.

Done properly,you won't get a dovetail plane apart as the components are made slightly oversize and the projecting ends are peened to tighten them.This is how the sides and sole are locked in place and then the projections are filed down and drawfiled to give the almost invisible joints.Can you...

The coarse diamond plate is a good way to get the material off.I used mine to flatten the sole of my block plane after I had worn it hollow trimming Formica.I also find it beneficial to use paraffin as a lubricant-not just for this job but on oilstones generally and nobody that I have persuaded...

The blade you posted pictures of looks like its tungsten carbide grit and the gullets allow dust to exit the job.If so its a great thing to have as it will cut all sorts of things.I used one for several years and the makers advice was that if it got clogged,just cut a ceramic tile or two to...