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In my experience, a radial arm saw is capable of being much more accurate for this kind of thing... But, they're a right royal pain to get set up to a high level of accuracy initially, if the bearings on the carriage or the ways in the arm are worn they won't ever be accurate until that is...

Indeed, the thing there is the trust in both measurements and tool accuracy is very high... I don't doubt it works, but there is definitely room in there to **** up catastrophically at least once in a while, and doorframes where the frame bellies in in the middle would still be an issue.

I used to have a workshop in a garage of that size, with a Planer Thicknesser, Radial Arm Saw, two large sawhorses and a Workbench. I also had three whitewater canoes and my tumble drier and freezer in there. The RAS was personally the tool I found most useful as it's able to be used as a...

1", ⅜" & ½" inch paring chisels, each with 14" long blades... £5 all in. The lands are so fine they're almost sharp at the tips, really nice chisels from 'Clegg Uxbridge'

I have a footprint 4 and 5, they're pretty well made and work well. A lot of footprint tools were made for the MOD and GPO on contracts going into the 70's as a result the quality decline doesn't seem to have happened in quite the same way as the Stanley/Record one mentioned above, (indeed from...

So I've had a chance to do more turning today whilst waiting for a glue-up. I've got the hang of roughing out with a skew and turning beads, but right until the end of the session getting clean smooth planing cuts was eluding me... But I realised that when turning the left to right cuts on my...

So the saw blades arrived whilst I was away, had a go tonight and it appears to be relatively straightforward, apart from the fact that my laminated blank sheered in two near the foot whilst I was using the spokeshave, which brought everything to a close whilst I wait for the glue to properly...

Is space and/or moving it frequently going to be a major issue for you? If not, the benefits of secondhand kit are hard to overlook.

Why all the hate for British pallets? The yard at work collects them at a phenomenal rate, and when we started looking seriously at them to recover the value realised that something like 65% are good hardwood ones, the blue painted food industry ones are particularly good, but technically are...

I'm just going to chime in and say that I'm tall (6'3") and much prefer a low bench... I've used quite a few benches, but the one I ended up owning is a school-type bench which comes to my mid thigh, allowing me to really get over the top of work, and when desired use all 18 stone of blubber as...

Just had a chance to look in my little box of tricks, impressed by the standard of manufacturing (superb), everything fits just so, what actually impressed me most however was the packaging, it's well designed and made to a standard way beyond that required to get it safely to me, indeed the...

My order arrived today, not had a chance to take a look yet.

The choice to use a real skull I find more than a little distasteful, but the piece is deliciously ironic as it Directly Personifies (literally) the very thing it seems to me Hirst was trying to point out as being undesirable, indeed before making that piece he may have spent a little too long...

That is quite interesting... I'd never really thought about the shape and pattern of sparks before... I think I need to do some reading.

Underlining is mine... The point being, that to be an artist one must create art... and it's a widely held public perception that the modern art fraternity during the YBA era really lost touch with what is held to be art, not only by the 'man on the street' but by the wider art world outside...

David, what improvement do you see from lapping and polishing the back of the Iron, I've never really felt the need to intentionally do so and don't see any I'll effects... I'm curious in part as I'm just about to commission a surface grinder, which gives me an opportunity to attain very high...

I think after artists and art critics colluded in awarding the turner prize to a succession of weird, not particularly inspired or (crucially) emotive pieces they lost the right to define what art is to the general public...

I'm inclined to agree with the view that practice, self limitation and defined goals allow a complete beginner to make rather attractive furniture in a reasonable time scale, I would only say that if anything custard's 1000 hours accounts little for variations in aptitude and learning styles...

Hi 8squared, I was too busy explaining how (and apologising because) the machining had gone awry (and how silly I was making the sole blank first) in the letter that I sent with it to explain why I'd made that particular sole as the one which came with the plane... The supplied Sole & Iron is...

The Hard-Point saw was invented by a Dane in the 1920's*, which kinda illustrates your point. I'm not sure if it really is an out and out improvement either... For site work, environments where as saw is subjected to constant rough handling & for the cutting of highly abrasive materials (e.g...