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I can see your point, and to some extent it came to mind whilst I was writing, but... If you're not thinking of reducing or removing dust sources because you dismiss it as impractical or costly then you're missing out on lots of opportunities to be creative and get something that serves your...

Having used all options, I'd say powered hoods are the ultimate option for user comfort in extended use and offer a higher level of [theoretical] protection... I really rate the 3M gear including their powered hoods hoods (though they're prohibitively expensive) Powered Hoods by design need...

Due to the vast quantities of Thermosetting resin in it, MDF is not considered recycleable... The nearest you get is shredding it for RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) which would still attract a gate fee. If burned a little at a time in a hot stove with good airflow, it ought to be fine but... With...

This! Also as mine is in a shared workshop, with people of varying skill some users project the Iron excessively which leaves a deep lip and lack of support at the edge using a more finely set plane, again rabbet, or sholuder plane saves the day.

Normally slate stone (with oil) strop on palm of hand to remove wire edge.

1° = 60' One Degree = Sixty Minutes [of arc] 1' = 60" One Minute [of arc] = Sixty Seconds [of arc] Thus whilst the minutes on a clock analogy is useful, it's also confusing as 25/60° is rather different from 150°. I prefer the O'Clock notation, where 12 O'Clock is either directly forwards or...

I'm a fan of Double Boiled (I.e. Stand Oil, not oil with chemical drying agents in it) Linseed, though I suspect it would be form an overly thick and gummy covering on steel parts of tools to use it for Jacob's "coat everything" approach even if thinned. That coat everything approach is a good...

I can see where he's coming from in that waxes, oils, resins and solvents are all organic compounds (some natural some hydrocarbon derived)and thus are mutually soluble... By mixing them in various proportions you can achieve vastly differing results, (see more or less the entire coatings...

Can anyone recommend a source for a double boiler or electrically heated gluepot... I've been making my own varnishes for a while now and kept thinking "one of those would be good" when I recalled them from other people's videos or WIP's whilst precariously balancing a pyrex bowl of molten pitch...

I've always found it easiest to do on a narrow belt linisher (essentially a bench-mounted power-file with a workrest), but then I do it by hand, so jigging it up may be tricky.

Personally I'd only consider a 102 style block plane (or a tiny wooden coffin shape plane)... If I was buying new the LN 102 would probably be my choice. I have a larger block plane somewhere, but rarely if ever find a use for it as the Coffin Smoother I keep on the bench is only a little...

That would be a really sensible option, if the slope from the join with the carcase to the cove wasn't so badly chewed up (I could only find so much width of nice clear wood in the boards), that said if I paint it as suggested above, I can just attack it with filler...

I'll admit to being a bit of a tinkerer. I've found the allure of making my own tools and learning about toolmaking processes morph into a seperate hobby of its own really, which takes time away from woodworking, but always has a defined endpoint. Knowing my propensity for tinkering, I've made...

Charles, painting it is not a bad shout, I've been looking for a reason to formulate some linseed oil paint ever since I learned to make linseed varnish... Well I do have a matched round to the hollow I made the cove with... Is there a record for world's biggest Ogee moulding? :P Annoyingly...

Managed to make some alright looking crown mouldings out of it, to hide the shonkyness of the dovetails... Had to rip a 1.6m length to width, plane the angles onto it , stick the top moulding, then plane out the cove to meet it and finally pick out sections which had turned out alright to use. I...

Mine is now fitting crown mouldings (I enjoy making them though, planing out the coves is particularly satisfying).

I was pleasantly surprised by the Jarrah, its gluing up at the minute, it's like a harder version of Keruing which I rather like, but even straight off the plane it looks lovely which is more than you can say for Keruing no matter what you do to it.

I've been given some boards of whitewood (probably 5ths or worse, a colleague bought more than they needed for some DIY), which is generally a material I avoid like the plague, but as it was there I cracked on making a little wall-mounted cabinet. I rapidly remembered why I dislike it, making...

Which 4-sider are you running? The Wadkin PAR where it goes through and back to do all four sides or a "proper" one? Rodders criticism of Four Siders earlier in the thread was very true based on my experience: most users will set the feed rate and depth of cut on the first block as high as they...

Not to put too fine a point on it, they haven't and they won't be... Now if someone put together a highly detailed website on woodworking, that might well incorporate videos and interactive components, that would be a serious challenge to these kind of semi-comprehnsive books; but video alone? Nah.