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I've always seen "table saw" as a term for a consumer "do it all" machine; Usually a full-blooded "circular sawing machine" can be further categorized as either a Dimension Saw (aka Horizontal Panel Saw; often with a scorer) for panels, Sawbench for ripping, or Circular Re-saw (usually with a...

My every-day planes are on a shelf, on the bottom of my tool-board... The whole thing is an ugly heath-robinson affair*, but none of my normal tools are ever further than arms length. With using predominantly woodies, I've got into the habit of releasing the wedge before putting them back on...

Pics! Shoulder Drill Both sides: As you can see, all in good order, if a bit grimey (and incredibly greasy/oil covered, I've had to use swarfega on my hands after handling it)... It appears that the original finish is almost intact over most of the drill too and no significant rust that I can...

I kind of assumed that one would end up putting a highly durable varnish on it given it's likely to be a high wear application... exposed Oak would probably end up staining as you describe... (should have mentioned that initially :oops: )

OK, so Pine, you have a choice of European Redwood/Scots Pine (the commercial names for imported and homegrown Pinus sylvestris respectively) or the nicer but pricey Southern Yellow Pine (the commercial name for the "Yellow" pine family from the southeastern US)... both are easy enough to work...

At the end of the day, whatever group the government decides to put things like turning, carving, and veneer work (Marquetry, Inlay and Intarsia) are put into commercially, they're going to be drowned out by the voices of much bigger concerns... However, if you treat them as an artform*, then...

Yeah, been done once already. It's also arguable how much of woodworking is a craft... Bench Joinery, Fine Furniture and such is already classified under "Manufacturing and Process Industries" and then Site Joinery and Carpentry are "Construction"; Once you take those away, I'm not sure if...

So I've had to knock time in the workshop (and doing all my other hobbies) on the head to make way for revision for my finals, but to give myself a nice break, I popped over to the Anglesey Festival of Transport and Machinery. Knowing how terribly bad I am at dealing with temptation, I took £15...

I didn't mean that... I meant aesthetically. I've met more than enough people with too much (of mummy and daddy's) money and not enough sense in the last couple of years to last a lifetime.

If they're as good as the Footprint, Tyzack and Marples tools I have, I can't see how Veritas could manage to better them...

What's worse is the refurbished work tables for £1200 each... By re-furbing them, they've made them look like new ones... To get new the legs cost just shy of £25 for each end, angle iron for the lipping would be £40ish and you could pick up some damaged scaffold planks for nowt to make a top...

Moreover... Who the hell wants a scraggy old workbench (sanded or not) in their house?

What kind of plane are you aiming to build?

Actually, I suppose it's just vices... The benches are all different heights, one for planing, one for chopping and sawing, and one for assembly. The assembly bench doesn't need a vice, and the others both have two already (must swop them round so each has one QR and one normal vice when I get...

But if he'd not uploaded them as 40-80second snippets, he'd probably have a reasonable number of videos.

There's still time! Mr Hawley is still alive (or at least he was at Easter when I had the pleasure of meeting him by chance at Kelham Island). When I was speaking to him, he was saying that they were hoping to have a bigger and more detailed exhibition space in the not too distant future, but...

So long as you never have a hand directly inline with or close behind the block, I can't see why it would be dangerous. Even with the hand close behind, so long as you have good control of the board (and are aware of what's happening so you can minimize the risk of a kick-back drawing your hand...

So long as you securely attach a new one, I would think all would be fine... it's just if it gets damaged because it's flexing as you cut it down that I would be concerned about.

That I can't help you with, though from my limited experience of them I would think that a jigsaw on a low speed (whilst fairly slow and noisy) would be one of the more gentle ways of cutting it, probably more so than using a big handsaw. It's more to do with how rigid it would remain once the...

I was thinking of that cabinet, the wardrobe seems like it would work, re-using the doors might be a bit tricky (they look like frame and panel which could be awkward to re-size, but you could definitely make shorter, workable doors out of them with a little thought). It all really depends on...