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If you can find a wooden slatted venetian blind (at the tip?) the slats are a pretty consistent 2.5mm thick. I keep the spare slats from blinds that I've shortened and use them for all sorts. Really useful things.

Being naturally thrifty (alright - mean!) I learned a lot from making my own handles for chisels that I bought new from China (with replaceable inserts - £15-£25) or second hand at farmers markets/car boot sales. The wood came from pallets (the crate type used for stone slabs - usually from...

When you are working with green oak of these dimensions you buy it sawn to order at a nominal size. Unless you want the sawn finish, you then have to plane it, rather than thickness it, (unless you have a serious thicknesser and can handle 100+Kg timbers!). Because you are planing it, you...

If you are starting from scratch, I built a pergola from scratch last year. Although I've been working with wood for over 50 years, this was the first time I'd used green oak, and soon found out it is very different to working with dry timber. For a start it is very heavy, about 1150 Kg/cu m...

Are you erecting a kit with pre-cut joints or making from scratch?

Transatlantic I couldn't get my head around what you are trying to achieve here, but then I saw the Advanced lathe Tools "double-barrelled" boring bar Boring Bars | Advanced Lathe Tools by Steve Sinner Is this what you are wanting to make?

I'm about to start doing exactly the same, but I'm going to brush paint the carcasses with Farrow and Ball Estate Eggshell. When we built the kitchen we sprayed the doors etc, but on the last coat we ran a brush over it when the paint (actually pre-cat lacquer) was still wet to give a hand...

Forest Mars (yes, that was his name) invented (developed, introduced?) the Mars Bar in 1932, so to be able to remember pre-MB days would make Geoff_S .......let's see now. ..........I used to be able to do this ........... Nope, where's me slide rule?

Or 13 shillings for a Mars bar!

When you can't bring yourself to pay ten bob for an orange!

I made these for my daughter-in-law's birthday. The frames are maple, the feet are walnut and the roof is laminate flooring. The writing round the base was routed on a cheap (Chinese) CNC engraver then filled with wood filler and sanded back before finishing. Just to give some scale, the...

How about the Wera advent calendar for £135. Only £85 more than they were new! Bargain. But alan895 is right. The guy selling the Axminster catalogues is still in the lead.

I'm not an apologist for the police, but when I think of the range and sophistication of crimes they have to cover, many of which didn't exist 20 years ago, it's amazing they can solve any at all. Add to that the level of proof they need to provide to bring a successful prosecution and you can...

Can we please have a thread called "Joke Thread Car Park" so that those who feel the need can discuss their grievances outside, without smashing up the furniture. Mod edit: You get to start the new Joke thread.

....... "so was after any recommendations of any in the UK I can look to use." I have used Johnstones Quickdry Polyurethane Floor water based varnish for many years and it has done a good job. I have sprayed it, rolled it and used a brush. It takes well to solid wood and MDF and if you shop...

If you have 25,000 euro's available have a look at the Felder combination machines. I have been using a CF741S Pro for many years and it does everything I have ever needed. It is very well built and with 3 motors it's very easy to switch between functions. It does need quite a lot of space...

For the top - I have started to use threaded inserts You could put these in the underside of the top (I glue mine in rather than relying on the outer ridges alone) and bolt into them from below. Obviously you would recess the bold head so it couldn't be seen, but it would make a good solid...

I had thought of just adding a cyclone to my system, but all the designs I've seen have the cyclone on the "suck" side of the impeller. This would require a new rigid bin which would receive most of the dust and shavings, leaving very little for the current bag. Then retaining the same dust...

Please keep going with this thread as I'm interested in your findings. I have a conventional extraction system with bag-type extractor which I don't use as much as I would (should) like as it is so noisy. It was suggested that I move it outside, but the workshop is heated and sucking all the...

I think you need to buy gouges, as making them would be quite difficult, but for the most part I buy cheap Chinese TC tools with no handles and make the handles on the lathe. I've used the wood from packing cases and plugged the nail holes. The ferrules are offcuts from 28mm copper pipe...