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I've had a Felder table/panel saw for many years now and have tried a number of different Felder blades, which I found to be less than impressive given their cost. For the past few years I have been using Freud LP70M 003 315mm Dia 24T for just about everything from very hard oak to polystyrene...

With the British weather, building the roof first makes a lot of sense, especially if you want to use exposed structural timbers internally. I remember well the sleepless nights worrying that the rain and wind would damage the glulam beams. I wonder whether it could be applied to a full 3...

If you get into turning, you are likely to want a CBN wheel and a 250 Watt bench grinder will not do the job. I ended up buying the Axminster 900Watt grinder to run the CBN wheel, although I did put a wire wheel and a metal buffing wheel on the old grinder, so it still serves a purpose. If...

I have a shelf in my shower (to put the toiletries on) and used Corian. You can work it quite easily with a router and if you need to join it the bonding resin is very effective and, provided you colour match it, you can' see the join. It's been there for 20 years or more and shows no signs of...

Roy I'm basically a woodworker and have the 3 phase for my machines. A couple of years back, on a whim, I bought a metal lathe (Chinese again, but a 12/30 gear head, so reasonably capable) to play with and have enjoyed doing bits and pieces with it, particularly when they can be incorporated...

Thanks for all the responses. The Esab Ok 46.30 from Engweld or the IMPAX from Screwfix look to be in the price/quality "sweet zone", so I'll go for one of those. As to the power supply, the welder is a Minleaf ZX7-250 and the spec sheet says it can supply up to 250 Amps at 27 Volts. By my...

Thanks for the link. The MIG Welding Forum had some useful posts. It seems there is a difference and not necessarily based purely on price.

Hi I asked for, and was given, a cheap (Chinese) mini-welder for Christmas and am currently installing a 30 Amp socket to run it. The next thing will be welding rods and although I have decided to start with 6013 2.5mm rods, there is a huge range of these available at and equally huge cost...

I have all 3 types of sander (plus a belt sander which I rarely use and a 30 inch disc sander which scares the life out of me!) For large flat areas the I use the ROS (blue Bosch 150), but usually with the item to be sanded removed (or not yet installed) and on the bench. If space is tight I...

I "cut my teeth" on a second hand (likely 10th plus hand!) Wadkin 150 which turned out to be a project in itself. Rather than spend my time refurbishing it, I bit the bullet and bought a new Stratos FU230 with the bed extension. It's a brilliant piece of kit and the bed extension gives you 1.05m...

If you are going to make any furniture or other items for the house in your workshop, it's important to keep the timber at or close to the temperature and humidity of your home. Otherwise the piece could shrink and warp once the central heating gets a hold of it. My preference would be to build...

Yep. Still turning. I think the last thing I made was the spring-loaded thing that goes down the middle of a loo roll. I wanted it in Ash to match the rest of the furniture I made for the bathroom. Even sprayed it with pre-cat stain to match.