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I have the mid/high range taken care of by "sold as full range but pretty small" speakers I gave a cosmetic boost to and put on mahogany stands and I have a very stylish old hollow mahogany fluted column I'd turn (sideways) into a bass channel speaker or two as a tweak. Back in my hi-fi days I...

I was thinking of something similar - but connected to a stereo amp with no separate low freq channel - I know a bit about inductance, capacitance for frequency division, but does anyone have an easy wiring/electronics answer (I'm at least as stingy as sploo, so no exotics, but a ready-made...

That's the way I'm thinking --- but it's very shallow, a small fraction of the depth of yours ------

I bought this vice on the bay a few years ago, it's a well made cast iron clamp-on, jaw width over 7ins, opens 2.5ins or so, not much depth. Seems to only usefully fit on corner of table/bench as shown - any other position obscures tommy bar or access in use. Typically, after buying I saw two...

?stonemason/quarryman tool? - a chisel/'drill'/'jumper' - the side bars to be hit from the other side to get the chisel out without splitting the stone by levering too much --- seen something a bit similar but longer The other tool with sidebars is a scythe 'anvil' - stick it into any stump of...

Just been re-framing several pictures and using an old diamond tip glass cutter like this - very pleased with my ~90% success rate - it's all old glass and I was told by a glazier - 'don't even bother trying to cut old glass'. -- clean the glass, drop of oil, one firm cut (on flat hardboard...

Nookie??? What would auntie think? (I believe these were called 'auntie' Rovers)

Yup to your responses, but if photo white balance is a bit off could easily be steel/ The glass cutter is prob a diamond tip - no wheel then needed

What a coincidence - my old Austin/Rover was imported from the same place - plenty of faults - then I had a couple of German cars - not without problems (and v expensive to fix) but better than the previous however despite all sorts of adjustments they were not comfortable, nor was driving...

I can see why you would want cheap brushes for glue but a few workmen seem to go the opposite way and demand top quality for everything - we had a pair of generally very skilled builders doing a job that also involved a fibreglass roof - not easy to get the right setting times in cold weather -...

Beware -- I was involved in a few patents and eventually (as a manager of a small division of a largeish international group) decided to steer clear where poss and just protect process info by keeping it secret as long as poss. An example - as one of the developers we were invited to join a...

Just make sure you're not on board when it's launched in front of the monarch. (I looked at the M R museum some years ago - all of the Portsmouth dockyards are v interesting for woodworking history -- has it been updated recently?)

Unlike the 'straight conic section' of some recent v expensive chisels, this slightly different profile of the hand forged socket (call it a 'slightly convex' cone), in my experience these handles never fall out of the socket. I really like the chisel you show at the top, Sm, and my favourite...

Yes - a heavy socket mortice chisel of the older type (especially pre WWII) as used by wagon-makers, wheelwrights, house framers, boat builders, working with ash, oak etc. One grade tougher even than the heaviest of the 'pig stickers'. I have a few widths of this type by various Sheffield...

mmm stumped - look like broaches, but would expect broaches to have steps in sizes so they could cut progressively larger; look like reamers, but they are usually turned in a hole to enlarge it; look like they'd fit on a fly press but it would need a much longer throw and deeper bed than usual...

coincidently, just this am was looking at the latest post on a US thread (Vises on Garagejournal) where a guy chasing a large vice said the first relevant lot was an anvil which went for $5600 - it was about 400kg, but still .........

Good for you. For those who have less valuable, but still serviceable/repairable tools they can be donated to 'Tools for Self Reliance' or 'Tools for Life' which assemble kits for their beneficiaries - should be able to find a branch of some such in your area (and might find it rewarding to...

I'm lucky enough to have bought my smallish (not 'toy') anvil for a v few quid many years ago and use a cut-off piece of 'I' beam if outside. one further confirmation of the demand (unless they're all unsold) is the number of sections of railway track being sold for the buyer to convert - just...

Yes - the Swann PM40 is good as a marking knife as well as a post-mortem knife. Incidently a very interesting company - started many decades ago by a union man and woman disgruntled with the bosses and and later given by him to the workers - the executives almost all come from the shop-floor...

Never done it myself, but if some of the so-called top quality chisels are too hard (chasing high hardness boasting rights?) what about a gentle extra tempering? eg a few tens minutes at about 180C? - easy in a domestic cooking oven. (shouldn't be distorting? (although they are bi-metals) and...