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Sammy, that sounds fine because you are getting what you pay for. However F & C purports to be a woodworking magazine and what we now appear to have is an 80% interiors magazine masquerading as a woodworking magazine. Either they've done their market research and there's a massive public for...

Does anybody else take this magazine? The editor has moved on to something else and the mag has been completely revamped. I can imagine that it could maybe have nothing at all to do with woodworking by the time of the fourth issue from now. It's more like a chi-chi N London style mag (the look...

Again!!!??!!??!! In a perfect world England would beat Japan in the final. I do hope that Japan beats S Africa in the quarters.

Thank you for all the replies. I've been doing some research on the internet and it looks like the consensus is more or less for something like Osmo PolyX. Got to be worth a try. Thanks again.

Is it possible to apply wax to a decent bit of wood to really bring the grain out and then to preserve the effect by coating it with e.g. Danish Oil? If not D.O. then is there something else that would do the job? The reason I ask is that the wood in question is a table top and is so...

I think that might be true for some folk but I think I'm living proof that it's not so in all cases. I have to use MS at work and so had a Microsoft laptop at home. It got slower and slower so eventually I had enough and thought I'd try an iMac (the desktop Apple) as it was on offer due to new...

I've got some Colt bits and they do the business with no problems. That said, I use an eggbeater drill, which might not be of relevance if you're going to use a power drill.

Sometimes I order tools from the UK and I hate it when they end up being delivered by GLS. The delivery bloke drops a slip in the letter box saying that as I wasn't in, it has been dropped off at the collection point (a small supermarket in the nearby village). He then takes two or three days to...

I did wonder if the weather had played a role in terms of sapping away at fitness levels. That said, on the basis of this morning's performance I wouldn't even like to make a guess at how Scotland will get on against them.

I'm not so sure. I thought there were indications of a distinctive style emerging: very quick passing and a rock solid pack, the latter being a bit of a surprise. And I don't know if the lineouts they won were down to Irish mistakes or their own cleverness. It seems to me that they're...

You need an upset in any sort of world championship and it's always nice to see underdogs doing well but against one of the four nations!!!! I started the match sure Ireland would take them to the cleaners but hoped they would get a try or too. Now I'm hoping the Irish can sort themselves out...

Could it be the dinger that strikes a bell to make it ring? That might fit with the Fire Service as before sirens they used to have bells (if the old films are to be believed).

I've never checked. However, the fact that the mortice chisel is made by Veritas and the fact that I get a bang on square cut 9 out of 10 times (a success rate which represents a big improvement over time and which I hope to continue to better) suggests to me that the chisel is probably spot on...

This is a good one. https://www.dictum.com/en/coping-saws-b ... -75-712548 It's robust, does the business and takes Pegas blades. There might be a bigger size as well. Mine serves me well. The only near fault I can find is that I'd prefer it if it had a wooden handle.

Thanks for the link, Tyreman. To be honest I don't think I would need that jig unless I were using a wildly unsuitable chisel or fiendishly uncooperative wood and the barcode seems to be all I need because laying the tip of the chisel in each cut greatly reduces the risk of twisting although as...

Andy, I've treated myself to one of the new Veritas morticing chisels and its design makes the job significantly easier but nonetheless I still occasionally manage to twist a bit out of true. One of the reasons I'm so pleased with the knifed-in barcode idea is that it has resulted in even fewer...

I'm getting better through practise as well and would hope to be one day reliably good doing it freehand. However, I wish I'd had the barcode idea ages ago as it would done away with a lot of frustration. By the way, I had no idea that anybody had developed a jig for this task.

Although I'm slowly getting better, I've always had difficulty when chopping out mortices in that I occasionally have the chisel skew to the long axis of the mortice. This obviously results in too much of a cut on one side and too little on the other. Do it a lot and the mortice can end up being...

That's impressive work, Jeremy. I've been thinking of signing up for a veneering/marquetry course at Dictum, if I can find the time. I suppose it is a lot less fiddly than it looks ... once you've learned how.

I suppose that's fairly obvious now you mention it. Would I be right in presuming that a prerequisite is that you always saw with the full length of the blade so as to avoid it developing a hollow? I ask because I'm slowly psyching myself up to trying to sharpen a saw which has got a bit blunt...