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Axminster and Record offerings come well recommended, but learn how to set your machine up correctly (it's not difficult) and please buy a couple of top quality blades; it makes a world of difference. I can recommend Ax Diamond Ground which are superb but Tuff saw blades aren't too shabby either...

Tosh Jacob :lol: Look at the projects in my sig block below; almost all of them were made without recourse to a tablesaw. What it depends on is how you work and the methodologies you employ and a tablesaw ain't one of them - Rob

So you do use the No.4 occasionally Bob :lol: :lol: - Rob

Yep, spot on; I do more or less the same. To reiterate, you don't actually need a tablesaw although most newcomers tend to think it's 'must have' in a 'shop...it's not. A decent bandsaw with reasonable capacity (depth of cut and width of cut) is a much better investment. And yes, go for a good...

'murican or nae, her use of an unguarded table saw was sadly an all too common sight on UToob, but to her credit, she did use a really good shooting board was to be commended. Personally, I don't like stuff made up from a multitude of different offcuts as to me, it looks like what it is...a...

I have heard tell of the same sort of thing with the spiny side, but as I don't turn to sell (mostly) I always ask...."how many bowls do I actually need in the house?" Couple of fruit bowls, one or two ornamental ones loitering about and that's it. That said, I do have about twenty blanks...

I had a similar problem, though not on a vertical gate post. What I'd advise is one of these drill guides. Dispense with the rubbishy plastic bit but use the steel 12mm guide on top of a thick block which you've already drilled out at 12mm dead square. The steel guide ensures that the drill...

Both PM's replied to with bank transfer details; please let me have your postal addresses for forwarding on the planes - Rob

A couple of small router planes which are now surplus; firstly an Axminster Rider 271: £22 to include p&p SOLD Secondly, a miniature Veritas router plane with a domino used as a size comparison. This can be mistaken for a toy, but is very useful for getting into really small places...

Yep, straight forward PVA clamped or weighted down - Rob

The teaching bit all sounds very familiar Steve. Unlike Sam, I had a twenty year sentence at the 'chalk face' but all my teaching was done in the workshop with kids of eleven and up - Rob

A simple chunk of wood around 25mm thick is all you really need for a chopping/serving board and offcuts are ideal. Over Christmas, our No.1 son mentioned that he didn't have a cheeseboard in his flat, so just after Boxing Day I had a rummage through one of my offcut boxes and found a 250mm...

Pitch Pine. Nice stuff but full of resin (which used to be used, maybe still is (?) to make turpentine) I used a small amount of it years ago and recollect that it was quite difficult to glue because of the resin content - Rob

It's good stuff; I quite like it but as I said above it seems to improve the final effect of other finishes applied over it. To be fair, I haven't tried all the variants yet but thus far it seems to be OK. Unlike the Liberon Finishing Oil that I've used in the past, there's no 'build up' with...

Elm is liable to move and twist quite a lot. Assuming that the board you bought was air dried, the moisture content ought to be around 20% so bringing it into a warm room quite suddenly could produce unexpected movement. I've found with elm that it's best to take it quite slowly, letting it...

My first workshop was my parents 7'x5' garden shed; it was uninsulated, bitterly cold in winter, it had a leak (like most garden sheds) but it was still my workshop :D I remember I made a 5' long pine refectory table in it and a mahogany, leather upholstered dressing stool for my gran...still...

I found that the Peacock Oil seemed to give an extra depth of finish to the Osmo. I'm not sure if it's my imagination, but it seemed to have some sort of additional 'lustre' that Osmo alone didn't provide - Rob

A scrubbed finish was one of the late and very great Alan Peters favourite methods of finishing. See the relevant section in his book 'Cabinetmaking, the Professional Approach' to see how he did it - Rob

A box to hold medication for my cousin. Nothing fancy, made from oddments of quarter sawn oak, dovetailed together with a hand carved thumb pull left from the tool. The top was mitred to cover the small square holes that would otherwise need plugging. Finished with three coats of Peacock...

I agree...it looks as if there's a bit missing, but the exposed m/t joints are a good touch; better in my view if they're about 3mm proud and then rounded over. Tricky to do but easy when you've done a few - Rob