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Peter Sefton has probably got one of the best schools currently and the syllabus for his long course deals with the business aspect in Term 3 but there appears to be a caveat of 'should they wish.' There's a little optional bit tacked onto the end dealing with 'Self Employment, writing a...

As you rightly say, t'interweb is very useful when you're doing some research on a specific topic, or you need a quick answer to solve a particular problem and even then, you may not find it, which is why I don't bother very much with all the UToobers although some are much better than others...

I went to a similar show in Cheltenham during the 70's when I was at uni to see many of the classic English A&C pieces by the Barnsley's, one of which was the domed linen chest with the exposed dovetails on the lid. At that time, there were none of these new fangled smartfones and digital...

I happen to agree with Custard but I'm also curious to see what his reply will be before I pitch in with my 2 euros worth - Rob

Agreed, never used one and they're entirely unsuitable for the sort of work I do. What little mouldings I use can be easily accommodated on the router table - Rob

Fair enoughski, your viewpoint is as valid as mine and I won't be discussing this topic any time soon; consider it closed - Rob

Sorry, but again my experience is at odds with yours...c'est la guerre! :D This fairly innocuous chunk of stuff in the infamous 'Wood from Hell' :evil: :evil: ... ...that did the rounds on UKW a few years ago. I don't know what it is but some research online led me to believe that it's...

Sorry, my three Veritas planes would beg to differ :D I gave up using planes with a cap iron over a decade ago and even then my go to bench plane was a Norris A1 panel plane. I've got an Ulmia wooden smoothing plane (lignum sole) with an adjustable mouth - Rob

Agreed, what I just said, but it's also ridiculously easy to alter both the mouth setting and the high cutting angle. All my Veritas planes cut at 54deg including the bed angle and that can be changed simply by honing the bevel at a lower angle; about three or four minutes work - Rob

Not sure about chipbreaker thing though; if you consider low angle Veritas planes, there's no chipbreaker but the mouth can be set very fine and they'll deal with the gnarliest grain by cutting with a very high effective pitch. Sorry to go OT a little my mentioning metal planes - Rob

Bloody Hell Bob...nearly fell off me chair! I thought you might be migrating to to the 'dark side' but then again, you might have wanted a slightly posher object to keep the 'shop door open in the warm weather :lol: :lol: - Rob

Polyvine Acrylic Wax, available in dead flat matt, satin and lots of other shades. Each thin coat takes around 10 minutes to harden off in this warm weather, then de-nib and apply some more. It's easy to apply four coats within the hour. This is part of my linen chest build in Olive Ash...

I've got a half dozen of the longest of those particular sash cramps and they're fine; no problems whatsoever, a couple shown in action... ...gluing up a very large chest of drawers - Rob

Just take it off as others have said; I had a similar issue on one of my bandsaws but easily fixed when the offending part is shown the bin - Rob

Just to throw a Spanniard in the works; have you considered whether a tablesaur is the right type of saw, or would a bandsaw be better? It does depend on what sort of work you do; long straight cuts in boards of one sort or another are easiest on a tablesaur (though the same can be accomplished...

I've just ordered a tub of Yorkshire Grit to try it out. My current regime is to power sand with the Swedish Kirjes system and a Flexipad sander using Abranet abrasives and as far as I can tell, there's no discernible scratch pattern using 80, 120, 180, 240, 320 and 400g so it's going to be...

I was tempted (briefly it has to be said) to get rid of my Tormek and buy one of these things; but having fitted a coarse diamond wheel to the T7 machine it overcomes all the faults that seemed to plague it and which made life a misery; continually re-truing (a thing of the past) glazing over at...

I believe they're somewhere in Londres Steve, but they do an excellent service by post. IIRC, I rang them up and spoke to a bloke and described exactly what I was after (I think it was Crown Cut Oak) and a big roll of veneer arrived shortly afterwards - Rob

I've used Capital Crispin (https://www.capitalcrispin.com/) in the past for a couple of small orders and they were excellent - Rob

This is what that very same kit originally went into...a horned smoother, with a greenheart sole and fully adjustable mouth. Part one - https://knowledge.axminster.co.uk/how-t ... ne-part-1/ Part two - https://knowledge.axminster.co.uk/how-t ... ne-part-2/ ...but I made a fundamental error in...