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Same here, but mine gets used for a lot more than just narrow stuff. As I don't use a tablesaur, any components that need to be identical or made to an exact length are done on the shooter, even the top and bottom of my current job which are 380mm wide and over a metre long - Rob

Yep, an established technique but build Inghamish drawers and you don't need to...simples - Rob

I use the same sort of jig from Ax; I can set three blades in my Jet 260 spot on in around ten minutes - Rob

Yes Mike, it is a faff, agreed, but I like doing my drawers this way! Rebated runners on the drawer sides, in my very 'umble opinion is the stuff of Argos bedroom furniture (and I've just dismantled a complete old suite) and Ikea (now about to wash gob out with soap and water :lol: ) Of...

Thanks John; this was a cabinet in English Walnut to hold a couple of Venetian papier mache carnival masks, one part of which is the gold bit behind the glass - Rob

When I was working in the trade, my then boss was an ex-student of Parnham and their nickname for Rob Ingham was very simple...'God' - Rob

The other way this can be done is to plane both the internal corners of the leg to 45deg, thus creating a 90deg mating surface. I did this a few years ago on this wall hung cabinet... ...which seemed to work, but it might be trickier to make legs in this way - Rob

Having seen this, they will do soon :lol: :lol: - Rob

Although works of fiction or rather 'faction' the Sharpe novels (not the TV series which is rubbish IMO) give a pretty good account of the Duke of Wellington's campaigns in the Peninsular War during the early years of the 19th Cent. Cornwell writes a great yarn and effortlessly weaves Richard...

Yep, a Dust Deputy or similar works a treat... Not a particularly elegant solution, but it works. The collection bin is an old air tight fish food bucket which has been reinforced half way down with a plywood hoop; without it the bucket is prone to collapse under the suckage...which is a lot...

I've made loads of shooting boards over the years and this is the best one I've ever seen. It's simple, adjustable, easy, cheap to make and it works. Change the block or fence at the end and you can quite easily shoot 40mm square oak as I did recently - Rob

My thoughts exactly; these things are 'shop made jigs from offcuts loafing around and they get pretty severely chewed up after a few months. £75 is having a larf :lol: - Rob

Strangely, yes, so did I. The jig is superbly accurate and beautifully made but why he didn't go the extra mile and source decent accurate dowels is anybody's guess. What I do is to use them for rough assembly knowing that they can be relatively easily removed and then use more accurate, tighter...

I think the classic one is with chairs where the back legs were doweled and then some little 'oik' sat on it and leaned it back, raising the front legs off the ground. Not that I've ever done that when I were a lad :lol: - Rob

I'm not sure about that one Jacob. His stuff is incredibly complicated (more wood 'engineering' if that's a term to use?) so he's developed his own unique ways to make his pieces which may or may not incorporate old ways but I suspect there's not many of them. He also damaged his back a long...

I have to agree Custard. How he makes his stuff is beyond me; just trying to read through the text on some of his old articles in F&C is enough to give me brain ache. His designs are definitely an 'acquired' taste, but a very few are quite respectable, though you can count those on the fingers...

You miss the point entirely Jacob. Look earlier in this thread to see Rob Ingham's chest of drawers where the front of the piece is entirely veneered to make a seamless pattern. The way that Rob Ingham did this is to make the drawers, then ensure that the fronts were a righty tighty fit before...

Much as I like Workshop Heaven, this might be a jig too far :shock: - Rob

You wins some, you loose some :lol: As a matter of interest, Dowlmax loaned Derek J the same hydraulic rig and he did very similar tests and reached the same conclusions; his results are documented in a back issue of F&C which I've got stashed away somewhere but I can't be ar&ed to go and dig...

Yep, I can. Busy at the mo' drum sanding veneers, but I sort it out and post a few pics. It isn't my method btw but one I came across in Rob Ingham's book 'Cutting Edge Cabinetmaking' which has, as has been mentioned above by 'marcros', sadly out of print but you might be able to get hold of a...