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That elastic band trick is stunning! - Rob

Depends whether you go for green/wet timber which will need to be thoroughly dried, normal air dried timber, or kilned. I bought some green planks of English oak and London Plane last August which were off the scale on my moisture meter when I started to air dry them. I tested them again this...

I have the original Rider No.4 cast brass, pre-production prototype, for which I made a teak tote and front knob. Definitely not for giving away :lol: - Rob

I thought the silverwork was excellent as well. However, did anyone see how she brought a roughly planished bowl to a finished and polished state, where almost all the hammer marks had been removed? My guess is that somewhere 'off camera' there was a electrickery silversmithing polishing set up...

Agree Graham about the chisels which are Narex's with better handles. The Rider planes though are a bit of mixed bag, sometimes goodish and at other times bloody awful, but those that have tried them have left decent enough reviews on the Ax website - Rob

I've got small Clifton shoulder plane which is superb, but the mouth was so tight it needed easing with a needle file. I've also got one of the old bronze bodied LN shoulder planes with the wooden wedge which appear to be no longer made - Rob

Exactly; 12mm is a narrowish blade but if the saw is set up correctly, in my experience, you don't really need a wide blade for deep cutting. Regarding my mod to my other bandsaw...there's always more than one way to skin the proverbial ***** cat :lol: Moving the lower blade guide assembly up...

Not in my experience. I use a 12mm wide (possibly a little wider) Ax DG blade on my big bs which will cheerfully produce 2 or 3mm thick veneers. The deepest I've cut so far is 250mm but the machine has a much greater DOC which I haven't so far used - Rob

I always use Axminster Diamond Ground blades which are quite superb; I had a couple of Tuff saw blades as well and they were pretty good too. Not a lot to choose between them IMO - Rob

You won't do better than to go on a course with Chris Tribe who has a teaching workshop at Ilkley, which is in your neck of the woods. His book is also highly recommended btw as I reviewed it for him a couple of years ago. His advanced chair making course was one that I was interested in but...

Glad I wasn't the only one! :lol: :lol: :lol: - Rob

I used to use the DMT's and found them pretty good, if a little small in size to use with a honing guide, so several years ago I switched over the 3M scary sharp films from Workshop Heaven. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the DMT's but, as I say, I found them a little impractical to use...

The Parf Guide system isn't bad and is pretty accurate. If you do a lot of work with with sheet stuff it's quite useful and less expensive than a full blown MFT table. I built a smallish Parf Guide table a few years ago but tbh I haven't used it a great deal. What I have done though, is to cover...

Classic piece, stunning in fact - Rob

I guess this is trade waste you're trying to dispose of? Difficult I guess because of the sheer volume of dust and chippings that can be generated by a business. I think most hobbyists (like me for example) don't have too much of an issue simply because we (read I here) don't produce all that...

Yep, seen him a few times at various shows; muchly over-rated IMHO - Rob

Seb, if that thought had crossed your mind, then you're thinking along the same lines as me. If I were doing table tops in hardwood, I would rough cut to size with a hand held circular saw ('Skill saw') and then use the p/t to bring the component parts to size. Fwiw, when I was working in the...

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:...need to go to Specsavers :lol: - Rob

Unless I'm missing something Mike, the end elevations on A,B,C & D all look to be the same? - Rob

The first tablesaur I had was the K419 and as you rightly say, a nice little saw but the slider wasn't a lot of use; difficult to set up and not especially accurate. The Charnwood saws use the same type of arrangement with exactly the same issues. In the end I got fairly disenchanted with table...