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I watched the Conkers live event where Richard Findley featured and he was asked the very same question. He said that he could not see any advantage at all and he no longer has a traditional scraper. He did mention about rolling the edge a bit more with a piece of HSS rod but then I do that with...

So come on, having now tempted everyone let’s see some earlier shots:)

Have you considered old railway sleepers in RSJ supports?

It’s a fairly generic design still sold by Metabo and Record so there may be the opportunity for spares down that route? I have the Metabo version and it works well enough but you need to take small cuts. The blade alignment needs to be done carefully, reference off the planer top using a length...

Here we go, I stole one of my wife’s plant holders. Straightened in out and made a torsion bar. And then added to the door using metal p-clips. 90 degrees of torsion made no difference so I removed and adjusted so there was 180 degrees of torsion, this has taken out 80% of the twist but I...

They’re very nice doors but wouldn’t match the style of doors in the rest of the house. However it does give me an idea. If I can’t make the current doors work then I could try an MDF base and then glue thin (8mm) matching on the front to give the right look. That composite may be a bit more...

I have been doing this and it has shifted slightly over a couple of days. I did wonder about wetting/steaming the outside to encourage it over but that may make it worse...

Would certainly give my missus’s arm a good workout, of course I‘m not implying that she’s the only one to use the airing cupboard... :whistle:

That is a very interesting approach, effectively a torsion beam car suspension for a door, good lateral thinking. Easy to fit too.

It‘s a lovely looking chest, brilliant, but how much does it weigh?

Thanks for this. Agree about the pine. There’s a reclamation yard not to far from me who take old pine floorboards, run them through their planer and moulder before turning them into ledge doors. They charge £100 per door last time I bought some, it must cost them that in planer blades...would...

Yes, it’s an airing cupboard, hot water tank, heating pipes, pump.... so I think clamping the door firmly shuts makes even more sense.

I used old style clenched nails and the timber is only 14mm so the doors should be able to flex and move. Holding the doors closed firmly makes a lot of sense, I’ll have to think how to achieve this as there’s no centre jam.

I copied the existing style of doors, none of which have diagonal braces, but they were probably made out of better pine 150 years ago. Looking at the door with the hinges on the right it’s the bottom left corner that sticks out. Wouldn’t the brace have to go from that corner to make a...

I made a couple of large cupboard doors (1.8m) to try and match the existing pine Victorian doors in the house. Didn’t have much choice of wood during lockdown, stock issues and inability to hand sort. In the end I ordered a load of pine v-groove tongue and groove matching and picked the best to...

Excellent work. With the skills people have on here I can’t help but wonder if this group couldn’t design and build its own set of community machines and then have them manufactured.... A couple of questions about the gas strut. Can you mount them either way up or does the cylinder have to go...

The first are hole punches for leather and the like. The second looks like a glass cutter.

I have the genuine Makita dust hose, it’s very flexible and light and doesn’t get in the way. Only issue I have is that it wails like a banshee whilst you’re using it, perhaps my henry has too much suction, but I have wear ear defenders!

Further TS-250 improvements. Two simple mods that have transformed my saw. Fixed blade raising / lowering resistance. Allowed 45 degree cuts to be made with the blade at low heights It was getting harder and harder to raise the blade, especially at the lower settings. Eventually the handle of...

Toyo, Manix, Saki & Proxxon lathes