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well this stuff is eye watering ,cross ones legs expensive - berken multiplex 18mm wisa twin 244x122cm | PontMeyer € 37,95 per M2 =125 per 8 x 4 sheet and Russian B/BBply is even more at € 99,11per M2

Dropped a small payment in - hope it works out for him. K

Some nice work done there peeps, so I better post a quick job done for a friend of a friend of mine, not quite a mates rate job, but it got me working with some real wood and not glued wood dust 🤣 Asked to make a 7m shelf and a sideboard. Christ ! Oak costs a fortune in the UK £3500, then asked...

Looking ab so lutely fantastic. Highly jealous of the new owners machine ( when you sell it) Karl W

But one gets to buy more toys (ahem tools) when the design committee approves the design 😁

Not bad for 18v. Be nicer if I can find a 8mm collet for it, as most of my bits are 8mm 🙄but then I'd go for the Makita 18v though twice the cost.

Well, as I'm going to be here more often and for longer periods due too my dad's illnesses and pestering to help run his business, selling old used furniture and bits 🙄. I needed a mancave / workshop 😁. So, have the mancave but need a bench to work on, fed up of the old door on trestles. This is...

First part of a 20m picket fence to keep *#£@ dogs pooping on my dad's front garden. Plus finally getting a hybrid workbench glued up from joinery grade 4 by 2 redwood.

thanks peeps for the heads up , just ordered mine :)

yes I know of them, but never used them, do they make a high gloss outta interest? K

True Jacob, the main reason oil based paints are banned for profesionals [in NL ] is the fact that painters suffered from very early dementia through constant exposure to the "poot" or in English the evaporating VOC , mainly synthetic turpentine oils, sikatifs [ hardeners] and thinners but one...

nope its Grachten groen = which is a dark british reacing green with a pinch of black. Older painters used oil paint with a touch of turps and a really good brush. A dark grey primer, then lak plamuur = paint with filler and a colourant to suit top coat, then 2 coats of gloss. Todays regs has...

working in Amsterdam when the last 2 happened the dewalts got nicked out of my workshop in Chipping Norton - bleeding sparky left the door unlocked whole having lunch 🤬🤬🤬

I'd like to grab it, I'm in Holland at the mo , but will be back in Oxon next month , so if you can wait, I'll be over to collect it. Karl

Hi all, just to add my sixpence worth to this conversation.:cool: I tarted out like most here - DW 12v syetem - had the trim saw,drill , driver , right angle drill, grinder and jigsaw. thet all got nicked out of my shop , LOL just as the batteries were dying, so weren'tthat great a steal...

A very interesting topic this one, I retired from my first real job after 17 years - HM Army, left and learned a new trade of Antique restoration and retired from that trade when the arse fell out of antique trade and switched over to custom furniture and interiors. Like some of the old gaffers...

I found a blacksmith who's willing and able to repair it , for £80 :oops: but then it will be done proper - his words, so 🤞 looking forward to taking it off your hands. Karl

Have to agree, wish mine was as neat in the inside, I just threw my small hand tools in , one day I 'll get it done, but paying work comes first though. K

I'll have it , if your ever down this way Banbury pm me and I'll give you my number Karl

Well this is interesting, I wonder when our cousins on the other side of the pond will react here ??? As a semi self taught joiner /furniture maker I prefer hand tool wooddwork over power tools , but if I wanted to pay my bills on time when I started I would be bankrupt before the second job was...