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LOL... you beat me to it!

I thought that promoting methods of self harm was against YouTube rules. I wonder if Stihl have seen that video. I can't imagine that they would be very happy with one of their products being so prominent in a "build your own auto-amputation device" video. Perhaps a Stihl representative should...

You are absolutely right to point out that the chart posted by deema showing percentage of accidents is potentially very misleading. For those without statistics training (or natural statistical savvy) an imaginary example might serve: Imagine 100 people who had an accident with power tools of...

Looks like Yew to me too. Here is a picture of some boards I cut from a Yew tree late last year:

There are many very useful videos demonstrating how to do dovetails by hand on youtube. Some have slightly different techniques for the different steps (some requiring or using different tools), so you may want to look at several of these videos. You will then at least get a good idea for the...

My eyebrows raised when I read this. I can't recommend this as a strategy. The meths will certainly burn (and if done outside, your workshop won't!), but very little of the oil will burn off either and as recipio said the wood won't burn too much either, unless you use too much meths, of course...

I also recently restored (or at least rebuilt) an old work bench. Fortunately I did not have to deal with glued joints. All the joints (through mortice and tenons) were held in place by rods and bolts or coach screws, with the table top being fixed in place by coach screws. The timber is pine, I...

I can give a thumbs up to this thread. I had an issue with the blade jacking screws on my new PT310 planer thicknesser being a bit chewed up. Which makes levelling replacement blades a nightmare. But Record Power have sent me some replacement screws in the post. That, after they had sent me...

When you pass the board over the cutter (planer/jointer), where do you apply downward pressure? I have been told that as soon as there is enough of the board on the outfeed table to allow it, then the primary downward pressure should be applied there. If you apply too much pressure on the infeed...

Ah, thanks for that. I was wondering how you would introduce tension in to a circular plate of metal, but I hadn't got around to doing any research on the subject; busy busy busy. My new table saw arrives today; a Charnwood 8'' Cast Iron Table Saw. Not the biggest table saw in the world but...

The Sagulator is a cool little tool. Thanks. It says that as long as I don't exceed 20kg on a shelf the sag should not be noticible. I won't be loading anywhere near that. 72 cm of paperbacks is probably less than 5 kg.

I'm also building set of bookshelves and was planning to use 15mm thick timber for the shelves. Your comment gives me pause for thought. The carcass of my unit (1640mm high by 770mm wide and 180mm deep) will be made from an old ikea table (so, machined solid pine). I have milled the carcass...

pgrbff is right, this is pretty normal for Europe. Europeans have been required to show proof of ID for all sorts of things for decades. When I lived in the Netherlands, I had to show proof of identity (passport) in order to deposit a few euros IN to my account, let alone taking it out. I can...

I attended a family Christening yesterday at a lovely old church. There were four Yew trees that I could see. Without wanting to be too controversial; it is always interesting to see how early Christianity assimilated pagan beliefs (no relation to the Borg, I'm sure!). The tradition of planting...

It's not surprising that Yew holds a special place in mythology. It is has some interesting properties. It's toxicity, it's slow growth, it's regenerative abilities, it's very high elasticity (great for long bows), it's gnarly shape, it's fruit are almost like angiosperms, but not quite, it's...

I saw this thread recently and as I have just acquired some newly felled Yew from a local tree surgeon, I thought I would fish around for any useful tips and pointers. I got two logs around a meter long from a single stem. I cut each piece in to two so I could handle them more easily. I'm going...

It's likely that your bought dowels won't be either perfectly round or perfectly the quoted size. I recently bought some 10mm dowel to use as pegs in an 18mm thick plywood board. I drilled holes with a 10 mm drill bit. I measured the dowels and they were approximately 10.3 to 10.5 mm in diameter...

Ha ha. Sounds like a plan to me!

In the end the best way to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and hopefully maintain this wonderfully stable climate we've enjoyed for the past 10000 years is to stop burning fossil fuels. Planting more trees so that we can utilise the energy they capture from the sun in the...

Sorry, WoodchipWilbur, but this is a common misconception. Burning wood does not add more carbon to the air than the tree took out whilst growing. So burning wood is a carbon neutral process. If the sawdust/shavings/wood was not burnt but allowed to decay then eventually the carbon would enter...