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I in no way meant to imply that you were ignorant of condiitions in other parts of the country but it distance and a different environment can dull perceptions. We are all different and will attach different weights to factors. We disagree and that is part of life. One thing I m sure we do...

Well said Deema. It is easy to say such things from leafy Tunbridge Wells, but many of these jobs are in places where there is no alternative. The jobs are very low paid, usually zero hours and offer no security and companies like Amazon exploit this extreme power imbalance. I fully respect...

What many of these posts fail to recognise is that the power of vast multinationals make them almost impossible to control, however immorally they behave. Call me naive if you like but I believe morals really do matter in business, it's not just the tax, it's the way they use their power to...

Sadly, judging by the response, it looks like Matroberts and Phil.P's toungue in cheek responses may be an all too true represenatation of reality. I had thought it might be possible to build a pretty comprehensive picture of who are the good guys and who are the bad, in something I think is...

Good to see a magazine having the guts to offend advertisers by writing about the disgraceful quality of far too many manuals for woodworking power tools and machinery and to name some names. The August issue of Furniture & Cabinetmaking has an excellent article by Geoffrey Laycock. He has a...

You could have saved yourself abaout 75 euros by buying one of the Irwin Weldtec blades. A friend who has used them extensively and also visited Irwin's new state of the art factory in Italy reckons they are superb and perform way beyond their price point. Jim

Oxalic acid will remove the stain but I agree with Woodmonkey, plain it off when it has dried. Jim

When my Dad was a lad in the 1920's and on his way to school in his hley plimsolls he was stopped by an elderlty gent who took him off and bought him a pair of "propershoes. Sadly, he would probably now get arrested for child abduction with intent to do god knows what. Jim

Fascinating stuff, Mark. I don't have the space for any of this stuff not to mention the absence of three phase power but always enjoy your threads. I'm a fairly regular visitor to http://www.barnsley-furniture.co.uk/ and they have over the years replaced most of there machines with modern...

Don't know anything about him but I started going on five day courses at West Dean 17 years ago and am still going and still learning new things. I learn less now but in the early years I learnt huge amounts in a few days. Also, don't discount what you learn from other students and the value...

I think I would have just removed the dirt and rust using electrolysis so as to maintain some patina reflecting the age of the tool, but too late now. Given where you are now, what you do from here must be entirely a matter of your personal taste. Jim

I've done quite a bit of steam bending and your green oak is ideal. Although it adds time to the process I would go with a steam bent lamination of just two plies. That way you will get much better grain continuity than with multiple laminates and much less springback than with solid steam...

I've only been to the HQ shop at Axminster and to Basingstoke. Both are great but Axminster is bigger and better (two floors) as you might expect. Never left either without spending lots! Jim

Interesting. I would be very interested to know how you get on when you get around to it. Jim

It's a brush motor. Jim

I recently bought a Makita mitre saw and I am generally very happy with it. It needed adjustment to to bring both angle settings into 90 deg but that may be down to it being a display model at Axminster. However, there are two things about it that I hate The first iis how useless the...

Carrried on making a dust collection box for my recently acquired Makita LS 1040 mitre saw. I bought this one rather than the sliding variety because I haven't got the workbench width for the latter and it will cover 95% of my needs. Trouble is, it seems that dust collection is total rubbish...

They are also very good at removing the ends of fingers, although not neatly as I have proved to my satisfaction - three of them (fingers, not routers). Some years later I still llack normal sensitivity in my left index finger which is four or five mm shorter than it used to be. I've also had...

Hi Michelle, Japanese chisels are, by definition not all that cheap, unless you buy the non-laminated variety which are really just like a western chisel with a Japanese style handle, which rather defeats the point. I have been using these Ioroi chisels...

Those plastic handles are designed for site carpenters who wouldn't know a mallet if it hit them, a hammer will be fine. Jim