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    Extra wide domino morticing

    I have been making extra wide Dominos in the last couple of days. I got talked into making a laundry chest for a confined space - 320mm square and decided to use 8mm thick x 47mm wide slats Dominoed into 14mm thick top and bottom frames to maximise internal space. The standard 4mm Dominos are...
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    Which new chisels?

    I'm sure that PMV11 is deliberately meaning less so that LV don't have to reveal which particular alloy it is for commercial reasons. I have always taken PMV11 to represent Powdered Metal 7, rather as WD40 is the 40th Water Dispresant that NASA (or whoever it was) tested. Jim
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    Abranet: does it produce a less 'polished' sanded finish..?

    I do think Gerard and Lons are right. I have heard people say that Abranet seems to cut a grade coarser than other abrasives but I think this is another facet of the same point - an abrasive that is semi-clogged other than at the very beginning of use may seem to cut finer and that needs to be...
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    Which new chisels?

    It's all about the steel and what you want to do with it. If you are doing timber framing in green oak you will want something that is resistant and preferably doesn't rust in the blink of an eye, but the ultimate edge will be less important, and for this modern tool steels are excellent. If...
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    Plywood and ball bearing music machine

    This is worth a look for its sheer bravado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q Jim
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    What tool did you buy today?

    Very sensible, proper adjustment provision aside, why would you want to mess about with a brand new machine that should have been right in the first place? You wouldn't do that with any other consumer product. I suppose it started with crappily made Stanley and Record planes back in the 60s...
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    What tool did you buy today?

    One of those stainless steel window squeegees from Screwfix, about a tenner. Sometimes you need to earn a few brownie points! Jim
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    Pick Yer Brains on Chairs... Please.

    I agree with Richard. I'm making four of these chairs - all slightly different. There are te joints in the back alone and all have loose tenons. Dominos except for the rear seat rail where the mortices are routed. There are no straight lines anywhereandd the joints are at various angles...
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    Chainsaw oil

    That's exactly what I thought. I think my confusion was caused by some rather loose terminology earlier in the thread. Many years ago I bought a bottle of chain oil on the recommendation of the late lamented Jim Kingshott, which he said was infinitely better for keeping rust off tools than the...
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    Chainsaw oil

    I know nothing about chainsaws but is there, or should there be, a distinction here between chain oil i.e used just to lube the chain and two stroke oil for the engine? Jim
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    UK woodworking mags

    D_W, What you say confirms my view tthat US tastes are quite different from those in Europe and FWW is clearly doing the right commercial thing in catering for local taste. As woodworkers, what is important to us is that we get satisfaction from what we do and that clearly involves matters of...
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    UK woodworking mags

    I have every issue of Home Furniture and they still bear examination. Unlike FWW this magazine was forward looking in terms of design. That it didn't survive beyond about 15 telld you all you need to know about the tastes of the average US woodworker. I once commented to this effect on a US...
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    UK woodworking mags

    I may have spent my life writing but I've never claimed to be a good typist! Dearly beloved is happy to proof read articles but I don't fancy my chances of persuading her to do it for forum posts :D Jim
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    UK woodworking mags

    I agree with you that F&C is variable and I am sure that the pay rate is an issue in attracting good quality regular contributors. As an occasional contributor for many years (I go back to Colin Eden Eadon's days as editor) I can only say that I don't really do it for the money, although I...
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    Lie Nielsen small spokeshave

    Some years ago I bought a set of the Woodjoy shaves from Classic Hand Tools. I hardly use the highly compassed metal bodied one but the flat and mildly compassed wooden ones (with brass soles) are wonderful. They use four little recessed Allen screws, two each side, to adjust the blade in a...
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    LED tubbes as replacement for fluorescent tubes

    Thank you everyone, that is most illuminating :) Phil, Do you recall the make of your repacement tubes and where you got them from? The apparent brightness difference seeems a bit of a contradiction given theat the stated light output of LED tubes is somewhat lower than fluorescents but may...
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    LED tubbes as replacement for fluorescent tubes

    I have daylight fluorescent tubes in my workshop and like them a lot but I have recently had contact problems on them and trouble getting them started when the workshop is really cold so am considering LED fluorescent replacement tubes which appear to offer similar light qualities (very wide...
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    Sycamore to Oak

    Good advice from Custard, but you really need to educate her on the beauty of sycamore (that's a lovely slab you have there) and how drab uniformity is not necessarily a good thing. Perhaps she could be pursuaded to give it a try on the basis that the decision can be revisited if she still...
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    Workshop lighting

    I have daylight fluorescent tubes and like them a lot but I have recently had contact problems on them and trouble getting them started when the workshop is really cold so am considering LED fluorescent replacement tubes which appear to offer similar light qualities but use less power and don't...
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    Look what I found!

    I'm no fan of Rutlands bit I think this one is actually quite interesting. Looking at what is said in the five star reviews they clearly don't relate to what anyone would, in absolute terms, consider to be a five star product. However, for £20 a new No4 that will, with a small amount of work...
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