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You certainly bagged yourseelf a bargain. I am sure there will be lots of people on here who would dispute the suggestion that Clifton steel is better than LN. I personally doubt that you would detect any significant difference. Personally, I would stick with what you have and invest the cash...

Isn't it bizarre how a thread can sometimes spring back into lihe after four years dormancy. Timber, It must have seemed a sriously good idea at the time! Jim

Just stumbled across this thread. A few years ago I had a holly tree taken down in the garden in the winter. I band sawe it into planks of varying thicknesses and put it into stick in my well ventilated workshop loft, having waxed the ends of the planks, and pretty much forgot about it. A...

I too am a big fan of Lightroom. It started out as a tool for organising photographs with a processing package added but now the processing side haas become much more sophisticated so it is an excellent all round tool. The Smart Collections function is brilliant and makes having separate daily...

I can really relate to this incident. I regard myself as pretty safety conscious but had my own event with a hand held router which resulted in my losing the ends of three fingers when they got draggeed into the cutter. No point in trying to relate it in detail but there are two important...

Thank you both for responding. Custard, I may well take you up on that when we have got over the ghastly bugs we seem to have picked up at Cressing. Good show though and nice to catch up with some old friends. Jim

I used to buy d/s tape from B&Q. It had a yellow backing and white plastic adhesive base. It held firmly but you could still peel it off relatively easily once it had served its purpose eg pattern routing. Can't find anything as good now. Any suggestions anyone? Jim

I hadn't been before but thought the absence of screaming routers and chop saws was a major plus. Thoroughly enjoyed it. As a compromise, maybe put the power tools at the far side of the field. Jim

I must say the breadboard ends are what cause me the most cocern. You could glue them for only the first inch or two at the front to maintain a smooth profile there and peg it through the tongue in the middle and back through slotted holes in the tongue to allow the movement which will...

Any branch of Brewers (professionlal decorating suppliers) or Jewson should have Sikkens products which are excellent. Brewers have branches in Leeds, York and Scarborough and Jewsson are well represented in N. Yorshire. Jim

On visiting a friend's house I noticed his splendid (albeit conventional) loo seat in quartersawn European oak. Having never seen one like it with fabulous medullary rays I asked him where he got it and, of course, he made it himself. I don't think you will have any problem with porosity...

The Bona finishes are brilliant. Water based so very little smell and extremely hard wearing, also widely used by professional floor finishers. Jim

Thanks, Alex, I'm sure I will. I bought it on good advice, but it is always nice to have it backed up. I did consider the CTM 26 for its higher dust collection rating, but when I investigated I discovered the filtration is identical. The only difference is a sensor and warning circuitry...

I had always felt that Festool practice must be illegal. Delighted to hear that something has finally been done about it. Jim

I have been thinking about buying one of these for a while but put off by the price of around £470. I enquired at Dictum thinking the Euro exchange rate might help but it would be a special order with them at E609 (£444) so not much of a saving. I thought I would just check out Axminster and...

Completely agree, Derek. However, in the end what is important is what works for you and what the individual is comfortable with. I'm certainly not in favour of ridiculing people just because the person posting happen to think their way is a waste of time. Jim

These makeshift solutions such as concrete slabs don't appeal to me because I can't see much point in flattening a stone with something that is not truly flat itself - it is ofcourse true that flatness only matters across the width of the stone - but most people will hollow a stone in both...

My sister bought me a Stanley No 4 for my 21st birthday in 1963. At that time I was naive enough to think that a plane should work out of the box apart from sharpening, which I did on an oilstone. Try as I might, whatever I did I could not get it to work. In the end, I concluded it must be my...

It's quite a bit bigger than a block plane and primarily intended for end grain, like the LN #9, hence the low angle. The shooting plane is mainly for long grain edges. Jim

Custard, I've sent you a PM. Jim