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I wouldn't want to disappoint you, Custard. I have no picture but at least some the old Inca bandsaws cut from the right, but I have never heard of another. :D I seem to remember that they were well thought of in their time. Jim

Not for me either. Wood and stainless or bronze work well together but I just don't find the combination of wood and aluminium sympathetic. I had a mooch around David Linley's showroom a few years ago and there was lots of stuff with hideous aluminium stringing. Jim

Interesting stuff. What it does mean, of course, is that at the bottom of the market there must still be plenty of nice timber that can be recycled into something more contemporary. Jim

I have certainly heard of urea formaldehyde glues like Cascamite being used with a hot press. Don't have one myself but I'm sure an internet search should throw up some information. Jim

I agree about the bandsaw and Domino, to which I would add my planer/thicknesser. Getting any of these would make a big difference for almost anyone. At a more personal level, my current furniture design direction involves lots of organic curves and tapers which means a lot of work with...

My decorator, who paints our house every four years or so, paints our previously faded brown plastic gutters with traditional oil bsased Dulux gloss. He tells me the last thing you want is to undercoat it as undercoat hardens while gloss remains flexible. It must be at least ten years since it...

It is. Jim

Well done Alan, it's nice toget published. I have spent my life working with the written word (as opposed to wood) and writing for magazines is a good way of continuing something I have always enjoyed. Although the money is useful the effective hourly rate is so low that I certainly wouldn't...

Whatever turns you on! :lol:

There is a huge Holm oak in the Bishop's Palace Garden in Chichester where the city wall abuts Avenue de Chartres at its western end. It's a magnificent sight and it always amazes me that it hasn't gone over and taken the wall with it, given that the base of its trunk must be 15 feet above...

Just too late, but this may be useful for other readers of this thread. You should have considered the Swedish Moretens H410. It saves a mountain of time over the years because there is no process of any kind for switching between planing and thicknessing. Quite apart from this saving, you...

A bit late, but you don't need to use needles, plastic syringes are available from craft shops and you can trim them to whatever size opening you want. I have used these very successfully with Cascamite. Jim

Oh dear. Presumably you don't use him any more. Jim

Interesting that you use your 5 1/2, which i don't have, for something that chunky I use my very heavy A1 jointer and seem to avoid the problem. Jim

Amen. Jim

Do not be discouraged Derek, you provide a valuable service to those of us who like tools and are lucky enough to be able to shell out for top quality specialist tools because we happen to like them and enjoy using them. Incidentally, this applies also to professionals; it is not just affluent...

Youv'e probably seen this http://www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk/wooden_gutters.htm Jim

Mark, As with all your restorations, this is absolutely stunning. So much more beautiful than the modern pressed steel stuff which is undoubtedly effective, but will anyone want to restore it in 50 or 60 years time, I doubt it. Are there any basic types of Wadkin kit that you haven't yet...

I use it quite a lot, mainly for sticking templates to workpieces, so one of the prime requirements as a far as I am concerned is that it should not be too difficult to remove the adhesive layer from the work. For me, this is far more important than ultimate strength or permanence. I had a...

Completely agree with you, Chris. The only thing that I would add is that the QS blade takes a better, longer lasting edge than any of the A2 blades that I have tried. Jim