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My workshop is in east sussex and depending what projects Ive had on I sometimes have up to a few binbags of hardwood shavings, rather than dust. My neighbours on the yard where my workshop is sell mushroom grow kits for pearl oysters and exotic pink ones, so there are always test kits...

Another good suggestion thanks Andy Im surprised to hear that the axe weighs in so favourably for this! is that because i said 'posts' it suggests chunky external work? Maybe i should have said 'frame', for the doors I have in mind. Im fairly adept with an axe, from carving and spoons and...

Great thanks I will try a combination of these things. As its for indoors and wants to look as smart as possible, i might skip the axe for now, but drawknife is a good idea. Wish my bandsaw wasnt so useless(ly setup) or that might also do a good job.

Is there a clever way? I am attaching two posts to either side of an aperture for some doors to hang from, but the edges they are going on to are neither straight nor plumb, so I am hoping to adjust the posts to leave nice level parallel sides. Both are about 7 foot tall, and go from nothing...

A gooseneck scraper, that is...

So me mums moving out of her rented house tomorrow and theres a nasty gouge about a meter long in some of the parquet flooring that we think we or the last movers are responsible for. Be appreciated if anyone knows a trick to minimise the visual impact of the damage, i presume go at it with a...

Aha, I have bought bearings before and wondered whether these would be standard, but its some sort of doubled up arrangement that looks special, tried to get them apart but I had lost the will by this point and went for surrender instead. Ill take some pictures, be great if you could let me...

Novocaine, you were right, thanks A frustrating half an hour to find it out though. Put an awl about half an inch into the ball of my thumb trying to get one of the sprung washers out, ouch (hammer) and the replacement is 50 quid, double ouch

ok thanks guys i will take a look at said plate. ( i had already taken it apart and blown the insides clean but I may have missed this bit. when it hits the surface the pad has barely more than a feeble wobble to give, dont know if id call it 'still running', but you can hear the motor...

My metabo orbital has become feeble, runs fine with no load but loses all power when you place it down onto any work piece, unless you put it into 'turbo' and then it runs intermittently. I read around a bit and replaced the electronic control unit, the bit with the power dial. No better, bit...

I just bought a Disston to refurb at a car boot last weekend, on the strength of having seen threads like this. Seems in good nick, but the blade has a slight curve though, gentle across the length. Is that much of an issue, how would one properly and carefully go about setting it right?

Its pretty lightweight and actually not really strong enough for what im doing with it now, i was hoping for old slow growth pine, the brown fuzz its grown over the decades (century+?) looked exactly the same as on other old reclaimed structural pine ive bought, is that something that happens to...

so i shouldnt be too precious. seems like an awful lot of decent wood for the money.

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How do, im about to cut some stair stringers out of reclaimed joists from a local wood recycling project. Bought two deliciously hefty 4.3 metre lengths of 9" x 3" which came out of a fancy college in south London. I have planed a small section and they arent pine, which I assumed they would...

Ive just been given a log of freshly cut cherry, maybe a foot across, 5 foot long. Aside from sealing the ends, any recommendations on what I might do with it? Get it cut into boards at the mill? Not sure how cherry behaves or what its particularly good for other than turning, and I dont have a...

Appreciate all the advice everyone, feels like cheating getting all these pearls of wisdom for free. In terms of heating and ventilation, I'm going to have lots of windows and a double sliding patio door and a barn door, so i dont imagine itll be much of a problem in the summer. In winter I...

I was hoping you would find this thread... I will look up aluminum profiles, I had sort of discounted them because (I assume) they don't give much structural strength, but maybe a combination would work, some timber framing with ali and plastic in between. Part of me is now imagining an oak...

Good thinking, I will look into that as an option. With a domed roof, would one laminate ones curved rafters? I agree with you also Droogs that a domed roof looks nicer from the outside, but theres not a clear winner to me yet, there are many factors...

Nice to hear there is interest, ill try and do a thorough WIP and take lots of pictures. Im not exactly keen for the shed on wheels look either Marcros but its sort of unavoidable, i suppose you could call it a cabin on wheels? I had considered going down the route of repurposing an existing...