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Hello, i'm after some general design-y inspiration. I saw a mention of Hank Gilpin a while ago and have been looking through his website, and Custard's mention of modern designers using native timbers in "How to By Hardwoods"... Found it all quite inspiring and want to see more, I guess I should...

Ive had some great success with a router sled, and not even a very well made one! They are particularly great because you can make the tracks to fit over any size you want, from very long to very tall, and create perfect planed surfaces, especially useful across difficult grain, end grain and...

draw knife would be even speedier...

Thanks Mike, more wisdom and much appreciated. Much psychology involved, going to practice my poker face. So far the easiest thing seems to be to emphasise the higher end of the likely cost of a given design, and overestimate the labour, because I am a bit of an optimist I suppose, sure it wont...

Thanks Mike, more wisdom and much appreciated. Much psychology involved, going to practice my poker face. So far the easiest thing seems to be to emphasise the higher end of the likely cost of a given design, and overestimate the labour, because I am a bit of an optimist I suppose, sure it wont...

Really great to hear everyones thoughts. Think I will try and be stricter in future on getting decisions made before starting and more firmly setting final designs. I appreciate that it never stops being a juggling act to some degree... Cowfoot, youve hit the nail on the head there, so far most...

Ive had a few jobs recently which have been delayed and occassionally frustrated by indecision and slow responses on questions of design and component or material choices etc. I was wondering about everyone else's experiences and advice with regards to dealing with clients throughout a project...

scathing reviews are always so much fun to read, whether you agree or not...

Really informative for the self taught (teaching) like me, thanks! On the subject of CITES and timber scarcity generally, there's a business (or businesses) to be had making better use of what people grow in their back gardens. I recently hired a guy in London to cut down an enormous bit of...

Ive just returned from a bit of a roadtrip around france and the pyrenees, and I was treasure hunting along the way. One particular thing I got at a french carboot sale was a multi-angled set square, all metal, the only similar thing I can find is this...

Hello, I too have recently bought an old 619 and would love a copy of the manuals as mine needs some serious tuning up. My email is fentonfielder at gmail . com Big thanks Also would love to get my hands on extensions and sliding table, in the unlikely case anyone has a spare set knocking around!

You could get creative with your offcuts, join them into a hefty avant garde outdoor bench maybe, or some other solid furniture. Get arty, i enjoy trying to design things within the limitations of offcuts and found materials...

Thanks all, I had considered solder too but as its the surface of a coffee table sort of thing I think it would be too soft. Think what I have is a bit deep in places for the CA approach. Droogs I think your suggestion makes the most sense for the size and shape of what I need to fill, gonna...

Yeah thats what it has looked like in videos, dull at best, im after shine. so was that just pure dry powder and then CA on top, no mixing?

Hello I need to fill a long, meandering and quite 'dynamic' recess that goes across a surface im working on. I'd like to inlay it with metal ideally, it will need to be a filling and sanding back sort of thing rather than a casting and cutting in sort of thing because of the shapes involved...

Thanks for the advice, will do!

So has anyone much to say on whether its optomistic to be carving a bowl into end grain, probably with a curved adze and then gouges? They are deeper than i remembered actually, the bowl piece, is maybe 8 inches deep, and the other only slightly less though it will need more milling thanks for...

Hi Yew Guys Im just embarking on a personal project, I spotted a few big slices of yew at my friends house, about 5/600mm across in places, one maybe 5 inches deep and one 4, with nice contours. Only reason they hadn't been burnt yet was that noone could be bothered to try and split them. So i...

No worries at all, i appreciate it was extra curricular in the first place... Realistically I wont get around to anything for a month or two now so ill scour the web closer to the time thanks anyway!

i might be a bit late to the party but your photos arent showing up sunnybob, id be very much interested to see them as im also hoping to achieve something to the same end!