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Matt Estlea made a "Rolls Royce" shooting board, very fancy! I will get round to making one of these someday ...

Thanks guy for your input. Perhaps I should have qualified my initial arguement with the statement of : new cheap power tools. I do have many modestly priced hand tools in my workshop that are perfectly adequate for the job. It's just my experience with power kit that I find frustrating. Over...

OK, my opinion may be wrong but I am intrigued as to why you think that. Please persuade me why I am incorrect in my assumption. What's your argument against it?

Second post here, just my thoughts about tools. I retired from my IT consultancy job a few years ago and decided, as a reasonably competent carpenter (all hand tools, as taught to use by my father), to try my hand at raising my game. So, bought myself a sliding mitre saw, a table saw, a router...

Toolstation are good. I've been using them over the last 12 months for supplies when doing up a garage workshop for a local company. I'm fortunate, Screwfix and Toolstation branches nearest me are practically on top of each other. So I always compare products and prices before going out to buy...

Thanks for the link Phil. I have a friend just around the corner who has a small machine workshop. He made me one of these on his lathe. It cost me a couple of cans of beer :D

The inaccuracies were caused by A: a warped base plate moulded out of cheap thermoplastic not a proper decent thickness of phenolic compound. This meant that the router would never sit perpendicular to the work surface thus causing the rotational axis of the bit to not be at 90 degrees to the...

Hi all, new to the forum and need some advice. I have purchased a premium dovetail jig from Rutlands, nice bit of kit. Also bought their 1/2" precision router to use on the jig. The router is absolute rubbish and will be going back for a refund. It's a tacky Chinese re-badged import that for...