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Hi Hippo I have been having a sleepless night thinking about your project and wondering how best to advise you and I keep thinking of the African workshops I have been in. For some reason my wife thinks it is sad when on holiday I hear a woodworking machine running and wander in to see what they...

Starting a workshop is such a wonderful thing to do to help the people in Angola. I wish you every success. 20K sounds a lot but it is easy to spend that much on a workshop and still not have what you need so take your time. Most shops buy second hand to begin with and a lot of joinery...

Working in and running workshops for most of my working life before I retired I can only say you are very wise to want some tuition before you use a spindle, it is a machine that takes no prisoners if it goes wrong. Few amateur woodworkers will have the experience to help you and many...

I am retired and have enough income to enjoy my woodworking without having to sell the toys and other wooden things I make to cover my costs and time, instead I give them to charities who sell them to raise money. My satisfaction is seeing the joy on a child's face, and parents, when they handle...

It has been sold already but thank you for putting it up

Thank you for the heads up, I live near to Abingdon, need a planer have emailed the seller.

I think that every person who has a tool or machine supplied that requires the new owner "fettle" adjust, take it apart to insert shims etc. has every right to ring up the supplier and ask for it to be collected and have a new item supplied that has had a pre delivery check. If customers...

I have a "man cave" (shed) 48 square feet and make toys, we tell the grand chidren I am Father Christmas helper

Luna 12 inch blade, 30 years old and still working well

I enjoy the forum and the threads but this is so OTT

HEPA filters are "high efficiency particle arrest" and are what are used in asbestos removal air lock filtration systems and laboratory air lock set ups. If they are used in a woodworking workshop the filters are so fine they would be clogged up within minuets. A company might be using the word...

I would like to put some pictures up of my workshop but can't load them!

The have been using a spiral block/hammer/pt for about a year and an very pleased, started with a kitty 30 years ago, then a SCM with a tersa block that was very good, have a Vinig four sider and needed a large planer for wide boards, because the cutters cut in sequence you can feed the word...

Hi Matt I will cut the timber and post tomorrow evening, can you let me have an address to post to? You could pay by sending me the cost of postage in 1st class stamps, they are always useful. Stuart

I have some substantial lumps of English box, let me know the size of the section you need and I will post to you, just send me the cost of postage when you get it

We ran our single phase Sedgewick planer on a 16 amp supply in our old workshop but needed to put a 20amp breaker in when we moved to our new workshop as it would trip the breaker on startup. Bought the 20 amp breaker at Screwfix and had to wait a day as it was not a stock item Stuart