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Which ever jig you go for, my advice is that that you get one that can be clamped down, and secondly, that you make sure the drill bit you're using is running true in the drill. The slightlest wobble will make the hand held jigs almost impossible to get accurate.

Thanks for that link, I'll use that instead, just to be safe. I've order a pack of 3, Ceramic, 36grit. Will report back :)

I'm in Beckrow. I'm happy to give you one from the pack of 3 (£7), but probably not worth the drive to get here :D

I have both the Tree and the individual wheels from Chestnut products. I prefer to use the individual wheels myself, as it gives you more room to work.

I have a few tools where I want to completely regrind the profile, removing lots of material. For example turning an old Skew into a round nose negative rake scraper. In the past I just used the Ceramic 60grit belt, but it takes forever! ... so I did a little searching to see if I could find an...

I've said it before. Plastics should not have even entered production until we had a solution for how to deal with the waste. If not for long lasting products (which is a joke by todays standards), but most certainly for products that are bought and thrown away daily (food wrapping etc). It's...

It infuriates me that the people with the most control in dealing with the matter won't .. because it will affect their profit margins. Do they not have children? grand children? ... can't they see that it doesn't matter how much profit they make now if it will adversly affect the lives of...

Thanks. I'll be the first to admit that I have a habit of complicating things that don't need complicating. :D

So what I probably didn't explain very well is that the lid does not follow the same contour as the base. There is a roundover on the lip of the base. I made a mistake on the one below, the lid is supposed to sit below the rim. But you get the idea. Trying to shape it whilst jam chucked in the...

Thats a good point! :)

Thank you for the suggestions guys. I shall give them a go! I'm not sure I understand the idea witht he colejaws though? the rubber stoppers are always going to be in the way?

I like to make small boxes like the one shown in Figure A. Note, the finial is inserted afterwards, so can be ignored for this discussion. But the the problem I always have, and haven't found a good solution for, is holding the lid so I can do a continuous cut and finish of one entire surface...

Thanks for the replies. So I didn't actually use a marking gauge at all. I thicknessed the shelves down to 18mm. I then used a ruler to lay out one horizontal side of each mortise on the first rail. I then used a 18mm spacer to draw the other horizontal side of the mortise. I then used my T...

I am currently making some japanese inspired shelves. There are 5 shelves and then a top and bottom piece. Each side has two rails, where each shelf has two long tenons that go through the rails. I started this project out by first creating the side rails. I milled the timber to size and...

As I mentioned in the first post, I don't have an issue with the barrel collapsing when there is a block. It was collapsing in normal use.

I appricate that 100mm would be better, but my Thicknesser (Triton) and Planer (Triton) are both only 55mm.

Its not so much how long it takes to empty the Cam Vac, more the unpleasant fine dust. Emptying the Cyclone/Thien barrel is simply a matter of pouring it in to my garden waste bin (making sure it's only thicknesser shavings and nothing else). Where as with the cam vac, I need to get it into a...

If I fill the barrel with debris, and then turn on the extractor, after a few seconds all the debris gets sucked up into the extractor. One thing to note though, is that I am using a rather small barrel. I think it's 25 litres. I suppose a larger barrel would suffer the same issue when it's...

Has anyone had any luck making a Thien Baffle type system for a Cam Vac (Twin Motor)? I've been experimenting with something like this : With only one motor enabled, it kind of works, but I want the extra power of two motors as I want to use it with my thicknesser. With two motors enabled, I...

Yeah ... I'll see what Axminster will do about it. I really don't want to have to package it up and return it ... In practise though, I'm not sure how much of an issue it is actually going to be as I plan on making a sacrificial fence anyway, so could easily pack it out a bit. It's just one of...