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... actually, you didn't! I think you meant acetic acid. The sort of stuff you get in vinegar. An ascetic is someone "characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence". I am sure that applies to you too - but I don't think it will mark the bottom of a...

I've just had laminate flooring put down. Don't know how well it will work - but I have cut pads from the left-over underlay (thick shiny plastic top surface ofer a 2mm hard foam substrate). 2-sided carpet tape on the foam side - and the furniture glides beautifully on the laminate.

Interesting turn of phrase! Looks like the main piece of work is in those rather splendid legs - I might have said, "All from Euro oak, apart from the top which is English oak"! But a nice table, nevertheless.

Alea jacta est... I've looked around - and thought hard... I understand fully the advice that an air-driven gun is much more reliable and damages the wood less and may cost £20 in an uninflated world. The help and advice on here has been really useful. Even if you don't follow all of the...

... and where do you find a £20 Silverline 18g nailer? All I have found is twice that price...

Good to know that you're up to speed on that! I used to earn a meagre crust, making church furnishings. (It was my proud boast that I had items I'd made on every continent - including an altar set for the British Antarctic Survey.) I was constantly staggered by the almost total ignorance...

Thanks for all the wise words, folk... For the time being, I'm going along the good Lancashire advice from JobandKnock. I already have a pin pusher/rampin so that involves no expense. This, then, represents anything up to about 300 quid that I have not spent. That, therefore, is 300 quid...

Joke/nojoke! That's where I started. Having tried to drive a few brads with mine, I gave up! But perhaps I need to get some better brads. Save a shedload of £££

... So do I take it that your nailers/staplers/small nailers are not electric? If air-driven, can I justify getting a compressor by giving it lots of other work to do? (It looks like a compressor+nailer/stapler/small nailer isn't a lot different in cost from one of the more decent-looking...

A more pertinent problem is the regulation imposed by the church. It's essential if this is a Church of England Church that the DAC is consulted - but as well as the law, they can be really helpful! If the church hasn't already done it, then you can. Probably [email protected] if the...

Today, I have been making some plywood trunking. Today, I have been thinking, "Oh! If I only had a little nail gun!" I am a geriatric - taking a lifetime (well - perhaps 65 years; my dad started me when I was about 7) of woodworking with me into old age, dotage and beyond. A lot of...

If this is a C of E church clock, then you would be well advised to talk to the appropriate DAC (Diocesan Advice Committee). The work that you are proposing comes under Faculty Jurisdiction - ie the church must apply for "planning permission" to do this. That is down to the parish to do - the...

I know this thread goes back a long way but I've only just arrived... You say you "fitted an inline blower to the end of the 4" pipe". Which end? ;) At the far end, it's sucking in a lot of air and, presumably, dropping the suction at the machine (saw, planer etc). At the near end (to the...