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My parents and parents in law were just young enough not to serve overseas in the war. They all worked hard and were possibility the first generation of real working class folks to buy their own homes. When we bought our home although they were there for us they could not help us with the...

Hold off buying a spokeshave, I might have a spare. Edit,PM me your shopping list as I have lots of spare kit that needs to go before I move house later this year.

BB, The wood awaits. PM whenever you want Anytime should be OK as I am retired, so can fit around your shifts. You can prep the wood on my bandsaw so come with a plan in your head. What else is on your to do list? Do you have a bench hook?

If Loughborough is not too far away from wherever you are in Nottingham, l can give you some nice dry straight beech to make yourself a mallet.

Nowt wrong with recycling some ebony, I have a ugly busted statue that the charity shop could not shift waiting for the right job to come along.

Currently in Madeira. The main roads are marvellous, never seen so much tunnelling in my life. We did a short journey along the old routes took well over an hour, came on the rapido took ten minutes.

If it were me.... I would continue the brick work to match the original and then work from there with your design, maybe using oak. Somehow I would design out the flat roof and blend in with the slope, that way any oak would look part of the whole.

He lives in the midlands, (actually the southerly quarter of the U.K.) which happens to be north of where most of the U.K.’s narcissists live. For what it’s worth, I like your posts, and give consideration to what you say. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Mine veers towards Jacob’s...

As Phil says with a bit of luck someone here might be local and offer to help you. Amazed at the attitude of your AWGB branch and find it difficult to believe they are all a holes. Is there anyone from awgb reading in a position to rectify?

I asked the guy who owns my local Chinese takeaway if he had wuhan coronavirus. He replied " Only wot on menu"

All you need is a short length of square mild steel black, I used 30 mm. It’s easy to work and doesn’t need any hardening and tempering like an edged tool.

Now my windows 7 powered PC no longer has support, I am worried about this here virus in China.

The stuff is too dense to embed in epoxy isn’t it? Once you turn the tube won’t it be rather frail lengthwise You could forget a pen and make a bluddy big pencil :D Cracks in graphite are a nightmare :wink:

That would make a lovely tool cupboard. :D Agree with your sentiments, but brown furniture needs the right sort of house/room for it “to work “.

Does this help http://www.peterchild.co.uk/chucks/threads.htm

My dad had a radiogram, is it similar?

This is a seriously bad idea anywhere near expensive optics. Do you know any nurses? The wipe they use before jabs is IPA.

Steer clear of cash converters! Their prices are stupid!

Blimey That is a very good space in which to get going! Add 50 quids worth of hand tools and there is nothing stopping you.

Have a browse on this site for recommendations about tools. Also try to find the post where MikeG makes some trestles. This would be a good first project requiring few tools and cheap wood but producing something useful that should last a lifetime . The marking up and cutting will be an...