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Do you have basic tools and space to work at home? I think I would try stuff on your own to maximise the training time. You hardly want to waste the 15 hours on elementary things you could learn on your own. Then look for part time experience post your short course.

Using what you already have, make yourself a pair of trestles. The experience will give you all you need to make the kitchen table bench. If you have a workshop then a solid bench is pretty much an essential.

I have exactly the same lathe. I replaced the belt a few years ago but bought two. I have just had a look at the spare,it is marked 0-560. In the notes I wrote on the instruction manual I wrote this number but added to it, reads 0-560-08. Cannot remember why. Edit: found the receipt and here...

Something I have often wondered about.........and seeing as its nearly spring. Can you consume the saffron from bog standard garden crocuses?

Other than commenting that the DG might not cure the condensation problems, there is not much you can do. You have done the work you are contracted to do and I think you need to be alert to her blaming you for trying to hike the bill.

Light weight :wink: God knows how many I have. And I doubt I bought any of them. It’s one of those things that every house hold has and I think most of mine are inherited from various relatives over my lifetime. Both of my sons must have 3or4 that I have passed on as well(already). My...

My kids found a metal block plane difficult but I found them a small woody that they could get their hand at the rear. You can get wood blades for junior hacksaws. .

Thanks Although I have been wood working for a long time,other than sheet, I have not bought any wood for a long while, as I have a source of scrap. Mostly “mahogany” type joinery.

Elementary question: What are the final dimensions for two by one? All my wood is resawn recycled stuff so I have nothing to compare with. I am making some jigs ready to use on bought in PAR

The moderators might be able to help you get your old id back.

Might not be big enough, but I have made knife blades out of jigsaw blades

Deema, I like that v cut edge idea, Assume it’s done on a router table?

Strangely I was thinking the same yesterday. More, how some packaging has improved. We have recently bought a new toaster and also a vacuum cleaner. No polystyrene, virtually no plastic bags, just cheap moulded cardboard that looks a bit like thick paper mache. There was no staples nor tape so...

I have not bought a magazine since Nick Gibbs had to close British woodwork. I kept every edition and sometimes browse for ideas. I like reading from paper so tend to spend magazine money on second hand books . The art of woodworking series are good and can be had from Amazon for around £3...

The ones I have are bigger and thus less handy. What I really need is for Paul Sellers to do one up, then I could make a fortune :D

Yes Doug , except mine are slightly more muted colours

I got brownie points for chucking them in the recycle bin :D

I will dig them out of the loft dreckley

I am looking to buy a bungalow and am thinking about how I will accommodate a workshop. One boundary is a Victorian cemetery and another is bottom of a school playing field. So I don’t want to alert the council to what I plan. Thereafter I will risk them not noticing. I want to put the back of...

Anyone who wants to collect can have them!