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Tell me about it!! I have the equivalent of four average garages as outhouses / workshops plus the loft. Have great difficulty throwing anything away. I am trying to reform :D For example, yesterday I found a bucket full of springs from an old fashioned bed, I bet they have been in the back...

Yeah that is my dilemma, I have two and due to needing to downsize they have to go, but I hate the idea of destroying someone’s work.

I am thinking of the ones that look like a suitcase with hinged lid. Does anyone use these anymore? Why were they once so common ? I guess they were an apprentice piece

I knew I could rely on you!! Please book a week's holiday sometime in May :D

I had guessed as much. I will just use it as hardcore and wackerer it down

I am getting very close to buying a bungalow that will require a fair amount of work before we can move in. Just at the thinking stage. I plan a decent workshop, for that I will lay a concrete raft. The front of the property has been completely covered in once white stone chip pings. These are...

Wow! No pleasing some folk PS I will be shortly posting FTAGH a bunch of good quality panel saws When I have dug them out of the loft Collection only from Loughborough (twinned with Royston Vasey) so only of interest to local people ...... There will be NO photos!!

I wonder if it has a blue plaque now?

You would be no wiser.

FTAGH I have found this in my garage, no idea where I acquired it. Assumed it was a rusty Yankee but then realised the build quality was better. Spares or repair only, so it might suit someone who has one already. Collect from Loughborough, or maybe David Stanley auction next week.

I use a cleaned out one of these. No air in glue bottle. https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/gr ... lsrc=aw.ds

For a moment, I thought you were going to come out as a pansexual, Phil

I agree! I would do it like that. The bench is joinery. However the saw the op proposes would be a good, albeit slower, option and a way of gaining experience and muscle memory. Save nice dovetail saws for fine work.

That will do as a first saw. Handle looks uncomfortableThough. I would go for the longer one.

My most valuable tools are those that were my Dads. I am careful to use these properly as I am sure he is looking over my shoulder. Followed by the rusty junk I have fettled so it works like new.

My mobile phone is a cast off of my sons. I put ten quids worth of pay as you go on it in March , still have credit left.

I have seen and caressed Skelton saws on a few occasions and it is a thing of beauty and craftsmanship. At the end of the day it just saws like any other, it might give you a added bit of satisfaction in using and owning it, but it's not unlike the latest wiz bang mobile phone.

I ordered this last week. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07 ... UTF8&psc=1 Has arrived, looks ok.

Cook for near four hours, rest for an hour and then chuck in the bin! If turkey was remotely nice, why don't we eat it all year round, as it is very cheap meat. Tomorrow I will be mainly eating pigs in blankets and the all Brussels and parsnips no one else will touch.

The Charnwood is decent value for money. And yes they will help out if you have issues. If you do get it, I have a few changes I made to mine over the first year that have made it a bit easier to use and am happy to pass them along.