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There's a place in Wiveliscombe which someone in Devon mentioned in another post. Could give them a ring, may have a pick up point near you. Edwards Precision Saw Services Address: Ford Road - Wiveliscombe - Taunton - Somerset - TA4 2RE - Tel: 01984 624273 Fax:(01984) 623204

Whilst solid phenolic sheet has some advantages it is often not made to a precision thickness, so even if your piece is undistorted it may not be actually flat, a big piece maybe 30 thou variance (almost 1mm) MDF by contrast, about 5thou so if surface factory laminated in a press may start...

drill driver: drills holes (small in metal) in wood and drives screws combi drill: as above, but with what used to be called hammer action as an option; whole drill vibrates so tc bit will go through aggregate, if it's up to 6-8mm dia. impact driver: crossover from motor trade, where a big air...

Didn't someone post that Alan Peters was seriously ill? If so, and he was revising it for Stobarts, that may be the expalnation?

Sis sent me a set of Jim K's DVDs from Foxchappel US last year, about 19$ each I think they were.

Mine's a LN, but the LV is more versatile? The LN has a very thick blade which resists chatter, but has to be sharpened with a slight crown to avoid the edge making ridges. The LV has a thin blade and a screw to bow it into a curve, so you can sharpen it straight. If you need a heavier blade LV...

Re my earlier post regarding the flexing of standard blades, thicker blades are stiffer, double the thickness=8x stiffer, but the bevel is now twice as long, so mounted in a plane, 8/2=4 times stiffer. For a really stiff blade, think Japan! The 2 piece cap iron was designed specifically to...

For those hard up, beg buy or borrow a copy of Ian Kirby's book "Sharpening with waterstones" as more than half is taken up with dry grinding stuff, including how to knock up an excellent toolrest and all the jigs (wood and bolts, easy stuff) which give tormek style results. You do need a half...

Depends on what you want to do. The little rat just as good as the big one for cutting joints for drawers, boxes etc., and tenons, just a bit limited on size of timber for morticeing (you could make a farm gate on the 900), but you really need the width of a 900 for carcass dovetails, say.

If you don't mind a non-translucent material, whilst exploring your Koi carp suppliers premises for pipe, ask about butyl pond liner (black synthetic butyl rubber). Agricultural merchants may be able to help with really heavy butyl if you need it later, as it is used to line farm irrigation...

True, but older heads like mine will have grown up with unfused 15A plugs, with the sockets fed by a ring main, and protected with a 30A bit of fuse wire. At the introduction, there were a lot of 'stupid safety nonsense' grumbles about the 13A fused plug system. Whilst not tickety boo, putting...

What a bummer. Thanks for the best advice and blades ever. Not much left to say, will keep a keen eye open for the Phoenix. Very best wishes for the future.

Wheels are fired like bricks, and can distort in the firing, so no wheel is likely to have zero run out. Side to side wobble due to the wheel itself is something you have to live with. Dressing removes most of the vibration and should be repeated as the wheel glazes over from use. LV sells a...

It seemed to me that Ax prices began to creep up when they got themselves a marketing manager. He seems to have introduced a regime of somewhat higher prices over the past few catalogues, with occasional special offer reductions in the Lidl style bargains flyer they began to mail out soon after...

As well as running slower the motor will run hotter, as 60 Hz motors have less metal in the electromagnetic bits and pieces. This may not be a problem if the machine is lightly loaded and/or only used at full load for brief spells. Motor casings should not generally get hotter that 100 deg C or...

I had some cool blocks from LV, quite effective, especially for completely surrounding very narrow blades. No better than standard guide blocks though. Something hard and fine grained soaked in rapeseed oil works just as well; the veg oil is used as an industrial lubricant as well as frying, and...

Another vote for the Nilfisk Alto 360-21; this was £160 at the last Ax show. Has standard ~50mm "hole" for hose, 3M of 27mm supplied. This is antistatic and earthed. Hose end fittting identical to Festool. Plastic washable filter is still original. Bypass motor so can't overheat. Is compatible...

FW recently carried a review of the "new" riving knife seen at the big US summer trade show, explaining how it prevents kickback when timber closes in on the blade as it's cut. All the diagrams showed the usual US full-table-width fence in place for the rip cut. Apparently US timber never moves...

Good idea if you keep a dedicated router bolted in the table. It also tucks under larger diameter bits that a straight one won't. I made one from one of the freebie single ended spanners supplied by DW, bent by heating to red heat + hammer and vice. Re tempering not needed as load on large...

During the course of discussion there seems to have been some misunderstanding of my use of the term "back bevel". This is usually seen on the top of a (bevel down) iron to increase the effective pitch from 45 deg to say 55 deg (10 deg backbevel). A backbevel on a bevel down iron will be...