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I'm fond of Johnstons 2 pack Epoxy floor paint, from Leyland trade Decorator's Centres (they bought out Johnstons) You get trade when paying cash. Very, very, hard wearing. Good for extension tables etc too. Comes as water based (not tried this but I guess better for roller application) and...

I understand how some folk may come to write their posts, but please consider the following. LN are modest volume producers with a reputation for a relatively fixed wholesale price, so some idea of the relevant distribution tax/duty and sales costs in small sclale volume can be estimated by...

A number of people on the forum reccomend "Woodslicer" blades for resawing veneer, and they really are worth getting if you want a clean cut and minimal valuable stock wastage. The JET or Axminster 4300 will easily tension a 3/4 woodslicer* as they are the same thickness as most 1/2 blades...

Full 9mm of catalogue arrived yesterday. Definitely worth a good look. It seems the new style sit-on rails (incuding the flexible) are all interchangeable between joinery saws. The redesign allows for a substantial lock-in joining piece; rigid track is available in lenghts of 0.8, 1.1, 1.6...

Has anyone tried laminating from (birch) ply? There was a recent design in FWW, including a heavy laminated underframe. There's ~ 2 cuft in an 8x4 3/4 nom. sheet which comes out at £17.50 a cube including VAT. I once saw a top laminated from ~3" strips glued up edgewise - so you could see the...

Very best of wishes to OneWhoMustSoonBeObeyed ('er indoors insists it's the other way round) & thanks for the tips of glue guns!

Thanks Richard, look forward to receiving the catalogue! regards, Ivan

You've probably done this check - but are the soles of the planes truly flat? A concave sole, especially on the longer Groz, will produce just the effect you describe. Because the warp in the sole is raising the cutter off the wood, you have to keep turning the adjuster to get a cut, and then...

A fire door on trestles makes a good assembly table; also, quite versatile, flat and (relatively) cheap. Hollow core is quite strong and rigid, but the weight of the solid fire door, probably solid MDF under the skin, vastly improves stability. For sizing full sheets only, I'm not sure you...

I'm very fond of my KSP55F, it came with a 1.4m guide track (FS140) which fits into slots milled into the saw's baseplate. (purchased about the time the smaller saw with the spring steel roll up guide track came out) I gather from the manual there's an acessory FL series of guide tracks, which...

Intrigued by the weight of jointers, I put a Record #8 on the kitchen digital scales - it goes 10lb 8oz. This is one of the last #8s that Record made, and was (until Clfton/LN era) the only new plane I ever bought which was actually flat. It stayed that way too. If you have the relevant...

Isaac Lord are listing the 500mm blumotion for 17.66 a pair for 12+ pairs for allcomers; presumably that's the same as the trade price? Handy for weekend woodworkers undertaking a bigger job.

Just received this week from Amazon, two of Charles Hayward's classic books from the 1940/50's. I can see now where I need to improve, so I'm off to me tailors for a weskit collar and tie! Of an age where if thus prompted, I can actually recall previously forgotten sartorial craftsmen - and not...

tnimble, both the "radioactive" environment vac, and the Dyson root 8 have a HEPA filter on the air outlet. The outlet air quality is ultimately specified by the HEPA filter, not the cyclones, whose job is to remove as much as possible to extend the life of the HEPA filter to reasonable...

I have been experimenting with a very second hand mini cyclone vac originally sold for plaster dust (for use with wall chasers etc) This has a very short cone, so short it's only function appears to be getting the dust into the polybag designed to fix underneath. Bill Pentz's small cyclone has...

Paul, I was recommended Loctite 330 multibond - a 2 part cyanoacrylate/accelerator pack. I discussed what I wanted to do with the local Loctite distributor (bearing/transmission specialist from yellow pages). I was originally asking about bonding 2 plane blades together to experiment (you...

Wouldn't it be more elegant from an engineering point of view, to solder two ~3mm slips to the back of the cap iron, about 10mm sq., to drop into the blade's long slot? This also keps the length of the lever short, so the blade adjustment does not coarsen as a result of the modifcation. This...

Yetty, when the shielded brgs first siezed up (well before worn out by blade) on my bandsaw I replaced with the sealed type, which I've used for ~ 20 yrs. Haven't seen a blade damaged rubber seal yet. I presume shielded fitted as standard as a few pennies cheaper.

My very nice american brother in law recently presented me with 3 Festool sanders - 1/2 sheet, a larger 100x150 delta, and a 125 RAS. Buying festool media by the 100 looks best value, but not stocked by Axminster, my usual mail order supplier. Any suggestions?

Japan Woodworker's white steel chisel got a FW gold star. These are made by a bloke called Matsumura. I haven't got any of his bench chisels, but just got some of his parers - very nice and a sensible price. (and none of the forging faults seen in recent Iyorii mentioned by DC)