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Reading on a bit it seems as if there's an issue with people not being able to interpret intention behind a written post as much as there is people either being snarky or not wording their posts particularly well. Perhaps business is a better word than 'trade'. I paint as well as spending my...

Maybe the moderators could add another subforum for questions relating to the business side of woodworking; it does come up quite often even if the general consensus seems to be keep your day job and do it as a hobby these days. I understand protests about the original post. Strolling in to a...

A lot of it depends on time of day. When I was at work I was seeing auctions end after five pm or on the weekend and everything seemed extremely overpriced. Now I'm coasting along on my redundancy I managed to bag a boxed, unused Stanley 4 1/2 for £18. I believe it was made in the 40s but to...

I got a payg sim on O2 a while ago only to discover that after a month everything I paid for disappeared. It seems like the big companies aren't happy with letting people send a text every few months any more and have turned pay as you go in to a 30 day contract system. I guess people could...

There's a seller on there who moves a large volume of Persian rugs. I've been after some large rugs for ages and it took me a while to realise that they're pushing the price of their own listing up. All of their rugs go for at least a hundred pounds, but there have been a few occasions where...

Hi. The workshop is coming along fairly well. I'm basically doing an interior decoration of an old stone shed and I've probably used a few too many dirty shortcuts to get it done quickly but the aim was to do something I can take apart when I love out and something that will be ready before...

Dust mask. I have a 3M one. Just got some new filters after using the old ones for months and months with no issues. I only changed them because I thought it had probably been a silly amount of time, not because I couldn't breathe or they were letting dust through. The mask was around 20 quid...

I went with the hammer and bolster route. I probably wouldn't have won any respect from any builders and it's a good job aldi had steel toe capped boots on sale recently, but I got the job done.

Don't go to University. Granted it was only eight or so years ago but everything I was good at at the time, and was still interested in, doesn't seem to benefit from a degree any more. I was in university when the world financial system and the housing market were going **** up, so by the time...

I don't think that anyone claims that non-whites can't be guilty of racism. Coverage of racism in the media, and general every day racism in society, seems to be majority white-on-whoever racism, so maybe it seems as if people think that racism between other races or towards whites isn't a...

Right that's it. Tomorrow I'm making my own bread.

Another vote against 4k. No one has the ability to play 4k video unless they've got a TV that came out very recently or a new iPhone. There are very few 4k TV channels. I almost bought a 4k TV based on the impressive displays at Currys, then I realised that I would have absolutely nothing to...

Cheers Phil. Off to Screwfix then.

I'm in the north west. I'm not sure on the type of stone. It's a medium grey colour, if that helps. I don't think it will. The workshop is empty at the moment although there is some wooden shelving up, the floor is wood and two of the walls are pure white. Perhaps a club hammer and bolster is...

It's 4 1/2". I already have my wood turning PPE so I'll go with that although my dad did throw some goggles in the case with the grinder.

I have some jaunty stones sticking out of the wall of my workshop and I could do with grinding some corners off so that things can fit in a bit more nicely. Never having used an angle grinder, I've borrowed a Bosch one, checked with the owner (my dad) and he says it's a small job that wont bring...

There are a lot of people on there seemingly making good money. I have a set of drawers, somewhere between a filing cabinet and a map chest, maybe from the 50s or 60s that I bought for 50 quid from a local antiques store. It's a nice set of drawers with a bit of style to it. The same set...

You'll need a bench grinder, and at a minimum a white wheel. You can sharpen freehand, build a simple wooden jig or get something fancy. I think someone is selling a jig on the forums here.

Sorry, I meant that's what I paid for mine on eBay, rather than me listing it.

This is what puts me off visiting timber yards. I don't think anyone can keep up with the price of every available species of timber, and being on a small island a lot of our timber is imported anyway with varying shipping and import charges layered on top. Add that to the discretionary...