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I really sympathise with you too especially getting a load of grief starting out on something new. See if cancelling, taking the hit on charges and sourcing ash from another timber yard leave you better off economically and then decide if the effort and hassle is worth it. I’m sure plenty of...

Blimey, I looked up my local yard rate for 2” ash and it’s just under £41 per cuft (ex vat) so lord knows how your supplier is getting onto £300-odd per cuft. Can you cancel the order?

Sounds like I’m in a similar situation to the OP with loads of rebate work teed up. With the Veritas skew rabbet plane being unavailable for ages now, I decided to get a vintage wooden moving fillister plane off eBay instead. I’m going to use it to hog off the waste shy of the scribe lines and...

That’s right, no retailer in the U.K. has one nor Fine Tools or Dictum in Germany. There was a very recent auction of a secondhand one in fleabay uk and it was already bid up over £300 with several days left when I last looked at it. I should had watched it to see what it actually went for. Good...

A little while ago, I was looking at using PSA with polypropylene sheet for a test idea and found 3M’s webpage on low surface energy plastics bonding helpful. https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/bonding-and-assembly-uk/applications/material-bonding/lse-plastics/

In addition to the above names, I like Bob Rozaieski’s YouTube videos and his own website focusing on traditional hand work. I tend to avoid those woodworking YouTubers that has a lot of edited action shots and slo-mo close ups with punchy music because they can give a misleading impression of...

What about builders angle brackets used in joist work? You can get them in various dimensions. Otherwise how about flanged corner brackets instead?

In that case, why don’t you try the table out when the holes are all drilled out and see if it is a problem before creating infill plugs? I mean the Festool crowd would had created a solution (or 20) if they thought this was an issue.

Do you really need all those dog holes? Most people have a table side that they work on virtually all of the time meaning some holes just don’t get used at all because they are too far away or inconvenient. In the past I simply drilled more holes as and when I truly needed them.

Ha! Named from Sinclair’s rubber faced spectrum rival, the Commodore 64. Mind you, I had both of them and brilliant fun.

Hi everyone, is there a newbie introductions post or section in the forum? I’ve looked at this forum in the past too for advice and ideas and only been responding recently to existing posts but without mentioning about myself because I didn’t want to clog up threads.

Last summer, I was using the Infinity Tools’ large colonial router bit 19-130 to make up 30-odd metres skirting boards with my DeWalt/Kreg router table and it really felt beyond what the router table should be used for. The noise and vibration was frankly ridiculous with the large, tall router...

I’m not familiar with the Parkside saw but does it have a parallel side fence attachment option? This will allow the saw with its attached fence to reference against the MDF board edge from a set distance away. It’s what I use for this kind of repetitive cut but otherwise I do something similar...

I tried pushing for more off but they were having none of it and I wasn’t too fussed. I know some people bemoan Lie Nielsen and Veritas for being overly pricey when cheaper alternatives are available but one thing in their favour is give it a couple of years and you can easily get your money...

Similar situation to the OP when I called Axminster before xmas to check on a credit note for a returned item as they don’t show up in accounts. Whilst on the phone, the lady confirmed that a Veritas plane I was looking at was available at my nearest store but it was likely to be the last...

E Roberts in Tottenham has the usual rough sawn hardwoods like oak, ash, maple, poplar, sapele, etc and I’ve found them reasonably priced when compared to SL Hardwoods and Chiltern Timers. That’s if you don’t mind the trip around the north circular / M25 from SW London. @Ollie78 what’s Arnold...

Doug at Cutting Solutions supplied me with a flat toothed blade that worked well for my table saw. It was 250x3.2/2.2x30 Z=20 FTG blade i.e. 250mm diameter, 3.2mm kerf, 30mm arbor, 20 teeth and flat tooth configuration. I paid £46 including p&p 18-odd months ago.

One man band Bruce at SaundersSeasonings mills and dries (both air and kiln) his own boards from tree boules sourced from felled trees in London and Home Counties. He has a stock holding in Blackhorse Workshop, Walthamstow, E17, London with the usual English hardwoods like oak, ash, sycamore...