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Maybe I'm the only ***** that didn't do it on its side... (350S as well) Not that you'd have the table attached when doing that (it contributes a lot to the weight), but once it's assembled, make sure you don't drag the saw around by the table. The trunnion is a bit flimsy.

I have a DX1000 that I've made obsolete. It was originally my only method of extraction but it's got way too many issues. It's disgustingly loud even with ear defenders. It overheats after 15 mins of continuous use. This makes it tricky to use with sanders or anything that's a more 'extended'...

At the end of the day it's just probability. If you're already doing everything right (push sticks, riving knife, properly set up fence, correct blade height etc.) then it's very unlikely you'll ever _need_ a crown guard. But if you add a crown guard, injury is even less likely. Maybe it saves...

:eek: I just had a go at flattening and you're right, it was quick and straight forward... I ended up just going perpendicular to address the hump first, then the whole surface. Nice and flat now. I was just scared of making it worse and voiding a warranty somehow, so thanks for the...

Thanks. The thing I was worried about is not being able to focus on the hump while leaving the edges alone. I've got the 300/1000 Trend.

Another new tool, another disappointment with out-of-the-box flatness. I'm starting wonder if people who write reviews and say things like "dead flat" are blind, or whether I'm just unlucky. Anyway, I just received a 16000 grit Shapton stone. My understanding is they're meant to be among the...

How are the two cross-sections attached to one another?

His workshop is super cool, but he barely uses it in his videos. It's mostly for production of their tools. Most of the time he's using hand tools, at least in recent years. I'm totally aware of him promoting his products, which gets a bit tedious since he'll avoid talking about things that...

I got the metric fence and rail dogs late last year and I wasn't impressed with the finishing either. The fence had a razor sharp corner that I cut myself on and if you just look at the finish wrong, it'll scratch. Also not their fault, but the rail dogs are incredibly clunky to use because if...

It's unfair to generalise an entire country, but something about American woodworking style just rubs me the wrong way. I spend more time than I'd like to admit watching woodworking on YouTube and I find that everyone I like is either British or Canadian. I think it's that the Brits/Canadians...

Those corner braces won't do anything. Regarding M&T vs. screws: I have a Sjobergs Elite workbench. It's meant to be one of the better benches you can buy. It's M&T except for the longitudinal portions (stretchers), where they've used bolts so it can be packed flat for shipping. It doesn't...

Definitely do mortise and tenons. The legs are so thick that you can easily make nice fat mortises with just a router and a plywood template. If you have access to a bandsaw, the tenons become a piece of cake as well. I made a huge workbench and did 12 mortise and tenons that way, having never...

I don't think any of them are accurate. They use IMUs internally, and cheap ones (sub £100 for just the chip) just can't deliver that kind of accuracy. For cuts that need to be 90 degrees I'd always just use a square. For uncommon angles that don't need too be that precise, the bevel boxes are...

In this case it was a Wera allen key, which doesn't have a scratch on it. Good call about checking the threads.

I needed to align my table saw mitre slot to the blade, which required undoing the bolts that hold the cast iron top to the base. These were M6 x 25mm bolts with round heads and a hex slot. One of the hex slots got chewed really badly and I had to grind flat edges onto the head to get mole...

Amazing work. That neck :love: What's your approach to getting the neck dead straight across its profile? I have no problem shaping the neck (faceting with rasps) but then get stuck in an endless loop of chasing little high/low spots around in the sanding. It's getting to the point where I'm...

That crossed my mind as I was doing it. It's on the thicknesser so I can't control the feed rate and it was still jamming on a 0.5mm cut. Think I'll just go back to never using pine again!

I have an Axminster chip extractor. It has a steel grating to stop you putting your hands into the impeller. But shavings from the planer/thicknesser tend to get caught on it and it jams up. I've found today that this is especially bad with pine and it clogs up every 30 seconds or so. I was...

Axminster gave me a £40 gift card because they noticed a small scratch on a table saw before delivery. When it arrived, I couldn't even spot it...

Yeah that's the exact vibe I had from it. The anti-kickback pawls (for some reason not pictured in the stock image) are ridiculously tightly sprung as well, and then smash back into the table so hard that they leave craters that have to be sanded flat. Luckily I had the saw replaced due to a...