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I've been in touch with Bob (9fingers) to ask him to make me a dado flange for a dewalt RAS. He suggested I ask if anyone else needs one as this will make cost lower for everyone. If you want one then PM me and I will ask Bob for the price once I know how many. They will be to fit an old...

I bought some off Mathew at Workshop Heaven for a school I was teaching at last year. The handles are a bit ugly (to be expected at the price), but they are excellent chisels nevertheless and very good value.

The cure is doing it for a living. Impending financial meltdown can be quite motivating....

Thanks chaps, useful to know.

Just wondering for future reference, since we're talking about little machines, does anyone know whether this sort of thing http://www.toolstop.co.uk/sealey-sm2503 ... hine-p7851 is a waste of time, or are they any good?

I stopped by G & M today on my way past to check it out. Great place! Lots of stuff of interest to woodworkers, some decent hand tools and also some good machines in varying states of repair. Lots of excellent old drill presses. There was a good Startrite bandsaw with a wide throat, and a...

I've been doing some hand fret-sawing in the last few days and always find that the biggest annoyance with this is dust obscuring the cut line. Here's a simple solution I've come up with. I got a little aquarium air pump (dirt cheap) and a length of tube and stuck it to the saw with masking...

I think Axminster do short weekend introductory courses about this sort of thing? If I could afford some small engineering machines I expect I would use them for custom handles and hinges and other one off pieces of hardware. And probably they would get used for making bits of jigs as well from...

I'll have it if you don't want it :wink:

I was in Maraquesh once and I bought a chess set off a guy in the market (the Djemaa el Fna, amazing place), and he only had half a set of the pieces I wanted, so he sat there with his bow lathe and made the others while I watched. Amazing skill, took no time at all.

Depending on the degree of accuracy needed you can get pretty close if you get someone else to sight you as you drill freehand - ie to stand at the side and tell you whether you are off vertical so you can adjust.

You do that then.

I've always found that reliably flat surfaces are very useful in a workshop, and the larger the better, not least as a point of reference. It's not essential, but it makes life easier. I do see some advantages to an open grid, and perhaps it would be possible to make one from softwood that was...

Yes it's not a bad idea at all, so long as it is built in and able to take rigidity from walls and floor. If it's to be moved about then a grid without skins won't stay flat. Also with an un-skinned grid it would be more important that the material it is made from is totally stable if you...

I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure that legally it would be the tradesman's responsibility to sort out. The tradesman has supplied faulty goods to the customer, and the customer has had no dealings with the supplier at all, so hard to see how he could then turn up demanding replacements...

I used to have a bandsaw which just about ran off a 13 amp supply, though it recommended 16 amps. It would usually be fine but it tripped just often enough to p**s me off. I've generally found that when they say 16 amps they do really need it — it's hardly a selling point to make this a...

If you want the authentic grey colour of old (exterior) wood you can try dissolving steel wool in vinegar for a couple of days then putting that on once you have banged it about.

I'm making a torsion box at the moment for a similar-ish purpose and have decided on good quality ply for the skins. Certainly better wearing and stiffer than mdf. Will probably coat with epoxy paint. Another option is formica (as a protective layer on top of the ply), or a sacrificial layer...

This place is dangerously close to me :-?

Thanks Mike, very helpful, have ordered the book! The intention is to have skins both sides. Originally I was going to use the torsion box on its own to anchor the posts for the hand screws, but I figured that the edges of the box would then be under huge pressure, which even with a torsion...