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Which way is best depends on several factors. How accurate does the shape need to be? Steamed components spring back a lot more than laminated ones. Will the component be secured by others? (steam bent components tend to straighten somewhat over time if not held in position). Will you...

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Hi there, I'm soundproofing a new workshop at the moment and just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on whether acoustic mineral wool is worth the price premium over the common or garden stuff? Plan at the moment is to put 50mm mineral wool between battens on the (brick) walls with fermacell...

Krenov is interesting on this. I recall a passage where he is pointing out the value of finely made things, but goes on to say that no one can - or should - be surrounded by such things. Bottom line is that it is just too expensive and time consuming to make everything to the highest standards...

No, ran out of cash!!

It's a lot better than a BD for endgrain if you use an iron ground to a relatively acute angle, as you get a lower working angle than a BD can give you. Much easier to push and generally nicer when working the ends of thicker boards. Still, this use definitely comes under the heading of...

With a BU you seem to be constantly adjusting the mouth to compensate for the fact that adjusting the blade depth changes the mouth opening size. Also the blade requires a bigger camber than a BD, which is more time consuming to do and harder to judge by eye (for me anyway). Also, as others have...

Ray, for what it's worth I have a lynx panel saws, and l found it perfectly competent and well priced. I second Jim re veritas back saws. I have one of their dovetail saws and though (like most Veritas gear) it isn't a thing of beauty they really do feel beautiful and work very well indeed.

Just wondering if anyone can recommend a company or individual who would be able to make me some unusual brass cabinet hinges (about 30) to my design at a reasonable cost. They're not decorative - I'm no engineer but would imagine that they would need to be machined rather than cast. Any...

I second Iroko if you can stretch to that.

Ok, so I've made my choices and the tools are starting to arrive! Budget constraints were such that I ended up going for a mixture or new and second hand stuff. Chisels Mathew at Workshop heaven did us a fantastic deal on some sets of Narex 8105 BE chisels. He also very kindly slipped some...

I'm very much in agreement with your general approach - spot on! Re your question on sharpening, is there a reason you don't have diamond stones in your list of choices? Much less hassle than water stones, and faster than oil stones. My sharpening set-up is a DMT Duo sharp fine/medium and a...

All the saws mentioned are completely capable of doing the job and doing it well. By going for the premium model you get something that works a little better and looks a lot nicer. It's not at all necessary, but it's very nice to have if you can afford it! BTW it's a personal thing, but when...

Love those old notes, some pretty advanced joinery there - don't think I'll be teaching the stuff in the sixth picture for a while :-) ! Pete, the trivet idea is good, I'll try it with a tile like Rob suggests - would be good if they can make their own tile in the pottery class.... On a...

Thanks for that, Rob, very helpful. I know what you mean about decent timber - when I had woodworking classes at school we were given horrible, knotty spruce to practice M & Ts on - with the knots inevitably just where the joints needed to go. As a result I came to the conclusion that I must...

You might consider investing in a TCT bandsaw blade. They seem expensive, but they last more or less for ever compared to normal blades which go blunt frighteningly quickly when re-sawing hard timber like oak. As soon as the blade starts to blunt it wanders all over the place. In my experience...

It's best not to use epoxy on antiques if you can avoid it, although this would work. If you go this route it would be a good idea to thicken it with micro-fibres or similar. If it was me I would try gluing a piece of thin veneer, grain orientated in same direction as on the leg, round the...

Hi Rob Thanks for that, feel free to go on, I'm only to glad to benefit from your experience! My plan at the moment is to get them making some basic tools for themselves first - bench hook, mallet, oilstone box, and a simple plane. Then teach some basic joints, and after that give them some...

Thanks for these suggestions! There are some educational suppliers, but they seem to be more aiming at CDT classes, and I haven't found one yet which sells what I need. I've been in touch with Nick Gibbs, re the plane making competition, but am not sure we will be able to get it sorted in time...

If you decide to go the hand plane route I would get some scraps you don't care about to practice on first. It's not uncommon for the first few attempts to end up taking up a lot more timber than you intend, and to have very little board left at the end! Marcus