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horrific thought! :shock:

Wondering if anyone know of a cheaper way to buy these than spending £40 plus at Polewood machinery? http://www.poolewood.co.uk/acatalog/San ... l#a600310P Or even better does anyone sell rubber ones to fit these machines?

Thanks Dean, that's very helpful.

No, I foolishly didn't check the written quote I received properly. When I re-checked the quote after he had gone the only thing on there was the root cut and patch. Same price he gave verbally to include sealing the other drain though! I know, I should have checked, so my fault, just been...

The reason I'm querying it is that when he did the quote he verbally agreed to seal another drain (which is where the flood water came out from) at the same time, to prevent the same problem happening in future, but he left before doing it — just took off and didn't come in to say he'd finished...

Thanks, none of the work was done over Xmas, it was all done in Jan.  The initial survey is not included in the £270, that was billed seperatley.   For the root cut and lining he was there two hours max.   The root ball was about the size of a grapefruit. There was no tree or plant visible...

Just wondering if there is anyone out there who knows the sort of price to pay for drain repairs. We had a drain blocked by roots over xmas which backed up and caused a flood. We had someone out who did the following: Root cut at .9m downstream of surface gully. Install 1 x 100mm patch repair...

Oh, forgot to mention the best trick of all, which is to use Abranet for the sanding, with one of their sanding blocks that connects to a vacuum.... This helps loads, though you will still need to take great care, scrape flat first, and minimise any sanding as much as possible.

It's a really tricky one, and very hard to avoid altogether. Options that I know of are as follows: 1) As has been suggested inlay as best you can, polish before gluing in, and accept a bit of 'texture'. This looks fine with some styles of furniture — Arts and Crafts stuff was often done like...

Thanks for these ideas, think I will go with an old one off ebay as speed suggests. Accuscribe looks good, but I'm too cheap I think! Dakota, would probably be fine if I snipped off the point on the pencil side, but I took a solemn vow never to buy anything from that particular company again.....

I had a batch of not great sycamore recently, and fixed it with A/B bleach, but I had to do two applications — only on the second one did it go properly white. Worth a try on a scrap?

I seem to remember that we used these when I was at college to hold the shaft of an oar while we were shaping the front and back of the blade. The vise was attached to the end of the bench so the oar could lay flat and immobilised on the bench top for working.

This is a bit boring, but does anyone know where I can get hold of a decent compass for scribing — i.e. one that has a long point and stays set? The only ones I can find have silly little points to stop school children murdering each other (which of course happened all the time hence the...

If it was me I would get a set of Robert Sorby 166's (boxwood carving handle). I think this is probably a minority taste, but I like them, they feel nice in the hand, the steel is good, they are a good compromise between delicacy and something you can smack all day with a mallet if you want...

Of course! :-)

So as usual, ask the forum and get as many contradictory answers as you can handle ;-)

Even cleverer bloke than I thought — he got the timing spot on there!

As it happens I did a drawing of this for someone else on the forum a while ago. Usually the simplest approach is to attach the shelf to the wall with its own batten and let the brackets just take the weight — you don't need to attach them to the wall at all. As Mick says, diagonal grain is best.

Nice work :-)

Like Jim says. The best way to get the glue under is with a medical type syringe and needle (not too fine a needle or the glue won't flow). Needless to say make sure you put lots of decent sized softwood pads between the clamps and the table!