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My first thoughts for a prototype are a 25mm box section frame hanging down from the roof beam, either welded or clamped. Then with one of these clamped to it with exhaust clamps, its a 35mm vacuum cleaner telescopic pipe with about 300mm of travel on it, more than necessary and costs about 6...

I've bought a Wadkin AGS 12 and I have found a permanent location for it in the shop, its not going to be on wheels, so it staying where it is. The saw came without a crown guard, the riving knife has been modified for sled work and would need to be replaced to mount a guard on the riving knife...

I had 5 minutes spare today so did a very quick and dirty test. First the flat side. Here are the tools, first a Bahco, then a Narex, then the Liogier then a random no brand strange rasp with rows of blades that has found itself into my toolbox from somewhere. then I used each tool in turn in...

The weekend didn't go according to plan, too many visitors to get much done. However I did make a bit of progress. First the saw marks in the front of the top, for some reason this got quite a few score marks. I had the top planed and cut to size at the nearby joiners shop as he has bigger saws...

I have browsed the shinto saw rasps before and liked the idea, I may put one on my birthday list as they are a good present price and hopefully will mean I will avoid getting awful socks or other novelty tat that ultimately gets filed in the round filing cabinet! I can only see flat versions...

I've just bought a couple from Dieter Schmid Fine Tools. They came well packaged in a vast cardboard box, each in its own plastic tube They both look very well made, the handles are tight and comfortable. Nothing flash about them. 1895 pennies included in the photo for scale :) Here's a...

I didn't get much done on the bench today, but I can see that it's coming together and it shouldn't be too long now. I fitted the second top then fitted the vice chop and hand wheel so I could sketch out the shape the chop will look like. It's only now that I realise how big and heavy it will...

Dad's taxi is having a break until this evening so, back on the Roubo bench :) I have the two tops on now, so I shall be planing the saw marks out of the side an adjusting the gap between the tops as the tops have changed shape ever so slightly and I now have a 2mm difference in gap between the...

Thanks for that Memzey, not ideally located if you've just chopped your right hand off! So I guess more for convenience than safety :) I'm thinking of dropping the blade guard from the ceiling along with an extraction hose, keeps it all out of the way. Cheers Andy

I have a secret weapon to prevent most rust now, at least the kind caused by condensation due to a quick change of temperate leaving my lathes and other big cast machines covered in water. I have installed a pellet boiler, heat store (500 litre tank) and thermostat. At the moment I just fix the...

Good point :)They arrived this afternoon, they are packaged in plastic tubes so may keep them in there. I haven't had time to try them out yet, hopefully at some point over the weekend I'll get some time. I messing about with table saws and reorganising/tidying the workshop tomorrow so probably...

Not for long, :) I'm hoping to sell the AGS 10 quickly, it's a good machine and with the single phase motor and NVR switch I have I just need a double pulley for the 24mm shaft and I can convert it to single phase pretty quickly. That doesn't seem an issue, I can bore out a blank one and broach...

That's brilliant! =D> I wish I had used hardwood now, the Douglas fir is a bit soft, especially for the top, I guess I have plenty to plane if it needs it so probably moaning unnecessarily. Your joinery looks great to me, nothing wrong with it and I like the shape of the chop too. Cheers Andy

I'm glad you are all not jealous, I can rest easy at night now, otherwise I may have been driven to drink :D We had to take a lot of it apart to get it up through the hole in the workshop floor, the fence rail, dust collection box etc. it was just a couple of inches too long with those cast...

Why is it so expensive to ship stuff to Cyprus?

Ouch! not nice! It's a small world, the guy who sold me the AGS 12 know you, he's called Bruce and I believe you have his PK mitre on loan. His workshop is out of this world, I am in awe. The furniture he makes is beautiful too :)

Sorry Bob, I didn't mean to make you not jealous :) Yes, I know I am completely mad, but I seem to have bought another saw! This time an AGS 12. Why you may ask, a very sensible question, one that her indoors also asked. Well it was in good nick, it was close by, it had a decent mitre with it...

Looks a very good drill for the money. There are several ways, you can bore it out, bush it up, buy an old single phase motor or look for another pulley, bearing boys sell a good range of pulleys and you can get shaft sleeves and taper lock bushes for adapting pulleys.

They are Liogier, I can provide feedback but can't compare them with any other hand cut rasps as these will be the first I've tried :)

I have a flat Narex rasp, far better than others in my tool box, I'm hoping these are better still :) I bought some leather off-cuts for the vice jaws, I think I may get the missus to make a roll for the rasps, too good to throw in the drawer!