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This has been an expensive conversation! Two rasps on their way...... A 250mm 9 cut cabinet rasp and a 200mm long, 8mm diameter round rasp, cut 12

Interesting idea Andy, yes I do want to get into more hand tool work so this fits and I would rather spend cash on tools I would use more often than a one off router bit. I wouldn't know what "cut" to get on a rasp though, any tips? In terms of budget I'm probably about 3 years from retirement...

I'm now thinking about how to shape the vice chop. It's a lamination of walnut and douglas fir over 75mm thick. I'm not going to do anything wacky with the shape, a pretty standard flat topped "keyhole" shape like the benchcrafted bench below. My thoughts are to make a template out of MDF...

Hi Mike There are 4 big screws that go through the top stretchers and combined with gravity hold the top down. I know quite a few Roubo benches have through tenons, often quite intricate but as this is a softwood bench and I may want to take it apart to move it I went the for this Benchcrafted...

I managed to get a bit of quality workshop time in over the weekend, first I glued up the end frames and left them overnight. Then I drilled and pegged the tenons with walnut dowels, while the glue was going off I set about the long stretchers with a 25mm forstner bit for the barrel nuts. I...

I have the Mafell plunge saw, lovely bit of kit. I bought it for several reasons. Firstly I have their jigsaw, the only one that cuts perpendicular on curves and you can use it with a fence without snapping blades. Because of that I had some of their guide rail, it came with the jigsaw. They...

I clamped the chop to the bench and marked it up for the vice screw hole which is 35mm, making sure it the screw and associated hardware had plenty of room and didn't clash with stretchers etc. I then took the chop off and drilled the hole in the pillar drill. I then put the chop back on the...

It looks like I have sold my Elektra Beckum PK200 to my neighbour who is about to start making bee hives. It's been a good saw but I wanted something older, I just like old kit, also means I will get proper mitre slots. So I bought this Wadking AGS 10 from the bay of fleas, £300 plus...

Doh, missed the bit about the wheeled version. As you say, confusing, no source gives the full dimensions in use rather than in transit, and some are the boxed sizes. Bloody parky over here at the moment, I had a nice toasty workshop until Jan 4th when a transformer on the pellet boiler circuit...

I think I have a few dimensions for you, not perfect but here's what I gleaned The manual says "The table saw is supplied with a dust extraction adapter for use with nozzles of 35 mm and the DeWALT AirLock system" The site saw itself is 330mm high, 550mm deep and 580mm wide from here The...

It's arriving on a pallet, hopefully in the same number of pieces that it was sent with. If there are more pieces you may not be quite as jealous:) I'm sitting in my car waiting for the screen to clear, it's -2 here, I bet it's not where you are?

If you search Google for your saw and look at images it comes up with lots of plans of workstations that people have made for the saw. If they don't have exact dimensions you may be able to contact somebody with the same saw. I've been busy on the farm, work, kids and writing my own CH...

Looks like a good saw given your constraints, at least it has a standard mitre slot :)

Over the weekend I got the rest of the tenons finished and did a dry fit of the frame. All looks good, all the joints are tight but only need slight mallet persuasion ,I may have one or two shoulders to slightly adjust. next was the leg vice. First drill the chop and leg for the Benchcrafted...

Thanks Chris, with age I have begun to realise if I can screw it up, I will, so I try to reduce the opportunities plus I have modified the old adage, measure twice, cut once to measure three times.... I made a bit of progress today. I decided to work on the front lower stretched first while...

It was a good job I laid the components out before I chiselled the mortices as I had marked out the rear right leg mortices in the wrong place. I then chiselled out the mortices on the Axminster morticer that the wife bought me for my 40th Birthday, I think I have used it 3 times in over 15...

I did :) Here's a link post1228741.html#p1228741 Cheers Andy

I've got a Bahco too, it was and still is way out when delivered, it's in my "to do" pile to file the ways to make it square. Not a difficult job admittedly but a square that isn't square isn't a square so surely selling them like this is against the trade descriptions act :) If you look at...

I bought a similar Starrett, but just the square with metric only rule. I went for the forged rather than cast head as I'm a clumsy so and so. Cost bang up 100 quid. If I need an imperial rule I will buy a spare one, I hate not having the same scale on both edges and both sides of the rule. The...

I haven't had much time today, just an hour after work. I've marked out all the mortices and labelled them with their corresponding tenon. Next time I get to play will be the end of the week and I will lay all the legs and stretchers out and check I have marked the correct faces then check the...