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I bought two new tape measures from Lidl a while ago, I took them into the workshop yesterday and both disappeared within about an hour. And pencils, it ate about six yesterday, no idea where they have gone. Last night I threw 10 pencils into the workshop before leaving, I wonder how many will...

It does have a micro adjuster behind it however it doesn't need quite as much space as this, the table size was governed by the size of the buffalo boards I acquired, the need for more storage for woodworking tools, the ability to store the fence underneath when not in use and I am going to...

First half of today was a mixture of sticking the formica to the other buffalo board and dad's taxi. The top is now laminated without any foreign bodies or mother-in-laws underneath the formica. I resisted the urge to route the plate hole in the top etc. and carried on with the carcass. First...

I have a solution and it's simple. I bought two identical bits of buffalo board and I also bought an 8 x 4 sheet of formica. The intention was to make a drill table which will be much smaller so I can hide the defect by using tonight's lamination for that one. So tomorrow I will laminate the...

The formica turned up late today so I stuck it on. I used tips from this forum to lay it and everything went smoothly, well except for one small thing. I laid it on battens after making sure the glue was well and truly dry, however one of the battens must have had a small of dirt or a splinter...

Your right Bob, I should have ordered some 12mm. I have a couple of sheets of 9mm for the drawers but for the carcass 18mm is a bit OTT in retrospect. I'll have a think, I could get some 12mm BB ply but it will delay me just when I have some workshop time and that's at a premium at the moment...

I intended to edge the drawer frame in oak but I'm running low on straight seasoned oak so I may not edge the surrounds for the cupboards etc, on the ends, so just the front. I'll have a another dig around and see if I have some old oak floor boarding left but think I have scraping the bottom of...

How about this for a nice bevel and micro-bevel on the spokeshave :shock: Maybe we need another thread on the worst sharpening on acquired tools :D

All these were freebies, the two on the right are from a neighbour, I'm currently sharpening the blade of one, the other blade was beyond repair, not much left on it and looked it had been used to plane floorboard nails so I bought a second hand Lie Neilsen blade off the bay of evil, a bit of an...

They cost nothing, he was happy that they were going to somebody that may use it :)

I'm on another forum or three and one of the most popular on one is a thread showing what tools you have acquired at low/no cost, could be car boot, skip dive, given or just cheap. Apologies if there is already a similar thread going :oops: Here's today's acquisitions, cost nothing, they...

Hi Bob I was looking at the handles to see if they remove easily, I will think about it when it comes to assembly time if they get in the way. Although it is intended for it to stay in the table, you never know when you may need it outside the table. I already have the NVR switch, it's shown...

I had a day finishing off the design after laying up the plate and the router. The router is on an angle when the mounting holes line up and the rise/fall handle hole coincide. This makes the router cabinet bit deeper so I rejigged the drawer layout to cope with this. This is the router with...

I wish, take kids to Judo, go to Hull for Dinsdales joke emporium as we promised the kids, then other city of culture stuff, then my brother's farm near Whitby, then the pub at last :)

Thanks Bob, no more workshop time this weekend however im hoping to blag some timber from the land lord of the pub near my brother's house so not a total waste of a weekend :) he has a smallholding with some old trees that he occasionally harvests and planks.

I've answered number 4, just got a sheet of light blue formica :) Here's front, right and left elevations, I shall finish the all important plan view later. Cheers Andy

I've found these that are similar, or seem to be.

Very nice :) what make/model of sliders are they?

This is where I ended up Monday evening after fitting the shelf unit to the wall. I cut the removable shelves to size this morning and have a coat of polyx oil drying on one side now. Once the shelves are in and Lizzie can use it as a bookcase I shall attack the frieze around the top with the...

Thanks Bob, I shall take a look at the mitre on the table saw tomorrow and decide if I need a new one, it can wait a while as I'm a bit skint after podding out for the router table bits. I have gone a bit OTT on it but after making do with cheaper tools and being disappointed and spending twice...