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No Rob. I've never had extraction for any of my machines, other than a vacuum cleaner for my router table. The planer thicknesser works perfectly well without. You simply collect up the shavings from the floor. Can you imagine how much planing and thicknessing I did when building a solid oak...

Thanks Andy. And yes, needle files were the approach I tried. The thing is, there are only a finite number of these old augers in existence, so I am loath to chuck out any even if they are really stuffed. I've got multiple augers of ever size, so I don't actually need replacements, or need the...

I couldn't agree more. The easy part of being an architect is the buildings. They're dead simple. The difficult stuff is always around the people......clients, councils, and contractors.

Well, I just use winding sticks and a number 6. There's a danger in over-complicating simple (but sweaty) tasks.

I appreciate, Adam, that you are going through your back catalogue with some of these posts, and so you may not have work-in-progress type photos. However, because of the uniqueness of your output, yours really are the sorts of projects which we'd all really love to see from beginning to end...

The bit where they formed the thread on the point wasn't very clear......and it's the bit I wanted to see. I've a number of augers with badly damaged or worn threads, and I wanted a clue as to how to fix them.

Oaks don't produce the same number of acorns every year. It is part of their reproductive strategy of using squirrels to distribute the acorns into buried caches, and is a delightful example of evolution at work. Here's a really nice little video explaining it:

How's Sir Geoffrey going to score any runs with rhubarb that short? :)

They're clearly made for me! I have no sense of smell. Anyone who can't cope with the stink, drop me a PM.

You're still here? Hmmm, there should have been a mystery "accident" an hour or so back. Now, where's Stavros' number....

I tell you what, you're doing some pretty decent joinery there. That's going to be a really strong bench when it's done. Planing the aprons down is a step I'd have tried to avoid, I reckon, because you've now got to decide on a final line. How you decide where that should be, and how you mark...

Blimey, there's a degree of complication there.

So do I folks. Don't worry, it was just a computer issue at my end.

Did you do the coopering?

If you do the gable first then you'd need to plant another piece of timber on the gable to take the end of the ceiling OSB. Whatever suits your order of work is do-able.

Seriously, that chisel was a classic. They're wonderful tools, and that was perfectly revivable from the state it was in in the photo. If you've any more like that, send them to me, I'll sort them out and send them back again. You'll never destroy an old chisel again.

Blimey. Either you're not using it enough, or you haven't realised that it's a bit blunter than you think (it does creep up on you slowly). I reckon I resharpen my main tenon saw 2 or 3 times a year, and I've got 4 others that share the sawing burden.

It's excellent. But "comprehensive" isn't necessarily a good thing for a complete beginner. As with all sorts of skills, a beginner wants enough information to just get going, and not all the tips and nuances needed for every situation he might face in the next 30 years. For a beginner, go to...

:) You destroyed a perfectly good chisel just for the handle! You're on a very short list along with Sunnybob. I will find you..... :)