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I use a festool in the workshop and a bosch gex 150 for roughish work on site. My local B and Q have some 125mm Triton sander for £20 ish which look half decent so may be worth considering. Jon

Looks Good Olly. Just a word of warning if the lacquer is still a little soft the bubblewrap can eat into the finish and leave circles on the surface. I had to refinish quite a few kitchen doors because of this phenomenon. Jon

Looks good Doc. My guess for timber would be indian rosewood. Jon

I have a big panel saw and 90% of the cutting gets done on the sliding table. The downside is you need a lot of room and a fairly expensive saw to get consistent accuracy. If you are squaring panels of a wide rip fence you will have to make sure that the panels you are cutting have square and...

Looks Good Your Lordship. One consideration I have just thought of is that there is no room around the chess board to keep the pieces that have been taken or are you planning to keep the drawer open whilst playing. Are you planing on making the chess pieces as well? A set based on woodworking...

Done a bit more today. I planed up the timber for the solid top which is 1 1/4 inch American White Oak finished at 26mm. Jointed with the Domino and Glued up with UF Resin Glue. And in Clamps The solid top of the unit is going to flow into some new window boards which I will also be...

Hi Aidan I am a Fan of Point Break. How did you Guess :D If its for the competition I think you really ought to join the veneer yourself. This is how I joint my veneers basically it is a 2.4m long shooting board that is used with a No7 Jointer. Its is constructed with 2 pieces of 50mm angle...

What consistency problems are you having? It should be possible to get perfect results everytime with a vacumn press. Jon

Seeking out a forum member near you with a vacumn press may be a good idea. I dont think many commercial companies would be interested in such a small order. Jon

Excellent pictures and work. Cheers Jon

I would suggest you use an acylic based varnish which will keep the maple as white as possible. If you want too after varnishing you could lightly denib the surface and finish with liberon neutral colour black bison wax which doesnt change the colour and leaves a nice surface. If the table isnt...

I think you will be ok using solid timber It may move very slightly in service but not enough to cause any problems maybe a very slight ripple in the worst case. I would use a UF resin glue rather than PVA. A guy who writes for F&C mag has done a few tables like your design. see here...

Nice work Brad. I am often getting phone calls like yours and as you say challenge on. It doesnt always have a good end result like yours sometimes everything goes **** up. Jon

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Thanks for the comments John - The clients have decided they want Solid shelves and not the glass so they are just going to be 19mm Oak Mdf Lipped with solid Oak. They are here ready to be sized and fitted Jon

Other Jobs have put this project on the back burner but I managed to grab a few hours yesterday on it. First job was to hang the doors using satin chrome finish butt hinges. The hinges are double cut into the door so that the beaded edge on the frame doesnt need cutting into leaving a neater...

Heres one I have just finished. Solid Maple with Glass Banisters and Maple panelling. Will Post some proper pics once the carpet has been fitted. Jon

Hi Brian You can download the regs for staircases here(PDF document link) http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/englan ... 00536.html It should give you an idea of how to work out the rise and going. The rise will usually be between about 180 and 200mm and the going about 230 - 250mm. If you...

The ceiling falling on your head :shock: You will have to cut away the joists and install a double trimmer all around and hang the cut away joists of these. You may need to prop up the joists as you do this with some acro props it depends on which way the joists run. Jon

Are you just fitting or making them as well? If fitting the top step hooks over and is fastened to the top trimmer joist and the stairs are fastened to the wall through the stringer. If there are half landings or winders you may have to make up some support framework. Jon