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Out of curious… How do people cut the mitres on a picture frame without a shooting board? I know it can be done from a marked line with a block plane, does anyone do this?

For fine tapers you can skew the blade, so do the same to get it as square as you want. Nothing is actually square, it’s just how far off it is. There is lot of navel gazing by people who seem to not make a lot about how to sharpen, squareness, flatness etc… almost always without an...

Well, if it’s Wallace doing it… give him a roll of Emery cloth and straight edge, he loves that kinda thing!

A rebate cutter in a router may be able to take off 0.5mm for half the hole depth, then a template flush cutter to make the rest of the hole the same diameter… but really I wouldn’t, if you make a hole sloppy, most of the advantages of an MFT are gone.

Sounds like it’s bent through use rather than storage, so if it’s not strong enough even if you can bend it back perfectly, the same problem will arise again. So I’d bolt some box-section steel to the back of it or similar, dragging the wood back straight with it

Abrasive belt cleaner works well for un-gunking soft deposits, if they are soft

Oh, this thing about “seasoning” castings… well, people used to have to do that because they couldn’t model the stresses from the casting process, in fact a lot of old machines are a terrible design for staying flat, it’s 1st year course stuff now to avoid the way they were designed, long...

It won’t look the same, but I suspect you’d struggle to notice a performance difference between having them ground flat or milled flat, so long as someone can hold them still and level, the price difference might be huge.

My Makita one finally gave up last month (as in the foam disintegrated), 40% of the price of a new machine for just the foam pad with Velcro… so I took a punt on an £8 one from eBay, now the previous one lasted years of abuse and I’ve only just got the new one, but I’m thinking I can buy 6 of...

As others have said, that’s not a micrometer. Although they’re expensive new, second hand unless someone knows it’s still got the accuracy and precision it had new, it’s not worth a lot. Micrometers are a good example, a £200 micrometer is worth 10p if it’s been dropped and people can’t tell...

If you want all the pitting gone, you need to remove all material above the deepest pit anywhere on both tables (statement of the obvious there). So if they’re mostly 0.5mm deep but one is 1.5mm you’re chunking off a lot of metal to achieve that. It probably won’t make the machine work better

I guess it depends what you want, to get all that pitting off is a fair bit of metal removal, which is probably fine to do, but may not make it perform any better as a machine, there’s always a risk of warping the table too. Flat is a relative term, wood is not well known for being a good...

Surface grinding something that small will be pretty easy for many places, the 450mm width will rule out some of the smaller outfits using old reciprocating machines. Surface grinding is less of a thing now for flat tables than it was as the finish of a mill is better, but it’s still done...

Decking ply, structural, pretty and stable

I’m sure a router is just the same Joe… :ROFLMAO:

What if I told you… you could take TWO passes? Mind blown!

SOLD - Richard Kell No.3 MkII - SOLD Some slight scratches, nothing you couldn’t polish out if so desired, has an African Blackwood wedge. It’s not done a lot of work in its life. £25 on collection from south of Salisbury or posted at cost. SOLD - Pinnacle Honing Guide - SOLD Interesting...

soo… maybe the person doing that… might need a machine that does that kind of thing? Like a saw with a dado head? Or are you sticking to your router table philosophy no matter what?

correct, you didn’t say router table. The point is that different tools have different advantages and the advantages to one person, may be different to another, depending on what they want. If you get that, no further explanation is necessary, if you don’t, no further explanation is possible.

No no, I’m waiting for the router table solution…