Search results

For an airing cupboard you can make a dado jig for a router and then just used bendy pine from Wickes or similar to make lattice shelves, it’s most gratifying and easy with a jig. The strength of your shelf will depend on the load you put on it (obviously), you can use much thinner ply and make...

Go for whatever power motor comes on the lathe you want. Remember that indicated power is usually electrical power not shaft power. Also, shaft power is torque x speed. If you need to take deep cuts (on a single speed motor, belt-drive lathe) drop the speed and then you have more torque, the...

Design out the corners they can get their teeth onto, or overlay with metal like aluminium then give them wood specifically to chew, fruit woods apparently are the thing, however as you’ve noted, they don’t seem to come to harm nibbling on anything else

I didn’t! That was you lot with your dumb decisions again, I made it pretty clear about the forbidden fruit directive, but would you listen? No freaking chance! And don’t you dare ask why I left it there in the first place along with the serpent, I don’t have to justify myself to my own...

I did! You just have to put a bit of effort in to complete the process, sometimes I despair at you lot.

The other thing you need to do is put a guard over the top and have you got a stop so you don’t push too far and have exposed blade coming out the back fence?

Slow cut, make sure everything is held tight as the teeth on an aluminium blade will be less aggressive, but should be fine. Get a new one soon after if you want a good finish again

Looks like British Cedar is western red cedar, grown in the UK, so why not?

Exactly, modern rubbish, it all went downhill after the pyramids

Bob, again with the common sense! Don’t you know old people lived hundred of years and they built the ark after all. The same people who are against modern materials are probably against the use of other modern things like high speed steel, the wheel and clean drinking water.

Come on Bob, get with the programme, why post something unless it’s a moan? You must know the form by now, but here’s a pro forma if it helps… This is terrible/awful/the worst thing that’s ever happen in my life. I remember back in the day (which could have been last week) you could buy...

A bit like ash

Cedar is lovely, if you can’t get/afford western red then cedar of Lebanon is much less expensive and easily available, though any cedar is very soft, especially till it has sat outside and hardened up a bit. I see your thinking regarding weight, there may be other ways to approach this as even...

D4 is a durability classification, not a drying time. If you want to slow an adhesive down, put it in the fridge before you use it and assemble first thing in the morning when the ambient temperature is lower. A longer open time is one option, the other is a faster assembly operation.

Cut off the infected part, treat the rest and check anything it’s been near

Yes, same thought /concern here, would like a sacrificial "nose" on the end, however your TCT saw teeth won't mind a gentle cut into the ali if it's carefully done. Overall, good though isn't it?

It's a generally considered fundamental of science that a single piece of evidence doesn't support an entire theory. I had some 19th century mahogany dining chairs which were in parts strips of mahogany glued to knotty pine, they'd been wobbly for the last 40 years at least, partially due to the...

I’d be very interested in how you find them, I thought of buying some for a trial but just looking at the picture they aren’t the quality of the much more expensive ones. The likes of neat hinges etc will be fine on a box that size

Heresy! Fetch the pitchforks! And make sure they’re the ones with wooden tines, none of those modern metal ones

Yep, we inherited some old metal cased circular saws in the 90’s, steel blades, none of this rubbish modern carbide nonsense, mostly burnt through the wood rather than cutting but did it with a cool blue glow as the motor and brushes sparked all over the place, the first one tripped the house...