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"Borderline racist" how you come to that conclusion I really don't know, fact is as a manufacturing nation the Chinese are totally irresponsible, look at there polluted waterways through solar panel production. We all need to be more conscious of where and who we are buying from, Matthew at...

I made 6 sets of these table legs for a customer (he makes intarsia table tops amongst other things), I have a name stamp and I applied it to the top inside face of one of the legs on each set. He paid for them and collected them.A day or so later I had a phone call from him, "Mark, I have...

If you want a big square for using across wide panels, I've been using a roofing square with a pair of stair gauges, both reasonably priced.

Thanks for all the replies, particularly D_W, that was an education right there. What a great resource this forum is. Inspector, I'm not looking to replace any blades as such but am after some additional blades, I have Lie Nielsen and Veritas planes both of which have A2 blades which are quite...

I've been looking at replacement plane irons or blades, (whichever you prefer) in particular Hock plane blades which are 01 tool steel and Axminster Rider blades which are 01 spring steel, would someone shed some light on which would be better, judging by the price it may be the Hock tool steel...

Totally agree with Jacob, I think the only time a straight cutting edge comes onto play is when edge planing two boards back to back, the error in "out of square" is cancelled out.

I remember watching a David Barron YouTube video about this, he had a very simple method for this, look it up. On a slight tangent, I wouldn't have a workbench with through tenons coming through the top, at some point they will be proud of the top and will require planing down probably annually...

Some recommendations, Rob Cosmans first dovetail DVD, read Alan Peter's method of cutting dovetails, it is on the internet if you search for it, sawcut to sawcut joinery and an excellent method of marking out using dividers, this is the method Cosman uses in his DVD, I believe David Charlesworth...

Aren't the handles Bubinga?

Tage, would you give some idea of the starting wage and what it could rise to please.

I went to Axminster Power Tools to check out what they had on display, this was two years ago, they had a couple of Makitas, to me it looked like they would have a problem tilting in one direction, it looked like one of the sliding bars was in the way which decreased its cutting capacity, I...

The Dewalt 305 mm is the best sliding chop saw in my opinion, I've owned a Makita, a couple of Bosch saws and a Hitachi, the Dewalt is head and shoulders above the others.

Metric would be very tight.

0.070 gap around doors, I thought for a minute you were measuring in metric. 😂

I bought a couple of these DC Marking Knife a few years ago, easy to sharpen with the DC jig. They have gone up in price though, I think they were around £20 each when I purchased mine, didn't come with the wooden holder back then.

Good tip, I'll remember that.

Me too, I bought a set of turning chisels on the strength this.

I have a set of six Robert Sorby bevel edge chisels, I've had them for about six years, they are my site chisels and have had a bit of a hard life. Recently the top ferrules came off five of the chisels, I guess it's because the Boxwood handles had shrunk, anyway I kept using them and eventually...

A Cabinet Makers Notebook, just because it's a lovely book, all three of David Charlesworth's books, the first two for tool preparation and methods and the third for a list of essential, quality tools.

I've been a subscriber to F&C for about eight years I think, for me it was at it's best under Colin Eden-Eadon, Derek Jones is a nice bloke, I met him once, but the direction he has taken the magazine in is not for me, too many American contributors, too much of the auction and antiques stuff...