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I have found this happens when the manufacturers change the drawer systems (runners, boxes etc) and forget to change the cabinet drilling. Mark W

yes I agree back to topic, but how did that happen! Mark

How did that happen then? Mark

Alf, according to my Collins Concise Dictionary it is spelt correctly. Mark

I copied this from Paul Sellers blog what do you think, is he right or completely wrong? Myth busting #2 Forget flattening water stones – hollow stones give perfect convex bevels No sharpening stone needs to be flat. For three decades woodworkers have been duped into believing that stones must...

Good book Andy, I think everyone should have a read. Mark W

Andy T, I think you mean David Pye.

I recently did two days with Tom kealy, see his website, He`s in Somerset so it depends how far you want to travel. he seems to charge the most reasonble rate £85.00 per day. Regards, Mark

I have just spent two days with Tom Kealy at his workshop, I wanted to learn the technique used by Williams and Cleal for the handles on their Reveal sideboard, I can thoroughly recommend Toms courses, which aren`t set courses, if you want to learn or make something in particular he will teach...

For sharpening its got to be David Charlesworths books, all of them. Mark w

woodbloke, Reading it back it was a harsh comment, in future I will be more careful, my thoughts and opinions are just that, mine. I would justify my comment but I do not wish to continue in a negative vain, I would just like to point out that it was jhwbigley`s acerbic comment...

Sgian Dubh, No wasn`t joking, so I just googled Piet Mondrian and De stilj movement. I`m not that surprised we haven`t covered it as it was an art movement and I`m on a furniture making course, maybe at level 3 where design is looked in more detail? Martin Lane has no input into...

moz, I`m still waiting to sell one, but then I`m still a student. I can show you a picture of a table I made with dovetailed drawers, once I`ve worked out how to get it on here. It was one of the pieces chosen by Martin Lane to go into the student exhibition at the Court House Gallery...

jhwbigley, Nope, don`t know what the inspiration for the cabinet was (ignorance can be bliss I`ve just discovered), yes you can buy openers for traditional drawers without handles and no brass handles would not improve it, a dust sheet over it maybe! Mark White

jhwbigley, I`m not too sure what point you are trying to make with your pictures, I think you just proved my point! Sgian Dubh, 80 kilos in a drawer thats 12 stone 8lbs, I think you`re trying too hard to prove a point, what would be kept in this drawer, a body...

Sgian Dubh, Your description, plywood drawers tongued and grooved is not high quality work, it is work made to a price, it may last, it may fulfill its function, that is what it is functional, but it is not high quality. It`s like comparing Chippendale furniture to Utility...

Tom, I agree with you, but to me kitchens are not fine furniture, metal runners in a kitchen are fine. Like you I don`t believe they should be used in a piece of furniture such as a chest of drawers. Sgian Dubh, What do you mean you have developed an open mind to...

Chris & Tom, No we have not been "taught" about runners and I`m glad. I am a kitchen fitter by trade, and I also make kitchens, kitchens are where metal drawer glides are at home, my knowledge of them is quite extensive. In my opinion they are a short cut, a cop out and no...

I`ve just completed level 2 City & Guilds furniture making at Bridgwater College, we are given a cabinet project in the first year, this has a door and drawer, and a table project in the second year, this has a drawer. The drawers in both are traditionally made and fitted as per Alan Peters...

Probably more sound than a conventional pension.