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I'll run at odds to all the other answers, so far. As someone who spends the majority of his time on builds and fit-outs, I'd say the same as a lot of my colleagues, namely for fixing skirting boards, etc into position with screws you'll ideally want to sink the head of the screw under the...

A man after my own heart. I agree that for installation work a block plane and a #5 was the way to go until we got affordable power planers. It was all about weight, bulk and utility - still is, really

"Anyone used a radial arm saw for ripping lengths of timber?", yes, me, once, and that was enough!

They are actually a slightly awkward shape, Jacob, so if someone has put up an accurate drawing that you can download, print-out and use as a template (maybe by cutting it out with a pair of scissors?) then "fair play" to him I say

And the saga continues.... Nice safe bandsaw usage (not!) and then back to the exposed blade on the circular saw (and as a lowly carpenter why is it that people insist on using sleds when a miter saw is safer?) At least he isn't climb cutting with the router. I often wondered why you needed a...

But don't be in the least bit surprised if you are turned away, especially from the bigger jobs. To get onto a job run by even a small to medium-sized contractor these days you need to hold a green CSCS "Operatives Card". Not difficult to get, but does require attending a one-day safety training...

I was taught that you should almost always push the router away from you - pull it towards you and have a slip and you risk getting a chest or groin full of spinning cutter, which really makes it a questionable approach. Even internal cuts are safest done pushing the router in front of and away...

As I think I said earlier the Trend jigs will also work with a 20mm bit and a 24mm guide bush to give you the 10mm radius curve that you need for radiused hinges - that's how we deal with the radiused hinges on commercial jobs. Use that lots of times. The important thing is the difference in...

I naturally assumed as this was a thread primarily about wood machining, that we'd got back on topic. On the subject of the HSE (in the UK) they not only publish leaflets, but they also put them up on line - WIS16 is the one for table saws, but the relevant list for WW machinery is here. Some of...

All these years I've been living in an alternative reality....

That's the main setting for them - I think it's a cost/efficiency thing in the main, but also square corners are less likely to be done as neatly when you have teams installing in quantity at speed As to why they are less common, I honestly can't say, but a bugbear of mine is how inefficient...

Commercially made radiused hinges have a more or less standard radius of 10mm in Europe/UK, so if you are matching existing or using a router jig (which is surely what they were designed for) it makes sense to find a product which is ready to use out of the box, does it not? They are available...

Try Carlisle Brass. Generally good, architectural quality, if not the cheapest and they do radiused butts. BTW standard radius is 10mm on this sort of stuff which means that if you are using Trend standard jigs you need a 24mm guide bush and a 20mm straight cutter

My missus would say that it's proof that men cannot multitask... :ROFLMAO:

Maybe for hand tool work, but for wood machining there are far more terrible and downright dangerous examples on YouTube than there are good ones. One of the difficulties with the Internet is sorting the wheat from the chaff - and there's way more chaff than there is wheat

Try a T5 - that side handle makes them far easier to use

So are you saying that when i was going to college to do wood machining they were diddling me? :mad:

Sounds a lot like the guys we get coming to us these days. "Do you know how to use xxxxx?", "Yes" - then half an hour later you find them doing something stupid like pulling a router towards themselves (i.e. climb cutting). Some days....

Certainly the most commonly found - but in the past it was pushed by Stanley, et al as the "homeowners friend"

I don't believe it!