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My workshop would barely fit a skoda felicia in (OP will know the size, they are as common in Slovakia as they are here). I have a second hand Proma bandsaw that does the basic things I need it to do. A friend has the Proma PT which he is happy with. I have a track saw, a lunchbox PT, a 30 year...

A lot of folks will say this is the wrong attitude, but I have found that most magazines will offer a digital only subscription, usually with a very cheap first month. If you can avoid any auto subscription options, and / or are willing to fight your way through un-subscribing, and assuming you...

That sort of smoke definitely sounds like a burned out motor. (How does smoke sound???). It might be worth contacting the manufacturer, sometimes it is possible that there was a known, low risk issue that was placed on the market. In such cases replacements can be surprisingly forthcoming. If...

You might want to start looking at making some of these tools yourself. PaskMakes scrapwood challenge has some nice ideas for example. Making thing square can be as simple as marking a 345 triangle on a piece of man made stock and tuning in your hand made tools that way.

For those of you who can get them, (I am guessing mainland EUrope here), I find the Extol Premium bar clamps to be very useful. Both the trigger part and the other part move which I personally find to be a very useful feature. They also have nice large pads too.

No 2 son got a mattress as a christmas present a year or so ago. Of course, it was cheap because it was not a standard size, so I had to make the frame. To make the side rails detachable, I used mortise and tenon joints with two hefty drawbore pins on each. These went all the way through, and...

I have my woodworking as a part time, cash only (or chocolate) sort of thing. I still work as an engineer, even though that is getting tedious and stressful at the moment. I have a few small things that I make that I am able to shift to or through colleagues at work, but that is all I am looking...

Here in Cz, there is almost a reliance on the 'unofficial' recyclers cleaning up any scrap. It is more often being taken to a scrap merchants in exchange for beer money (beer is cheaper than water here), rather than being recycled in the way we are talking about here. There have been cases where...

Have a search for bench bull, that will also provide some inspiration. There are a lot of different designs, and it will depend what sort of woodwork you want to do at work.

A friend of mine had good experiences with fineboxhardware, mentioned above. Not online, but maybe worth a look is Robert Dyas. Small brass hinges for boxes, I try to buy a few each time I am over there.

I agree with HOJ, definitely get cheap for the first chair (and if you can, in the interests of repeatability, create some jigs and templates. I have done this for my chairs, and it works wonders), see how it fits. Personally, I have tried adirondack style chairs, and while they are comfortable...

Box made from scrap dunnage and SPF fence slats, with a pebble from a Greek beach as the knob to lift the lid up. Lid pivots on brass screws with the heads cut off. Finished with BLO.

Living in a house with meter thick rubble walls, floor standing is the only option I ever have. You either drill in to incredibly hard rock, or softer than butter mortar (and then the drill bit hits the boulder behind that and you have a wall that looks like Dart Vader was practicing his light...

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I have a UK metal body socket box with a short length of EUro plug cable screwed to the wall, that I can plug directly in to the mains here for work in the workshop. I have a couple of UK multi socket extension leads that I have changed the plug on so that things that I buy in the UK for the...

Found a picture of mine in action. As I said. not pretty, but pretty functional.

Definitely. Small simple projects that can be picked up and put down. I find that the hardest part is actually getting started. Once I do, the work day recedes and I get in to it, then realise it is nearly midnight :cool:

A bit of dowel to match the dog holes you have / will have, and a bar piece. Drill a hole in the bar piece, less than ninety degrees to the bar end (The video shows this a lot better than I can explain it.). You can shape the bar like shown in the video, or just glue a block and some cork or...

I made wooden hold fasts out of scrap, they work perfectly well, so don't feel you need to buy the metal ones.

I agree with most everyone here. Having one and not mounting it seems rather pointless. They are useful, even if it's for helping to hold the fixtures you see 'no vise' users holding with hold fasts. You do have choices where and how to mount it, and it would be those that you should look at. I...