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Paint from manufacturers like Little Greene has become hellishly expensive, with some colours being well over £100 for 5 litres. I know to my cost as I purchased a couple of 5litre cans of their " Intelligent Emulsion" in March of last year. o_O My main problem is that I need so much of it...

"Blwyddyn newydd dda" to everyone.

Thanks for your response. As I am doing the work myself, I would only be saving on time rather than money if I chose to go down the spraying option. I can only really cut the cost if I can bring the price of the materials down. 6 x 5 litres of the paint you are contemplating using would set me...

Everything is relative , bur silly cheap it isn't, especially when I need to purchase 30 litres. This is an exercise I have carried out over the past fifteen years at roughly 4 year intervals. Decent paint is one of those things that has gone up in price, more so than many other things. I can...

This coming year I have to repaint the house, And , I'm on the lookout for a good masonry paint in a Cornish Cream colour. None of us can be oblivious to the rise in cost of paint over these last few years, so purchasing it in 5 litre containers at between £25. and £ 35 a pop, is no longer an...

Linseed oil, on plywood, in an extremely windy and ,exposed location - what could possibly go wrong? :giggle:

A nice old " Gentleman's" chest you have there. It's interesting that the label lists "turnscrews" not screwdrivers, and a "bevil" not a bevel.

I saw the news item about the Swedish turbine the other day. It was only the tower and not the turbine blades. There was a fairly significant saving in carbon, compared to using steel, but there was no reference to what the very outer, surface coating was - the bit that made it water and...

I have seen chainsaws adapted to cut vertically. These were being used to cut the outer profile of curved oak beams. I dare say these could be used for the same purpose, though you would need a short enough blade. or steel armour around your midriff.:giggle:

The riving knife has to be fractionally smaller than the kerf otherwise the saw will bind, I can't see that a 0.28 mm difference is significant enough to cause problems.

I have been at the point of purchasing a bobbin sander over many years. I have a nice old Carroll bobbin that I use on the pillar drill, but it won't do when I need smaller diameters. I think I should have given in gracefully and bought one years ago. after all they don't take up that much room...

The Trend set linked by @Phil Pascoe seems to be quite a good call. These will no doubt be generic cutters made in the Far East, but if Trend are prepared to stake their reputation by selling them, then they are likely to be basic, but okay. And, at £ 36.95, a real bargain, even if some of the...

Before I retired, I always took this full week off work, After boxing day there was no hurrying back to work for a few days, and then being off again on New Year's day. I used to take this opportunity to avoid my customers, unlike the rest of the year when I could easily be receiving calls just...

What a pain , you have my sympathy. One of the legacies of my workshop being flooded, twice, is is that I now have most of my machines and cupboards raised up on concrete blocks. As I am quite tall, this suits me fine as they are at a much more workable height. Most bits and pieces I have...

You are probably not steaming the inlays for long enough, for them to be fully pliable, Things take a lot more steaming than one would think. At this stage where they are completely floppy the strips will, most likely, be too hot to handle except with gloves. Another method is to soak the...

I don't think all of Europe is under water. The north of Italy seems to be experiencing wildfires 🤔

I am guilty of having at least 4 workshop projects on the go - and some of them are going take quite a while to complete so I really must prioritise which of them to tackle first. Of course, there are always the other jobs to do in the garden and the outside of the house needs painted this...

Sadly she is no longer with us...

The grammar police have prevailed :giggle: "Now God is in his heaven and all is right with the world"

But at least it has a vowel :)