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Ah ... yes, - "What's a little wet to a water rat" A neighbouring village, Eglwyswrw, nearly broke the record for the largest number of rainy days in a row.

If the OP is hoping to avoid catches when turning between centres - then a pair of ring centres is all that is needed this will also allow the work to easily be reversed as with the steb centres.

No , not the rock group, but the weather. Everything here is completely sodden. The garden path down to the chickens is flooded, as is around the back of my workshop. The end of the field behind this is also under water. The lawn is now a quagmire where I have paddled, to and fro, between the...

The first bench I ever made has the vice installed on the right hand side. It was a remake of one of the ones we had at college. Being right handed, I discovered very early on that the vice got in the way of my hips when I was using it to hold wood whilst planing. However it never proved...

I find it a lot easier to centralise a mortice chisel between two marked lines than to carry out this same operation off the side of a single line. It is also handy when you are using a morticing machine as it helps you to keep track of whether the chisel is cutting in the right place on all...

Heaven preserve us from - The Sound of Music. And, yes, it was on the other night. :giggle:

You're making the assumption here that all tenons are central to the stock, and that all stock is exactly the same thickness throughout. It is safest to use face sides and face edges as reference points at all times. For this reason it is easiest to use a mortice gauge, though you could easily...

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Confusingly it is often sold as emery cloth/paper now, when used for metal working. If you look up under this heading on ebay, you will easily find 1000 grit

If the blades are not at the correct height in relation to the cutter block, then any timber passed through the thicknesser won't have a top parallel to the bottom. despite the blades having been adjusted, to cut perfectly in relation to the top outfeed table.

Perhaps the site could supply us with an additional " I'm offended " emoji. Then we could signal our distaste and move on, without the need for protracted discussions, as to who is occupying the moral high ground.

Try googling reciprocating file there are a few much cheaper ones listed.

That is really nice - an acceptable gift. Mind you, I dread to think what the lining would look like after I had used it for a while. :unsure:

Might be related to "July" Andrews :) - Though one could be a bit forgiving, as Eamonn is just Edmund, (which does end in D), spoken with an Irish accent.

The few times I have used Sycamore I have found it frustratingly " cotton wooly" to machine and rout. to the extent of getting fluffy areas irrespective of the direction of machining. My experience, however, has been with thinner stock, so I have no idea how dimensionally stable it is in...

It really is a case of "horses for courses" and does depend on what class of table you are making. I don't think pine would in any way, be suitable for say, a board- room, table, or even a smart, dining table. The problem with some finishes on softer woods like pine is that they are...

Beware! he also has a sideline with Walkers crisps. :)

For kitchen/farmhouse, tables it would be quite normal to use pine The late Alan Peters talked of using Whitewood for table tops. I adopted this idea for a dresser I made for my old kitchen. The idea however was not to finish them , but to keep them scrubbed and bleached. The trouble with pine...

I've been trying to wrack my brain to try and remember where I saw a a complete description of how to veneer a Bombe Chest. It could have been in Charles Hayward's "Practical Veneering" This might well offer a few pointers as to how the job could be tackled. From what I remember it seemed to...

Judging by the edge shown in the photo , is this not more likely to be something like float glass, rather than laminated or toughened?. I think if it were toughened it would have to have been specially ordered and then needn't have been any more than 6mm. Laminated, though available in 8mm (...