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You can also paint lime -plaster walls inside the building with Casein Distemper, ( Farrow and Ball), or Clay Paint , (Earthborn). This allows a far greater choice of colours. The only downside with using colours, other than White, is that they do get more noticeably dark and patchy with any...

I suppose the reasoning is that if it hasn't failed over the several hundred year period in which the building has been in existence - then it is hardly likely to fail if replaced like -for -like. Jacob's approach, though a minimal intervention one, certainly compromises the history of a...

How can one insulate the likes of Anne Hathaway's cottage without compromising its looks and history? I guess the answer is - you can't. 🤔

With all that sapwood it could be Yew.

The sort answer is - yes.... but then I probably need my head read. :LOL: I also ,have an interest and enjoy working on old buildings. I'm lucky enough to have some of the skills needed to do the work myself. But, if you don't have these then it could prove costly. Especially if remedial...

You can buy the sill. ( Along with most of the other components for making the sashes.) :giggle: If you want to do-it yourself, then an electric hand-plane is good for removing most of the stock from the sloping sill. If you are going the all hand-tool, route, then you will need a combination...

These beautiful and elegant solutions for tool storage are momentary snapshots in time and make no real provision for change - and things do change . I would be inclined to agree with @Derek Cohen (Perth Oz), about it being done in retirement. It would be a lot easier to curate ones tool...

A lovely bit of 'tool nostalgia'. I remember the Footprint brand . I still have a few augers made by them. Their stuff was perfectly adequate but was never quite as refined, or expensive , as their competitors.

Hmm .... I used to work with Perspex, but in the days before superglue. In this instance I would have drilled , threaded and countersunk. the screw . The problem is obviously the superglue which is a form of Acrylic itself, though it doesn't seem to have reacted very well with the Perspex disc...

Stainless are notorious for their heads snapping off. It is best to drill a pilot hole for hardwood , and don't use too long a screw. Also handy to put that last little bit in by hand, as the heads can also chew out. It isn't recommended that you use stainless screws in conjunction with...

Yes... a bog standard piece of kit for going from square to round on spindle work, Usually the chunkier the timber the wider the gouge tends to be

What used to hold me up, making Victorian 4-pane,l doors, was the bottom and middle rails. These invariably had to be glued up the day before to ensure I got the correct widths. What revolutionised the process, for me, was using PU glue to joint these rails, which finally made it possible to...

I think one has to place the Flinn/Garlick workshop in context. In the past a lot of these workshops were interdependent. and not everything was tackled in -house , as it would be in a factory. With the closing of tool works in Sheffield this has had to change, with things that were separate...

The simple solution with wood waste is to burn it. A neighbouring joiners workshop, close to my old one. had an enormous wood burning stove. Fortunately, he had enough under cover space to store the off-cuts, sawdust and shavings he produced, throughout the year. Also, he had invested in a...

Mark it with a sliding bevel and gauge. Remove the majority of the stock with your electric planer and finish with a hand plane, That is quite an expanse of timber to have exposed on the outside of a greenhouse roof. A bit of a hostage to fortune if it's not capped with a flashing.

Available on Etsy £150, elsewhere as low as £65.

I recently replaced my Faithfull double sided stone 400/1000, as after about 5 years it had worn out. I still think that with regard to cost and useful size, they are a very good option.

I think @deema may have posted this a couple of days ago. It is interesting, though the presenter was relentlessly "Tiggerlike". There is another video of the factory, on YouTube snowing the process of making a saw. It was a lot more along the lines of "How It's Made". In fact it could well be...

On my model the rod is , in fact, straight, and the hole it goes into is angled. Yours could well be bent because the hole is drilled square and not at an angle.

There should be enough play on the head of the clamp to allow it to clamp the wood squarely. I would make sure by undoing the assembly and greasing the joint. Also it helps to raise the wood up so the clamp plate is operating over its whole surface on the piece you are working on - not just...