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Thanks Bob - I’ve already started this actually. Interestingly, I needed to buy a couple of new Mortice chisels, and I bought elsewhere. Along with a couple of new router bits. That’s after spending £2,000 elsewhere last month on a table saw elsewhere. Shows what happens if you don’t look after...

Thank you everyone for your thoughts - I’ll have a good hard look at my technique first, as that’s the easiest thing to diagnose perhaps! As it happens. I have a big chunk of 30mm mdf hanging around as an off cut. That on a flat bench might be flat enough for dry lapping, I suppose.

Problem is that if I'm right, I need something longer than the plane to flatten it on... The plane is 560mm long... so finding something that's reliably flat, and that size, that isn't expensive, seems problematic.

Half thinking it would be cheaper just to buy a better quality jointer plane and hope that it's flatter!

Hi everyone I've got a No 7 from Axminster, and I've been using over the last 18 months to flatten large slabs and boards, but I haven't needed it to joint anything. I've been working on some toy boxes for my kids over the last few weeks and I've had to make some panels up and I've noticed...

@Peter Sefton It would ideally be the Jessem mast-r-lift iii. If I can find a way to easily fit it to some standard track, then that would be great. The track I currently have is the UJK combined mitre slot and t track, but it’s not routed in yet... It seems that the easiest option would be...

Thanks for the tips, Peter. Would it be possible to buy t track or mitre track bolts that would fit in to the handles on the fences? Most jig kits come with t track and mitre bolts - are the fence bolts M6 or M8 (or an imperial version that I might be able to get elsewhere? Otherwise, I think...

Peter - I’m building a router table in to my table saw and need a fence - the problem is that the side-mounted rails are off limits for me because they’ll interfere with my table saw’s rails. I’ll need the fence to fit to recessed track in the table top. The older Jessem fence seems to be able...

I have a Fusion 3 - it’s great. Very high quality. I’m delighted with it.

If I didn’t already have a big Axminster extractor filling up the space in my workshop, I would. Cracking deal and would look great next to my Laguna saw. Bad timing - I’d bit your hand off otherwise.

No, sorry. I’m not a maker other than what I’ve shown above. :-)

It’s toy boxes next for the kids, but then I’ve got a pile of ash to get through and a wall that needs a big fancy book case... going to do a star burst pattern on that one too, I think, but in a different way.

Thank you - it was a lot of work, but I’m really happy with it! I cut the veneers myself using a big band saw at the local woodworking college - I go there once a week for some supervised workshop time. I then cut them roughly to size using a jig saw, and then got them exact by running a router...

There’s one drawer that fills the whole of the left hand side of the carcass, and the right hand side is empty, with a sliding front that opens in front of the drawer on the left. There is a Blum runner on the drawer, to allow me to push the drawer front to get it to bounce back open, as I...

Right then. This is my second ever piece of furniture - two and a half hard weeks for meet a deadline. Pretty pleased with it - Glad to be having a week or two off. Is though! For the top I cut veneers using a band saw, and then the bottom and sides are standard veneers, all with chunky solid...

Interesting idea... The drawer fronts are wider than the voids for the drawers, so they overhang in to the central space slightly, allowing you to pull the drawers open at the sides (which is why I opted for Blum runners instead of just having the drawers fitted in to the space). When I get...

I made my first bench with 4x2, and decided I needed an assembly table with a Velchromat top for making larger pieces and using power tools on. The more I messed around with the design, the more complicated it became, and when I eventually built it, I made two further benches with laminated tops...

Thanks for your input. I did wonder about that. I’d sketched out various options from having a much smaller sub-structure but it didn’t seem as stable, and I’d also wondered about routing a small shadow gap around the sub-structure to make the top float a little. In the end, I went for speed...

The panels at the side of the void are two drawers. They’re on runners as I didn’t want visible handles and so I thought the would open better that way. The gap in the middle is for easy access storage. I’m not sure it was really the best option though... maybe next time I’ll do a full width drawer.