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I haven't used a professional sharpening service, but did a google search. Now if you search for sharpening services you get lots of hits for people who sharpen TCT circular saw blades etc. But if you search for hand saw sharpening you get some interesting options - for example Services »...

Yes that is quite right - chose ones that are bona fide Japanese. The ones I got have absolutely no English on the cardboard blade covers, and have the light coloured bound handles. Looks like they are forty to fifty pounds each. Craig

I have just trimmed 3mm off the bottom of an internal glazed door; the door jamb for the new flooring that was put down was quite a bit higher than the previous one. Because the cut was so little, a regular saw would cut too wide a for such a little amount to remove. So I used one of my...

The thing to do is to raise the grain by spraying with water, and then re-sand - or preferably use a cabinet scraper. If you don't do that, as soon as you apply the first layer of a finish, the grain will raise and you'll get a rough finish. But as Pete says, the ring structure is a feature of...

FWIW I built my Klausz design bench around 10 years ago. Beech top, and sapele underframe. Now the photos of Klausz on line show him next to his bench design with all sorts of exotic stuff like purpleheart, which is totally unnecessary. The trick to making a high quality bench is time, and the...

Might be worth phoning this company, and just asking the question Traditional Restoration - The Green Man Building Company - Norfolk & Suffolk . I spent half an hour taking to one of their guys on a really big job they were doing during a walk. They won't come cheap, but they might at least...

The red warning now covers most of the South of England. I'm due to lead a walking tour in the Costwolds this weekend, starting today. I've had to contact all the (paying) walking guests and cancelled today. So we'll start tomorrow when it will be a mere yellow.

One of the main attributes of cedar of lebanon is its ability to discourage clothes moths. The bottom and back of the drawers in chest of drawers I built for our bedroom are cedar of lebanon for that reason, and are unfinished for the clothes moth reason. If you are using it for a decorative...

However, back to the OP's needs. Three sources that I've used. First is Whitmores up near Leicester. You decide what you want and book an hour slot. Then an dedicated guy will unstack and restack timber to find the planks you want. Hardwood Timber Suppliers | UK & Online | Whitmore's Timber . I...

Without a scale, and comparison with other woods, that image is without context. Bu you are right - all wood has pores. It has to, otherwise it has no water transport.

I've bought oak from Deep in Wood Oxfordshire bespoke furniture Oxfordshire handmade furniture . They (well it is actually a one man band) specialize in oak, and supply it to other major wood yards like Whitmores up near Leicester. Last plank I bought, which was enough for a 400 x 400 x 80 mm...

Depends on how long the edge is. If small, regular block plane for along the grain and low angle block plane with a tight mouth for cross grain . If longer edges I'll move across to a #4, but probably still a low angle block cross grain. I've never used a scratch stock, but having seen those...

Well, some of you seem hell bent on permanently damaging your eyesight, or that of any family member that inadvertently comes into your workshop. Or anyone walking past your workshop windows. The Amazon CNC router with a 5.5W diode laser linked in a post above, and no primary safety whatever is...

Good grief. This sort of behavior is hazardous beyond anything they remotely understand. My original background was in laser development. Pulsed Nd:YAG. I once did the calculation that if you divided up a single 10ns pulse equally, there was enough to cause laser eye damage to the population of...

The other thing that is worth bearing in mind is eye safety. An industrial grade machine will have safety features such as interlocked access once the laser is operating. But the scary things you can buy from Amazon - diode lasers chucking out anything up to several tens of Watts - are a...

Good report here https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA410311.pdf, particularly on the difficulty of removing the stuff. There was an incident in 2000 when solar arrays were packed in protecting foam. The release agent for the foam was silicone oil, and this in a year of storage before installation...

FWIW silicone lubricants were used in the moving parts of space vehicles. That was until it crept across the optical assembly of one of the major science missions and rendered it partially blind. The darned stuff creeps. There was a standing order by ESA that all vehicles under assembly had to...

I've a Wadkin BRA, the old round arm version. The instruction manual is very detailed, when back in the day they supplied maintenance instructions (and a broken down assembly drawing with a parts number table). It says that bright parts should be given a thin coat of oil "to prevent rusting" and...

I was saying that I found the picture way back in this thread with the highly figured cabinet was shouty. Not you. Read my post again and you will see that.

If you look back I said that I found the cabinet that is the subject of this discussion shouty and not my cup of tea. How's that for an opinion. And no I don't say that everything from a maker is excellent. What I do appreciate is the philosophy that different makers apply. For example Kernov...