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It is an easy target to take a pop at a long dead maker who can't fight back. Why not have a go at Alan Peters or Tage Frid while were on a dead cabinetmaker downer?

That particular piece by Krenov is not my cup of tea. It is quite shouty. But he worked on commission, and if that is what the customer wanted, that is what he built. Mozart worked in the same way, and composed some distinctly strange pieces - like several works for glass harmonium. For example...

You guys think you could make cabinets as well as Krenov? Well good on you.

It is a cabinet by one of the all time greats, James Krenov. The legs are typical of his work, and are known as ballet dancer legs. Probably built in the 1960's. http://jameskrenov.com/

Holtey has remanufactured to Norris A13 . But his precision made dovetailed steel planes are far too hot for anyone's pocket other than the ultra-rich. We're talking typically 6k as an example for any of his planes, and I shudder to think what the A13 price might be. This is typical of the...

Piston fit drawers, which Cosman touts as a desirable thing are nothing of the sort at all. As soon as humidity changes they stick fast. I have read that Alan Peters stopped doing them because having delivered a piece he was endlessly called back to sort out the sticking drawers.

I recall him talking about a full handmade kitchen design and installation in cherry that he did - traditional hand cut dovetails on the many drawers. He got around the nightmare of blind dovetails by splitting the drawer front. Did through dovetails and then glued the front back on over the...

We don't have appliance insurance. Our local company - Churches of Steventon - Home Page - F.Church have always come through for us. For example a frozen pipe with a catastrophic leak, fortunately outside in the porch, less than 20 minutes they were there. Last call out three months ago was the...

I have a three-phase round arm Wadkin BRA. Although I have a rare riving knife (for some reason best known to eBay I bought two of them!). But I have only ever used it for crosscutting, with a negative rake Atkinson Walker blade. I've set it up for a precise 90 degree cut, since that is mostly...

Quite. I looked at the DeWalt radial arm saw and noted that a risk assessment was needed. Heaven knows what they would make of my Wadkin three phase radial arm saw! But I learnt to use machine tools safely at school at the turn of the 70's, and that has served me well over the decades. We had...

There is always a sad story behind liquidation auctions alas, for directors and out of work staff. And having attended a creditors meeting held by the liquidators for a company that folded owing me several k, the previously tough directors that I'd dealt with looked ashen. Liquidating a company...

I faced the track on mine with 1mm thick PTFE, stuck down with double sided tape. The plane glides very nicely along that without much friction. But you need to retract the blade, try a cut - nothing. Advance just a hair - nothing. Repeat until it just starts to cut with a zzk sound and you are...

I've no problem with that - like I said there are many definitions of magic mix! I guess the other slow drying oil is boiled tung, which might be an alternative to boiled linseed.

Dunno; Just saying what Chris used. But interesting that yours also has Danish oil in it. I like the addition of genuine turpentine in yours (note to self - must buy some to replace mine, which has degraded to a smelly brown mess). Difficult to get hold of pure ethanol now. It always includes...

I'd start with magic mix. There are umpteen recipes for this, but the one the guy who taught me cabinetmaking (I'm an amateur at this!) was mainly a professional antique furniture restorer. He trained at Oxford Brooks. His restoration process was to leave any wear and tear that had been picked...

I have one of these, and excellent they are too. I can attest to the sharpness of the blades though. While cleaning mine from wood dust, I caught an edge with my finger, and lost a chunk of skin in an instant.

I bought a vinyl record from a shop near Glasgow. It was posted by Hermes on 15th November this year; tracking said that it was indeed dropped off. And there it stuck. After three weeks I contacted the shop and pointed them at the tracking information. They refunded the price without any messing...

I have an oilstone in a nice wooden box, hardly used. Perhaps it was just me not using it right - buy I always had the problem with oil transferring from my fingers to whatever I was working on. So I'm a bit of a slave to water stones. Quick wipe of the hands, job done. Cosman uses a bench...

I guess it was probably down to the state of the blade :), but I certainly remember it being used totally unattended. Yes - the oil had a characteristic smell. I toyed for a while about buying and restoring one. Perhaps the smell was more to do with the oil going off - like the white cutting...

I've kept out of posting to this long and winding thread, so I thought I'd go back a bit. At school in the 60's and early 70's we had a woodworking room with benches and Record vices, and a lathe with a big sanding disc on the end. A metalworking room with lathes, pillar drill, forge etc. And...