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Hi Andy this is a really good WIP. Recycling bits and bobs and all the extra bother and design constraints this causes makes this piece all the more interesting. Carry on the good work and please continue to ignore all the power tool fanatics. Gerard

Workshopheaven have good Swiss coping saw blades. Paul Sellers has discussed coping saws on his blog. He also has a film of him cutting dovetails for a box quick as a flash.

You might find answers to some of your problems on this thread. drum-sander-envy-t49205.html Have fun building Gerard

Even with a planer/thicknesser I like to true up rough saw timber by hand. That way I can skip the planer for long boards and just go straight to the thicknesser. So I can see the use of these ancient advanced winding sticks in my workshop. However not everyone likes to mess about with hand...

They are ingenious. Thanking for digging them up. Gerard

Hi Steve, Why not just dig a moat for security? With all the rain we have been having it should soon fill up. What about just leaving the door ajar at night but perching a bucket of panel pins on top of the door. Too mediëval? I used to love the bucket of water trick when I was a kid, that was...

Why not go Japanese style and have sliding doors?

Pauls Sellers' videos are watched by woodworkers around the globe. His approach is to show how you can get started with only a few tools and yet make quality work. Of course there are other ways to do things. That hardly matters here. I believe that Jacob and Tony are making fair points. But I...

Wow they are huge tables. And I thought I was in wth the big guys when I built my workbench. I suppose the size slows you down during building a project like this. Did you mark the parts so that the same pieces would be used to put the tables back together again? Or are you just so good that...

Hello Erik, There are a few specialist suppliers in the Netherlands but they are not near to Delft/Utrecht. Amsterdam has a specialist timber merchant, as does Arnhem. Arnhem also has the best handtool supplier http://www.baptist.nl in the country (and it is good but no bargins). You just...

Fortunately we all have different tastes. So not everyone is going to like these designs. These designers are very avant garde and this is a great thing for the UK. Why even contest the hours required to make these pieces when you stop and think about this is perhaps an irrelevant discussion...

To everyone annoyed by the price of this piece. You can say this is more than you can afford to pay for such a piece of furniture. However if you are not actually in the market for such a piece why complain about the price? As Woodcrafts has been kind enough to calculate for us this is not...

Inspirational craftsmanship. Tailormade shirts, suits and shoes are still made and sold though most people buy mass manufactured there still is a market for both. The same is true for furniture. I hope that these pieces are selling for at least double the figure that has been suggested here...

I also have this piece of kit. Translation below Bohrer = drilling Fraser = milling Holz weich = softwood Holz hart = hardwood Kunststoff ABS = Plastic ABS Kunststoff PC = Plastic PC Stahl= steel Guss = cast Messing = brass It is a nice bit of kit but the downside of this little machine is...

A good teacher is essential. If you can spare the time why don't you go to Paul Sellers for a weekend course. He will show you how to square up timber with a hand plane. It is true unless you are doing a lot of surfacing that a single hand plane can do it all and more. By the time you have set...

I have a secondhand scheppach and I waited for nearly 2 years to find one. If this is for your hobby I would say a good quality secondhand one is the way to go. I hand planed everything up to the point that I found a good planer-thicknesser for the right price. A higher spec planer has an...

A very nicely made box. The hinges look very smart with the addition of the stop. I have other old hinges with little flaps of brass inserted between the segments that act as a stop. However this solution is far more elegant. Your box really deserves a lining. The exterior promises so much.

Fantastic job. The grain is very pronounced. After a couple of years seasoning I would cut it nice and thin on my bandsaw and use if for panels on a cabinet or a segmented table top. Of course it would make terrific bowls or bandsaw boxes too. Magic. Stuff for making heirlooms.

Power to you Mark. Make sure you have a couple of narrow wedges and a hammer handy so that you can keep the saw blade free as you cut. Normally people say just let the saw do the work but I am afraid it might be an idea to get someone on the other end of that monster saw. I am very pleased that...

Why not use a big bow saw to cut up the root stump? Finding a big one commercially can be a problem but they are easy to rig up for yourself from a timber frame and with a metre length of 1 inch wide bandsaw blade. It will take a while to cut through but it won't waste much wood and it won't...