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You might like to try someone like W. Habberley-Meadows in Birmingham, Wright's of Lym (in Cheshire) or A. S. Handover of Highgate for signwriter's paints which are high pigment content, very durable and retain their brilliance for much longer than conventional paints (if you've ever seen old...

Well anyone who has been here for a while will know my thoughts on this one (if not, please see my many earlier posts on table saws and kickback, etc). I am in complete agreement with Sgain Dubh and Niki. If at all possible use a table saw with a short position rip fence, riving knife and crown...

Negative rake blades are generally only suitable for use in overhead saws where, as George N says. There's an earlier thread here which discusses the why's and wherefores in detail, including some rather natty drawings (if I say so myself). That's not to say that you can't use a negative rake...

Tommo's right. There wasn't a Capri with a "wrong way" sloping rear window, and as it was 1967 (2 years before the "mk1" Capri was introduced) it must have been a Consul Capri. My old man owned a 105E Anglia (horrid little tin box) whilst an uncle had the much larger Consul Classic 315 (rotbox)...

I'd agree with you that common sense is not so common. And as someone who periodically has to do work on sites (I've got my CSCS, full PPE, etc) I'm always amazed at (a) the stupidity of some construction workers (b) the naivety of the management on some sites and (c) the complete idiocy of the...

Unfortunately the collets in Bosch routers are proprierary items and are unique to Bosch as far as I am aware. They look similar to the deWalt DW625 ones but the seating angles are apparently different, so you are probably stuck with buying from Bosch. Scrit

I think that is very true. Having lived in the east I can well remember the "tool divide" between the more German-style tools (mainly saws and chiseld) we could buy in places like Nijmegen, Arnhem and Hengelo and what was available in the Randstadt. For me it was a doddle to pop over the border...

Well I did have to sweat over the questions, so I should hope so! If anyone is interested the Crimbo Quiz is in two parts, Part 1 and Part 2. I was going to do more, but at that point my PC died :twisted: Scrit

Perhaps it is truer to say that Norris started out as a later copyist of the already established Spiers planes and then improved on the design. Don't forget that other planemakers also made this style of infill plane, most notably Alex. mathieson of Glasgow, Edward Preston of Birmingham, William...

Unfortunately not. I'm a Mod over at Woodwork UK and I'm afraid that's where my main efforts needs must will stay for the meantime. I actually did a big quiz over Christmas over there which was tremendous fun, at least until my PC died! With the number of trade guys we have on it was exceedingly...

Bandsaw makers should be able to cut coil stock into lengths for you, the problem will be how to drill into tempered steel to make the fixing holes. I'll therefore suggest a couple of alternatives. Firstly Ulmia hand frame saws are still made (and there should be an importer in the Netherlands...

Yes. I've replaced several. Personally I'd avoid the sprung designs so popular in the USA. They make for extra resistance when passing work across and always seem to leave a lot more of the blade exposed than the British-pattern bridge guard (not crown guard, BTW). The design of guard for your...

Stuart Spiers is known to have made planes from about 1840 onwards, although earlier planes were screwed together rather than rivetted. Rivetting is believed to have come in some time in the 1850s (making the mitre plane a later one). Sometime around 1870 Spiers gave up his trade as a...

With the greatest of respect and without wishing to cause offence none of the staff of WWUK were banned or excluded from UKWS - as I'm sure my post here will show. For the record we are JFC, Dom Valente, Andy, Davy Owen and myself, Scrit. As for what folk have invested I think you'll find our...

If you have a Robinson, David, can it take a 1-1/4in blade? If it's a TD/E, TD/T, EY/E, EY/T or YD/T then it should be able to tension a thicker blade such as a Lenox Trimaster III TCT 2 to 3tpi vari-pitch hook form on a 1-1/4in body. The variable pitch reduces the harmonics dramatically...

Hi Roger They really do stink to high heaven. For less smell go for a propane space heater, but whatever you do try to get a unit with a regulator which allows you to turn the thing down - there's nothing more annoying than continually having to start and stop an over large heater Scrit

Hopefully I and/or my skin are hopefully thicker than that, Grahame. It was not a specific comment, nor was it based solely on my own experience, as I'm sure some of the other trades contributors would agree. It was a general comment, so there was no need to apologise. As a case in point the...

I started this thread because I was concerned about losing one of our more colourful, and despite snide comments by some, one of our more experienced and knowledgeable members. I think I can safely say that I and a number of other professional woodworkers on UKWS have become somewhat...

I'm with Paul on this one. Personally I don't like installing oak worktops because people don't maintain them and if wet steel/cast-iron pans, knives or utensils are left on them in an area where the finish is thin or absent you can get indellible black stains (ferric oxide, caused by reaction...

Altogether a bit of a compromise. It would be useful were both a bull nose and a shoulder required in a "working out" kit to reduce weight, but if you're taking that sort of tool onto site you've obviously done something wrong in the workshop! Scrit