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Ah, that's exactly what I was looking for! Many thanks, to you and to woodspinner6!

Hi folks, I have a Mirka DEROS, and with it came boxes of 60, 120 and 180 150mm disks. However, for some projects, I'd like to be able to go up to higher grits. I'd guess that 1 or perhaps 2 of each grit would do me for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, it looks like the world mostly wants...

On a tangentially related note, I've found a silver sharpie invaluable for writing the contents of black plastic boxes on all sides of those boxes, so I can see what's where no matter how they're stacked up:

Oh, now I feel silly! I think it's more like a split pin than a nail, to stop the end coming off, but it was indeed just one of the legs of that catching on the vice. I must have knocked it somehow, and bent it in the wrong direction. Now bent back, and vice is operating smoothly again :-)...

Hi all, I have a Paramo No 50 vice, and every half rotation of the handle there is increased resistance, and then a click. I can't see anything that would cause it, so I imagine that there's something inside the main body of the vice, with the quick release mechanism etc. I believe that if I...

Thanks, I think this is all making a lot more sense now!

Ah, I think I finally get it! What I actually want is to put the lid into a groove in all 4 sides thus: with a little space for expansion, such that the fit is tight enough that it can't move around (I guess I may as well glue it in one spot too), right?

Hi folks, I want to make something that is essentially a box, and am trying to understand what measures I need to take against wood movement. I wonder if anyone can help me please? In case it matters, the light wood will likely be poplar/tulip (as I want to do pyrography on it); I haven't...

Thanks everyone for the advice! I'm flattered that you think I could do a decent job with a spoke shave, but I have my doubts! I decided to set it up on the router table to see how it felt, and trying it out with a test piece it was a lot less dramatic than I expected. I guess the much smaller...

Ah, thanks! I've never used hot melt glue, but I'm intrigued by glue that can resist the force a router throws at it, but which can then just be peeled off! So now that's a microjig and a glue gun on the Christmas wishlist...the only problem being that I'm trying to make pre-Christmas...

Forgive my ignorance, but what would I be gluing to what?

Hi folks, I'd like to round over the top edges of this softwood: I have an arris roundover router bit, and if it simply had straight sides, then I think the long edges would be no problem with a couple of push sticks on the router table, and the short edges would probably also be OK with the...

My word, this thread has been way more informative than I expected when I started it! That's why mine are rubbish softwood :) I have a mix of second hand heads from ebay; that one's a Record one. To be honest, I'm not sure the quality of the wood is to blame here. I think I was just too...

Interesting, thanks. Is it stronger because the grain of the dowels is in a different direction?

Oh, I assumed you were meant to put it close enough to the end that you could spin the handle freely, rather than having to keep sliding the bar back and forth through the hole.

"Don't worry", they said, "the clamps will pull it together", they said. Never mind, my bench will just have slightly splayed legs! Perhaps I can pass it off as better for stability or something.

Ah, I see: Pith in the middle of the tree, then heartwood, then sapwood. Got it! Wikipedia tells me that ash has a relatively high sapwood to heartwood, although as these are pretty wide boards I guess they're more likely to include heartwood. Thanks too for confirming the species for me!

Hi folks, With the end of my bench build in sight, I went ahead and ordered some beech for the vice jaws. You can never have too much wood, so I also got a piece of ash to take me up to the free shipping level. Unfortunately, I ordered both in the same size, and only when they arrived did I...

But that's for a single pass, isn't it? My question is how deep can I actually go in total. That page describes the bit as having a 12mm blade height, so 12mm is clearly fine. But it also has a 50.8mm total shaft length. Does that mean that I can cut up to 50.8mm deep in total, with multiple...

Hi folks, I'm trying to understand how deep you can go with a router; I wonder if anyone could help me please? If I had a T4U3000 then I believe I could make up to a 12mm deep groove in the middle of a piece of wood by simply plunging and then moving sideways (although doing this in multiple...