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It's something of a cop-out for tool dealers and resellers to simply add their cut of the profit to an item that isn't really in a fit state to work properly. What else would you buy that wasn't in a fit condition to be used without significant buyer work to make it functional? In most cases...

Here's an option - an expensive one but a goodly dollop knocked off in their promotion: A Festool site saw of high quality, with a decent cutting capacity, a sliding carriage and that Yank sawstop tech to stop you cutting orf your fingers just to annoy the NHS. :giggle...

If you ever want to make a large bed with 4 inch square posts, a full size external door and frame or a variety of other larger items, the ability to cut 3 - 4 " is useful. However, a smaller saw can still achieve cross cuts in thicker stock if you can flip the workpiece over and cut from both...

It's a TS 2500 CI with the RH side table extension (a very sturdy but fold-down item) and the larger sliding carriage on the LH side. Cast iron top, 3hp 250V induction motor and plenty of precision. I believe the current version is entitled Scheppach Precisa 4.0. They aren't inexpensive, though...

One solution to the "keep it open at this page" problem is to use weighted cords that are attached to the top-back of such a stand and dangle down over the opened book, one per page, left & right. I'm sure I've seen this on church lecterns and similar thingies used when someone stands and reads...

This one! It's hopeless for breathing and seeing, as well as beard-confining ..... but so scary that everyone runs off elsewhere so you can remove it. You can also use it to peck with, a useful ability (just ask any seagull or parrot). Eshmiel

Ripping on a bandsaw takes longer than on a table saw but if the bandsaw is set up well and is of decent quality, it is possible to accurately cut multiple straight pieces of the same dimension - much quicker than resawing them with a panel saw at least. But the finish of the cut isn't usually...

Paul, One thing to consider is an alternative tool for the fast dimensioning of your planks into furniture parts. Many would recommend a bandsaw as more versatile than a table saw. Some claim to be able to get joint-quality cuts with a bandsaw although I admit that I've never managed that...

That's my experience too. I became adept with various styles of Western saws some years ago after the usual learning period and quite a few bodged tenons and dovetails. A good saw (and even a poor one) can produce good to acceptable cuts once the sawyer has got the techniques sorted. Also, a...

The shed contains a small blue box with over 100 bits in it, supposedly for every type of screw known to humankind, as well as some alien ones. Well, they might be as I've never seen the screw heads that some of these bits would fit. They were about £1 3s 7d some time ago. When I get to be...

And much else! Table saw design, for example. There are other things evidencing a Great Confusion in that land. Many other things. On the other hand, it's pretty queer in Blighty these days. I blame Mrs Thatcher (and the Kennedys). Myself, I have been confused since birth - more and more as...

Ha ha - yes, a bit o' masochism can be (paradoxically) a pleasure. The sort of thing that's "nice when it stops". The hard work or difficult experience is counterbalanced or even outweighed by the pleasure of achieving summick difficult. This is the essence of a lot of play, with sports being...

Amended to say "hand held power drill". I suppose you might be able to get a drill press of some power into the middle of a benchtop somehow but most pillar drills I know couldn't do it. After all, they're pillar drills - very heavy - so would require a big strong bloke (or lady) to manhandle...

What are the older model palm sanders used for? They seem to take forever to remove any wood so perhaps they're meant only for fine finishing of jobs over your head or in some other spot where lightweight would be useful ...? An RO sander of the right configuration can do a better (swirl-free)...

Another admiring glance from me. In fact, I will add such an item to my to-do list, as my wife is a Very Fine Cook Indeed and is forever sat at this table reading queer old cook books from 1925, some in French! That stand of yours would go perfectly. I see you have employed the proper slotted...

MDF is surely too feeble a material to put up with the stresses imposed on a worktop by various operations.....? In particular, I would have thought that the edges of dog holes would crumble as hold-fasts and dog-retension springs impinge on the fibres of the MDF around the top of the holes. But...

Breadboard ends are fine things. I've used traditional tongue and groove in the past, with the tongue notched and also confined so it doesn't show at the ends of the breadboard. Another approach is to have a decorative plug to fill the ends of the groove. It helps to plane the inside edge of...

:giggle: Eshmiel

It's a bit puzzling - the "so much ire" and "enemy" comments concerning some rather mild interchanges about this subject. Perhaps some have been over-sensitised to controversy and animated discussion by something AES calls the Jacob effect? However, I will consider myself told-off and will...

Ha ha - Mr Beach would have us all put three bevels on both sides of a plane blade, otherwise (he said) true sharpness will elude us because of the pesky wear-bevels made by scraping the bottom of the blade edge along the wood as we plane. This requires a rather involved process inclusive of...