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Gosh, I'm lucky. To make a drawknife is quite a challenge needing a lot of skill and effort. To make one and give it away, that is extraordinary. And if that effort were not enough, a lovely marking knife too. I feel delighted and honoured to receive these. The maker has slightly given the...

If 5/16 is odd ... Lie Nielsen Veritas (at an even more eyewatering price) Robert Sorby Narex - and maybe others. But stock is hard to find at the moment.

I'm going to mildly disagree here. The purpose of the haunch is to allow you to put the mortice a bit further from the top of the leg, whilst maintaining glue area and keeping the joint in good alignment. If it were just to fill up the end of a groove (which it can often be usefully used to...

Sorry, didn't spot your last post - if you are going to use the router, why not saw the tenon a bit wider and round the ends to fit the hole ?

I am surprised nobody has yet mentioned that this ought to be a haunched M&T. My only other suggestion is that I'd not be drawn by the advice to drill out some of the waste. Unless it is a pretty big mortice and a brace and bit might be appropriate. Just get a proper mortice chisel, a big...

I have a box of drill bits from Bosch which claim to drill anything. They are basically like a masonry drill but actually almost sharp. They go through tiles without much bother, even in a small cordless drill.

Have you had a peruse of folkstreams.net ? Some good stuff from across the pond on there, including coopered buckets and wooden shovel carving. Good way to pass an hour or two.

Indeed. As a bodgers we can hang out in our bender of an afternoon knocking up some ******* and pimps without offending anyone. Don't know what all the fuss is about.

Well there is that.

Absolute nightmare for internationalising software though. Nothing fits in the screen space available ! Chinese is best - very compact.

Honest opinion of an engineer: absolutely no chance.

Have a look at the plate that clamps the blade - if it has routinely had a lot of flex applied to the blade, this can become bent so that when the screw is fairlly loose, the blade is not clamped in the middle. If it is not flat, take a hammer and make it so. This really helped mine. It ought...

So you cut the dovetailed side of the housing straight from the saw ? When I did some of these I for some reason didn't get on with sawing the side at an angle, so cut a housing with vertical sides, then took a few swipes with a Record 2506 side rebate plane at an angle to create the dovetail...

I don't know if it helps, but I contacted a friend who I know sourced elm for chairmaking. He says : Don't know if that helps.

I think elm can still be grown coppiced to produce 4-6" regrowth despite DED, which I would imagine is good for what you need ? I know at Wimpole NT estate where we used to do green woodwork, such elm was cut for the bast to make seat weaving supplies. Rather at the wrong end of the country for...

You don't need to go to Scotland. Elms will reach a size big enough to do this job before disease does for them. Over 12" wide boards, that's more difficult.

Why ever did anyone think that dark sprayed finish was a good idea. Looks much better now. I collected a chair that was being thrown out at work, the upholstery was torn and the finish was similar, dark and in sad condition. But it was a nice shape and underneath was ash and oak. Stripped...

My father - a genuine Sheffield steelworker - had a tablesaw he made himself from angle iron and plate. It had no guarding whasoever - no riving knife or crown guard, and all that was under the table was exposed, just an open frame of angle iron. Watched him use it many a time, and amazingly he...

That's what he was told at the hospital. It may be excess caution, but I'd be nervous to chance it too. It could also be that like a great many products, not all hobs on the market actually meet EMC standards.

I could probably get a nice warm inner glow just standing next to one by now :rolleyes: An aside - a neighbour who had to have a pacemaker fitted was told he coudn't use his <1 year old induction hob anymore :(