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I got locked in the living room by a worn out latch. Had to get my wife to pass a kitchen knife through the window to jiggle the latch back by working it between door and frame. I suppose I could have left by the window, but I would still have had to sort the door ! Glad it happened to me...

Given it is made from relatively small pieces screwed together rather than morticed, it looks like a user made special to me. I thought spill plane briefly too, but having researched them to make one myself, quickly dismissed the idea. Low angle, so perhaps end grain use ? But why ? Is the...

Well, £50 poorer, but it has arrived :D Pictures to follow. It will clearly need some sharpening. The cutting edge is dull, cambered and lop-sided, but maybe that is intentional to give varied depths of cut ? So we generally agree with the article from Jimi mentioned above regarding how...

My colleague usually answers the phone at work, and says "yes, I'd thought something was wrong, it's running really slow. I'll have to turn it on - you just hold on" and sets the phone to one side. They hang on surprisingly long, and at least aren't bothering anyone else. These are the one...

I should have known not to ask you lot, bound to lead me astray... Still, not too big to smuggle in past the wife ...

I had a school friend who went to work for IBM. They had a "clean desk policy", and made everyone clear away their desks at the end of the day. Some consultant had told them that a tidy desk was a sign of a tidy mind. Unfortunately they had assumed that by tidying the desk, you could tidy the...

Looks like a nice one. A bit of extra oomph would be welcome for augers over 1" say. I'd be interested to hear how it is to use; does the extra sweep feel like quite a reach, needing more concentration to bore straight without a wobble?

Oh gosh. Wish you hadn't told me that Andy - a cigar shave with Sheffield heritage. Want one ! Thanks for the video Pete. I was sure I'd seen that picture before, but only just realised it was a video ! I was wondering how these are best used, drawn, pushed ? And depth of cut controlled by...

I find myself periodically tempted to try one one of these. But they don't come cheap, so ... anyone who's used one (Pete ?) - are they good ? How do they compare with more conventional curved base spokeshaves ? The voice of reason in me says that the originals seem fairly rare, and that...

I like that. Is the contrast in the wedged tenons just down to grain orientation ? Looks good. And I like the stopped chamfers.

No apology needed, I know my limits and stick mostly to the easy and cheap fish - mollys, platys (managed to keep them for a couple of generations) guppies etc. Rasbora seem to win for durability- despite not visibly eating anything at all ! Hints on feeding are useful, thanks.

I know very little I admit, but I never realised snails were considered such a problem. We always have some in our tank, they must have come in with the plants. They come and go; got quite numerous at one stage, but at other times there are only a few. We haven't done anything consciously to...

I only made the stand and the mantle piece in that photo. The other furniture was bought because my delivery times are too long ... it is chunky oak stuff bought at a "garden centre", made in the far east. I looks a bit like Oak Furnitureland before they ran out of big pieces of wood, if you...

This was a few years back, but I thought I'd share it as we seem to have aquarium talk breaking out. This is at the much more modest end of the scale. We had picked up a 65L tank for free from my SIL, and my son wanted to have some fish. We were struggling to find a place to put it, having...

Heh heh. My wine rack is in the back of the cupboard under the stairs. I have to be almost as athletic, though not nearly so elegant, to retrieve an interesting bottle ! Do these wine walls have some sort of climate control ?

This sounds like one of those things that would involve a debate with my wife, with the result that I do whatever she decides :lol: Fashion has long since left me behind, and so I'm used to having unusual tastes. So whatever the customers want I guess. (But I'd still either leave the...

There's always the pole lathe ... much safer :D Actually, on manually powered lathe you would not only take off the corners, you'd shape the outside by axe till it is starting to look like a bowl before it went on the lathe. And axe work is of course perfectly safe :wink: I hope you got...

No, it was a while ago, and Screwfix don't seem to stock them anymore, but they are just like the ones you were looking at on eBay. Even the same colour.

What a strange space to have available - what was there before ? I too like the X detail, and the chunky look of the shelves. I'm still struggling with the grey stretch of skirting board underneath it though, is is just me who'd prefer it to continue in white ? Or is there an obvious...

I am on my second. The first was a spinning disk type badged JCB which was quite noisy for a suburban garden, and the plastic housing broke. Currently I have the rather more pricey (out of the OP's budget) Bosch AXT25D which is quieter, and doesn't block up so easily. I have had to repair the...