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me to, I was thinking 'roof felt? nooooo!' For some unknown reason it is an excellent host for red mites and they can kill your hens in short order.

or Boris Johnson

They are very useful and for £125 this is a better spec and cheaper than Screwfix Erbauer twin deal Erbauer EID18-Li / ECD18-Li-2 18V 2 x 2.0Ah Li-Ion EXT Brushless Cordless Twin Pack You may soon find 2Ah doesn't last long enough on larger jobs but you can always upgrade when budget allows 👍

If you bolt 2 fixed castors to the rear legs such that the wheels just touch the ground, then by tipping the bandsaw backwards the weight shifts to the castors and you wheel it wherever you like. This way you don't lose any rigidity.

I have a water damaged Record No. 4 that I rather too eagerly wished to renovate. I watched a few vids including Mr. Sellers and used a flat slab of granite, lots and lots of various grits of good quality sandpaper. After hours trying to remove the rust I gave up and put it away - I have many...

I also thought this but Phil is correct - from Wickes Wiki page: In July 2019, along with reports of sales being up 9.7%, the parent company of Wickes, Travis Perkins, announced plans to action a demerger and spin off Wickes, quoting Wickes "is well positioned to thrive as a stand alone...

my mistake, I didn't clock you'd added them and just saw your follow-on message. PM sent 👍

the 2nd pen blank from the top on the last picture looks ideal. I'll pm you ky address and sort out how much I owe you. Many thanks

I agree and my wife doesn't want black so I'll wait to see what Distinterior has.

Excellent thanks 👍

thanks Phil I've considered that as well as fuming which I've done several times, but I like the idea that it's bog oak and I've never used it before.

My wife (the commissioner) has decided she wants dark brown bog oak so does any one have an offcut/pen blank I could buy? @Phill05 I sent a message saying I would like the ebony you kindly offered but I've been overruled and to be honest I also think dark brown bog oak will look the best with...

A bit of a design dilemma. I am about to start making a John Hall's Frame for a cloakroom mirror. I'm making it out of ash possibly with ebony plugs or would sapele look better (I have some)? If ebony plugs would look better on ash I thought a pen blank or similar would be ideal. Does anyone...

It started working again after a fashion. It works fine with my bench sander and ROS but doesn't switch off my mitre saw which is weird. I'm hanging on to it until my new workshop is finished (I haven't started it yet but it is imminent 🤞), by the time it is built I will have finalised the...

So when your wife asks you to make her a toilet role holder think versatility, manoeuvrability, extendibility

Whilst at night school at Ryecotewood Furniture College many years ago I made an occasional table out of rippled sycamore. I finished it with a varnish wipe made from 50% water based acrylic varnish with UV protection and 50% mineral spirits. 3 coats applied with a sponge brush then 2 coats of...

You may be able to modify this design by @DBT85 DBT85s Workshop - Moved in and now time to fit it out

I had this problem in my outbuilding (old stables with 114mm concrete block walls) and now my 1970s sectional garage. Fixing the water ingress and flood water getting into the outbuildings (we live near a river that floods every few years and the outbuildings are at a lower level than the house)...

One of the biggest predators of tadpoles are newts, it's a numbers game with only a fraction making it to frogs. On the way they feed the newts who feed the grass snakes and herons and on it goes. Hats off to you for raising the tadpoles, it's likely the spawn was laid in a dew pond which fills...

A bit of a contentious issue, most of us have been taught to lay a plane of its side but Paul Sellers and others state that this achieves nothing as steel is harder than wood. I'm unsure, I see Mr Sellers' logic, but could a finely honed blade be damaged by laying it on a hardwood bench or even...