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Have a mooch around your local classifieds etc. I've got enough shelving to fill my garage and probably do another one - all full steel dexion that was sat in someone's back yard. Paid £60 for enough to keep me going for many years, just needed a coat of paint.

At £90 I'll keep an eye on them, for £60 I'd buy them on principle! I always wish I had more 12"/18" clamps - I never tend to buy the things as they're not often that much cheaper than full size clamps, but oh so useful at times...

Thanks. I ended up doing a trial, sanding back an area that I had oil, then used exterior woodglue on that, and it has set rock solid. It might well be weaken, but for a set of shelves it has done the job - got away with that one, phew! Thanks :)

On the first issue, there's every chance the content of the data file is ok, it's just that something else ancillary is screwed up. In Outlook, change the location of your data file to somewhere (anywhere), check it works by browsing to the Inbox folder, then repeat the process but now point...

I might have cocked up here... Make some shelves today, just horizontal shelves rebated into a single vertical column, so quite minimalist. Log in bed though I realise I've coated the whole thing with a coat of Danish oil, including the horizontal shelf surfaces that will mate in the rebate...

That's a new one for me Andy, thanks for the idea! As wonderfully traditional as holdfasts are, the handforged ones aren't cheap, and my understanding is that the mass produced ones aren't nearly as good since you need the forging action to give the material properties desirable in a holdfast...

Nope, 2x 18mm giving 36mm, onto a 3"x4" timber frame with horizontal slats.

Just wondering if there were any favoured/tried-and-tested approaches on here to putting clamping aids on a benchtop? The bench I've got is just a plywood top (2x 18mm, one sacrificial) which doesn't let itself to the easy securing of workpieces. Clearly there are many things I could do...

+1, that is fantastic! It sounds like the reason I'm a bit baffled is that I fit into the niche you just described. I don't have the space for multiple saws (as nice as a table and panel saw would be!), I've build an extraction hood for it, and I'm a hobbyist that dabbles on my own in a...

Sounds like I need to look at modern mitre saws if this ever gives up the ghost, I definitely have some preconceptions about them! I understand the love for table and panel saws, but I can't quite reconcile the argument about space in my mind. My RAS takes up about 3ftx3ft in my workshop as a...

Without a doubt one of the most useful tools I own is my Dewalt 1251 RAS, a tool I learnt to use as a kid at home as my old man has one. Reading around on the Internet on best ways to true up pieces, I ended up getting sidetracked by the sheer number of articles on RAS in general, how...

Interesting, didn't know that. I'll have a go with normal rattle cans and then post pictures. Even if it's a failure there will be some learning from it!

Sorry, I'm talking cans here, I don't have a compressor etc.

I hadn't thought of that, nice idea, thanks! Am I using the right tool for the job here? I just can't see myself getting a decent finish with a brush.

Thanks Robin for such a detailed reply :). I was going to use car spray paint having read up a bit - most people seem to achieve great results with it so I'll follow their lead. You're right in that it's wider than it is tall - 1.1m wide and 63cm tall, but split into 20/20/10/10 sections...

Ok, so I'm making an enclosed rack of shelves to sit on a desk, which is just a rectangular frame with MDF shelves rebated into it. Clearance between the shelves is around 15cm. Edges are prepped, whole thing is primed, etc. Now, I'd really like to spray this to get a good finish, but I've...

Perfect, thanks!

Wow that would be very generous, thank you. How dark is it? It's the colour that is very important - effect I'm going for is an Ash/Beech salt mill and dark coloured pepper mill.

It's for a large (14" pepper mill), so it needs to be best part of 3 inches really to look proportionate I'd say.

It's Chestnut brand Spirit Stain that I've got, so sounds like I might need to replace that (or try on some scrap). Cheers!