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This Betty Norbury book is a delight http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 32-7744636 The older one too but it's getting a bit dated now I feel http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 32-7744636 I always check www.abebooks.com first and via the advanced search limit it to UK...

I have mine roughly 2" below my shoulder (then I can do tenons on longer bits of wood (I'm 6 foot). One thing with having it this high is you need to protect your eves as the wood cuttings can get you! Welcome to the world of ratters

I get it from these people: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/kilian/bargelfin.html I order lots of (6) the smallest tins, and then it lasts me for ever. As small tin will easilly do a small cabinet or a chair where as a half used larger tin will go off. If you ask them to send it surface post it...

I swear by Bartley's wipe on Varnish Gel, easy to use leaves a wonderfully smooth finish

I'm going to build a fence across the front garden (replacing a beech hedge we've just removed) And I was wondering about design considerations of the fence. We have a nice design from Greene and Greene house in California, sort of chunky arts n crafts. See here for an example of their...

My round dog holes shrink and expand with the season, which means to me when it is damper I have to hammer the dogs to move them! :cry: (50% of the time) For this reason I will be building square dogs next time, as with the lip and spring you can build in a lot of clearance and avoid this...

I have one of these but branded a little different, (got it for 39.99€! including 4 drill bits and a chisel) and I must admit I don't buy cheap power tools these days as they are all so bad, but this SDS drill of mine is the exception. It drill through re-enforced concrete like it was butter and...

Cologne show - can someone enlighten me and send me a URL ? It's so close to me and we even have a high speed train link. Plus if there are any other UKWers there I'd be happy to host our very own beerfest Pity about the Axminster show I have been debating for a few years now of hoping in Easy...

I have tried on too many occasions to be too optimistic as to the amount of planing rough sawn lumber needs. Now I alwys buy 40% more vol;emn than I need. (even this mark sometimes fails) :roll: Don't forget some species even warp a little after palning sas the now released stresses come out...

Funny this came up recently, we were talking about this just the other day with my fellow furniture makers - pharmacies here (NL) have some very impressive long (deep) drawers (2m long - I kid you not) . The reason is many things can be stored in long thin drawers Blum apparently have a...

You think that is a lot check out the costs of Bedrocks 602 on ebay.com - I know somone who paid 950$ for one!!!!!

I think they are interchangable between Record and Stanley, if not Axminster do them reasoanbly cheaply.

The cheap knock off, as Alf so succinctly puts it, is what I have and it works a treat. Don't forget Axminster have those Halls ''plane brushes'' too :roll: (incoming!!!)

Bessey are celebrating 25 years in the US this year and are selling via all their vendors cheap K Body Clamps I just ordered 4 x 50" and 4 x 24" clamps and got the lot for 170 US$ (8 clamps) The sale is so popular that many vendors have completely sold out. But they are committing to take...

Nice one Adam, not thought of recessing them. One thought could be use a pin router set up and follow the nameplate itself with the pin, the router bit width then dictating the size of the offset for the guide. Mind you doing making a template by hand would not be too difficult. Also from...

Andy Weblogs provide a dead easy way to publish to the web and once they are set up require minimal html/web skills to post and update: See mine: http://croeso.typepad.com or the new woodworking one from the US: http://www.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/ Mine only costs me 50 USD per...

I've just intstalled a20 KW stove with an archimedes screw feed delivering the sawdust and chippings from my dust collector system. The screw is a modified one from an Aga that fed coal and coal dust, picked it up years ago with this in mind It all works a treat and even automatically feeds in...

I too tried the glue film you can buy and found it very hard to veneer large pieces (say 80cm x 30cm) I now use just normal slow pva glue and a large thick panel (10cm thick) as a press, made up of laminated 22mm MDF. Plus loads of clamps. Spraying the front of the veneer with water is also a...

Mine is a japanese one - :oops: oh dear the name has just escaped me, begins with a Y I think or maybe a T - oh dear, let me mull it over again and then re-edit this post. :oops: Anyway it is a very high quality one and on the back has tapping drills infomation, pitch of threads etc etc -...

Wow nice work Phiily, inspires me to be quicker with my Love Chairs. I'm just at the shaping and sanding stage, havng made all my joints. I do hope mine turns out as well as yours though!