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I remember staring at a thin black line of ebony shavings in my dust extractor once, saying to myself that must be 10 quids worth! My ebony needed squaring up so little option to bandsaw some off and save it a veneer, it did pull on my conscious though. It is fairly easy to do it on the...

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I too have 30: 6 per wall evenly spaced (24) 4 in the floor (put down flexible conduits before the concrete floor was poured ) (under bench, table saw and planer) and 2 in the beams above the bench Some are rated 16A and they can be rewired if the 16A location needs changing.

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Rather grand,well done, it sits in it's environment very very well.

Thanks for the reply Gill , I see it now, and why the chevalet does what it does so well.

I saw, a couple of years ago one of these being demonstrated in France. It was put through it's paces against a high quality fret saw (Hegner). It was far superior (which somewhat surprised me) and to make sure the instructor was not kidding us he gave us all a go of both machines and again to...

My 6m x 5 m (wooden from stables type companies) workshop was 9000€ to be built (with 4 double glazed windows and a double door entry, 5000€ for the roof (thick insulation and real roof tiles) 3000€ for the concrete floor (including a large crane type concrete pump to bring it over the house to...

Tony I've seen people put a rubber sleeve on Micrometers in our metallurgy lab, they roll the rubber sleeve over the micrometer to lock it in place and roll it back to adjust it. Worked well - maybe worth considering. So you have micrometers and digital callipers, all I use is a series of bits...

After years of working with a Scheppach 2600 I upgraded to a Felder Planer Thicknesser recently (500 series) and I must say allowing for the jump in price it is a world of difference from the old one (which still is her and in permanent thicknesser mode. I'm now saving my euros for a Telder...

I saw one made the other day like this, it was done using IKEA veneered table tops (which are torsion boxes with a paper inner and wood blocks where the legs screw in and a wooden frame). This guy built if for a portable model railway system and was very nice, hinged and even room between when...

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LN make a plough plane???/ - is that so??? - or do you mean Router Plane

http://www.axminster.co.uk/product.asp? ... e=1&jump=0 Axminster sell these clamps with T slots, It seems to me with a bit of work you can build nice accessory mounts for router saw etc they sell stops etc for it and at 50" long it seems pretty good to me at @ 20 quid They also do this...

Bill Penz's web site will give you all you need to know on design http://billpentz.com/woodworking/cyclone/BudCyclone.cfm Any local sheet metal dealer will sell you what you need to make one ala Bill's plan. Phlilly has made one from a design in Popular Woodworking (I thnik and has written...

I like Scrit have the Makita 9400 it has such a large base plate compared to the modern ones which makes all te difference (you near ear protection though)

The vol III of Betty Norbury's mission to market the incredible skills of UKs furniture designer makers has finally arrived. Bespoke it's entitled and has David Savage writers chair on the cover. The level of skill and design is mind boggling and I must say had me slumped in the chair...

Sulli1 firstly welcome to the forum I just make these by cutting off cuts from the rails with 2x45 deg cuts at either end, buy those screwed fittings with a wood screw on one side and a machine screw on the other,(no idea what they are called???) then just screw this in pace with the woodscrew...

Oh one more thing Household bleach isn't really strong enough, you really need to go for the industrial strength stuff hence my visit to my local pharmacy.

I bleach with the diluted caustic Acid (Gloves Goggles ventilation !!!!!!!!) the after 2 hours I wash it down with water to remove the caustic acid. (hose pipe) I then wash again as the bleach smell does not always go first time and scrub it with a brush. leave it to dry for 1 day I then...