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I don’t know if it’s any use to your job but I’ve got a lot of nails neatly out of boards by punching them in and then pulling them out with pincers or pliers from the reverse - less damaging to the wood surface than punching back from the ‘pointy end’

I wouldn’t turn your nose up at buying some tools from Lidl or Aldi. Hand tools like screwdrivers, pliers, clamps etc are cheap and good. Even some chisels. And my Lidl 20v drill has taken 3+ years of daily hard use without fault. Chop saws etc can be ok just need a better blade and careful...

Did anyone see George Clark’s Amazing Spaces this week? I was impressed by the cabin build but puzzled too - all that built on four 500mm deep concrete pads with a concrete block on them. Can that be enough? And what about planning? Or building regs for that clearly non compliant rustic...

Potton do that sort of thing IIRC. https://www.potton.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4vvxyo-f9QIViLbtCh2_VABLEAAYASAAEgKSa_D_BwE

My old dad used to tell me that one when I was a kid 60 years ago (except it was ‘Welland and Anderson’). I regularly amused(?) my kids with it in turn.

The only Parkside tool I own is a 20v drill. It’s been absolutely brilliant. I’ve used it mercilessly for over three years drilling wood and steel on a daily basis. Hardwood, plywood, softwood, steel up to 10mm thick etc. It’s still going strong, the batteries last as well now as when new. The...

Great advice - sounds better than watching most Christmas tv too.

I hate to admit but I have great difficulty hand sawing straight! My verticals just drift off course. (Maybe it’s because I’m a weird mix of left and right handed). I find accuracy easier using pull rather than push saws. I will probably mainly use a pull saw on smaller dimension soft and...

I’ve used various cheap ones from Aldi which were good up to a point. Something better than them but not as costly as a £100 set would be ideal.

I’m thinking a Japanese pull saw would be a good thing to put on my Christmas list (better than socks!). But what sort? I’m afraid I’m a power saw person - table saw and chop saw - but a hand saw would be useful for cross cutting smaller pieces and hopefully improve my accuracy. At the moment I...

That’s how we came by our Henry! Since then it’s survived three years of boat renovation being daily stuck into the dust ports of various woodworking machines. Still going strong. The two speed circuit panel went wrong but you can just chuck it away and rewire as single. Now have Dyson...

You can buy soft copper certainly up to 1/2in - used it on our canal boats. Regular 22mm copper is hard to bend even with a bender - and you couldn’t do coils that way anyway. Quality seems to vary too - we got some from S***wf** a while back and it wouldn’t do 90deg bends without creasing...

My Aldi one is fine for my needs - I bought a long track (sheppach I think) to replace the two short lengths it comes with and generally it’s ok for cutting down sheets of ply.

We both had ours a couple of days ago: got the email from the Govt, booked on line, got slots the next day. Doing walk-ins there too. I was impressed by the simplicity of it all: we are not at home but away on our canal boat but just used the local post code. Now we can go clubbing! Not.

Ryobi jigsaw and nail gun (which was promptly replaced when it went wrong). I’d get a matching drill but my faithful 20v Lidl drill just soldiers on after three years of heavy use drilling wood and steel during boat building. The batteries are holding charge too. I put my hand on a replacement...

I helped my daughter and son in law build an IKEA kitchen in their flat must be 25 years ago. Still going strong even with granite tops. I wonder if today’s IKEA ones would last so long? Doubt it to judge by the abysmal quality of some other IKEA stuff I saw on a recent visit.

I sometimes wonder if this sort of job is worth the trouble - we bought all our units from here: DIY Kitchens | Discount Kitchens, Doors & Cheap Kitchen Units UK made, solid cabinets not flat pack, doors already fitted, lots of styles and the cheapest I could find. Four years on and lasting...

Another vote for the dewalt table saw - it has a rack and pinion adjusted fence so you can accurately alter cut thickneses by literally a mm. Expensive but great machine - once you’ve bought one you’ll want to find more excuses to use it.

My Worx reciprocating saw - ideal for awkward to get at cuts on the boat or my super accurate Dewalt table saw.

I’m interested in any tips on cutting curves, especially in plywood. My frustration is that the blade bends so the cut goes out of vertical.