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Humidity guages in my local B&Q in garden section next to greenhouse heaters and soil testers. The larger of the De-humidifiers i have is designed to work within a 5 bedroom house - thats a pretty big area and surely enough for your workshop Alf? Dry air is actually cheaper to heat than damp air...

Sounds good to me Norman. I think that French Polishing is more about learning the feel as opposed to technique. The technique can be taught relatively quickly but, it's that all important feel as the rubber glides across the surface putting down the very thinnest of coats, before it grabs and...

Watch what you do with so called revivers!! The Linseed Oil can bleed into the wood underneath and in some cases turn it black (unrepairable) The Meths will take of French polish (can you put it back?) Turpentine will remove any wax (There goes the 200 year old patina on that lovely Oak Coffer!)...

Trev the material tends to be baize as used on snooker tables and the like but you can get, as has been suggested, sticky back baize from places like Craft Supplies in Derbyshire. You may also get it at a local fabric suppliers. These people Essex Leisure,Maldon, Essex, 01 621 855985 (not sure...

Complete Woodfinishing - Hosker excellent book on general tecniques if your looking for French Polishing try Barstow and Waterhouse book and video of same name.

Tend to keep everything by way of offcuts from old timber - getting impossible to find now - you never know when that Georgian Mahogany piece will come in again need a strip of cock beading or a few plugs to be made up to cover a well intentioned screw. The smallest bits tend to be the most...

Thank you all for your replies. I currently have a variety of chisels from old pre-war cast iron ones through Japanese and Kirschen. All have draw backs; Cast Iron - hard to find, take ages to flatten the backs properly, handles often need to be replaced Japanese - brittle (makes you cry when...

This is picked up from another thread re-LN chisels. For a long time i suffered with the dreaded rust in the workshop (also didn't help having a leak in the roof that wasn't spotted and happened to be right over the jointers lovely cast iron bed (you can imagine the mess) beautiful woodturning...

Anyone noticed that in the latest Axminster "Highlight" they are now selling Lie-Nielsen Bevel edged chisels at £189.95 for a set of 5. Those of you that have them, are they "that" good?[/i]

I know many people love Woodrats, which are great for amateurs, but they would be much too slow for a professional workshop John Are you 'aving a larf? sliding dovetail tripod table leg repairs, floating tenons to repair broken ones, inlay repairs, cross grain grooves without getting into new...

The joys of restoration!! Can't work out from picture what it is even. As far as making up missing sections, keep it simple. Make up template in card from good part with same section - need north/south as well as east/west relationship templates. Glue on piece of timber with grain direction...

My DX5000 with 2.5 metres of hose attached directly to my Scheppach planer thicknesser leaves a fair pile of chips behind after running through a few boards. Yes it does have the paper bags fitted. It sucks like mad and regularly implodes the collection bags so perhaps it's the outlet design...

Out of interest which of the Record extractors do you have? I have a Record DX5000 and am buying a Felder combi unit and have looked at buying the AF10 or AF22 extractors. The Record i have doesn't cope with extracting from my current 10" planer let alone the new 12", plus it's noisy. So, if you...

I've used water on my DMT's and White Spirit. The White Spirit obviously cures the rust problem and seems to make the DMT cut a little bit faster. Water gives a finer finish and is fine as long as you dry the DMT off properly afterwards. Another wheeze you might like to try with your DMT's is to...

I've got the 1206 and have used it for a number of years. I have quite a few of the jigs (expensive, but make life so easy). I have the planer knife jig and use it without problem to sharpen 10" planer blades. The best jig is for the fingernail gouge used in turning (a difficult thing to grind...

Frank, Don't do it!! Yes you can use boiled linseed oil as a lubricant, or white polishing oil, but, oil can weaken the film of the polish so making it even more susceptible to damage. It's very difficult to get rid of at the later stages of polishing. You will need to spirit off the oil (this...

Hello Norman, I'm a conservator and restorer of antique furniture based in Oxfordshire. I also design and make furniture and enjoy both the old and new.

Hello, I'm a Furniture Restorer and use hide glue on a daily basis. You can, after making it up, re-heat / re-use the glue over and over (after a while it can smell really bad , especially in summer, it is rendered animal after all!) This also means that if a glued up joint isn't quite right...