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How do you finish the inside?

Which Swedish retailers do you recommend? I occasionally try and source items in Sweden but have little luck.

Not sure it is absurd. I always used my Estwing claw on my splitproof and I still have them, handles intact after 40 years.

Whenever I visit my mum in Venice I try and pop into a toolshop that has been open as long as I remember, possibly mid 60's. They have shelves full of unsold tools from another era and often at bargain prices, which is unusual for Italy. I bought the 2 mallets below for €7 or £5. They have...

At those prices you could get a festool impact driver plus separate battery at FFX now. I have a small festool screwdrill at out performs my older bosch pro.

Board sizes here are very rarely 8'x4'. Usually much bigger and every type of board can be different.

Finishes are somewhat different here and there are literally thousands of brands. It may be difficult to know what is good. They seem to define finishes by whether they are water or solvent based.

I am about to make myself an MFT type workbench top in coloured water resistant MDF, Fibralux MR black, it appears to be similar to Valchromat. I have to buy quite a large sheet, 3050x1220 mm, so I was considering making a desktop for my son who has just started senior school. Would Rubio...

We have plenty of saws like that where I live. Used to cut firewood mostly.

Sometimes I would like to look at a larger area. I'm currently flattening a 6mm chisel and there are 3 distinct areas. Approximately 0.5mm of the whole edge which, by the reflection of light, appears to be rounded over, the area immediately behind it that is flat, and a corner which appears to...

Can you recommend an inexpensive scope, probably second hand, to look at a chisel point but where you can see maybe an edge 10mm wide? I was absolutely rubbish at physics, E at A level I think, so I have no idea what to look for. I have peak loupes, X15 and Peak stand microscopes, X50, but they...

I totally agree. I have picked up some very inexpensive loupes and microscopes, Peak, secondhand from ebay, but I wish I had something wit a bigger field of view.

It will be a combi. Only combis here.

Because it is far simpler for me to swap the current stat for a programmable one. This is an informal let, just for the school year, Sept to May here, and given we already run one house I'm trying to keep the price down. Our house is remote, especially in winter with a metre of snow. To avoid...

I would assume a 240V thermostat is basically just an ON/OFF switch so I don't understand what you intend by compatible?

In the most general terms there seem to be two types of thermostats, be they programmable, or not. Low voltage which require batteries, all of my systems have been of this type and I assume they operate a relay in the boiler, and 240V. If they are controlling only heating they both have 2 wires...

Diamond I have Atoma 400, naniwa diamond 800 and 6000. I also have an old coarse (black) DMT but it isn't very flat. I then have a mix of nano-hone, chosera, hibiki and one Cerax . I have some King stones but I assume they will be too soft? I also have 60 silicon carbide powder and kanaban.

I have been given a V11 block plane blade. I use mostly Japanese tools so I'm not sure which type of waterstone best for this steel?

I have ordered the Clifton screw which has kindly been checked for me.

already ordered thanks