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Could it be sweet chestnut? I have used a lot since moving to my present location.

I'm not sure if customs will be able to determine exactly what wood the table is made of and I'm not sure there are that many phytosanitary restrictions on timber, again ask the shipper. I have just imported some Goncalo Alves and Pau Rosa I bought from eBay using ups to ship. I gave them the...

If i buy anything from the uk i am charged local, italian, vat and duty if the item was not manufactured in the uk. The small items fiends bring me in their car are not discovered. I imagine you will have to produce an invoice and the lower the value the less vat will have to be paid. Call a...

I have one but virtually never use it, I have a feeling my mother-in-law bought for me when they first came out, waterstones much more fun. Can't see that may people paying up to £800 just to put up with them. Never really understood why they are are so expensive.

I prefer them square, like you it doesnt feel right if they're not and I can adjust equally left and right. I was having the same problem with my very old Tormek and it turned out the bearings had rusted and there was movement of the spindle allowing the stone to move off square.

i recently bought a bevel up lie nielsen blade second hand, it's nearly 5mm thick and ground at the wrong angle. I don't have a grinder but I suspect it will take several hours to regrind it on my coarsest diamond stone. a grinder would be a blessing

The Henry Taylor gouge i recently purchased was punched

I need to drill a few imperial holes and forstner really the only way to go. Are Planet bits any good?

I recently ordered yorkshire tea for my mum in Venice, 6 boxes of 160 for €15 ish. Only one box turned up, as I suspected. Ordered again, one box again. Upside is both refunded, description was wrong, and my mum got to keep the tea.

Fisch or Famag with hole.

I have something like 600 passwords in my password manager, not sure how I'd remember them otherwise. On the other hand I have no mobile cover where I spend 85% of my time so 2FA can be a bit of a PTA.

expensive looking vise

although 36 hours isn't very long if you can wait a buìit longer

I have to make some 40x60cm chestnut drawer fronts, supported only at the bottom. Ikea draws. The chestnut has been sitting around a long time and has barely moved over 8", even the flatsawn. machined it down to 20mm thick last week.

At those sort of sizes I can't imagine you will have to wait very long.

these have a 2.5mm hole

that's why I want to fit handles, I keep seeing the same thing said

None of my rasps have handles, or files for that matter. How were they secured in a wood handle traditionally?

It is the extra paperwork. I prepared an Amazon UK return 2 days ago. In the UK it is relatively simple, one small declartion on the box of value and country of manufacture. I had 3 copies of the invoice produced by the courier, one copy of the invoice from Amazon, a copy of my passport, a copy...

Can anyone recommend books on the fundamentals of finishing? Not a book on any particular technique but how to prepare and finish pieces prepared with hand tools. Is that too vague?