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We all go out and buy tools and machines from time to time and if you are like me you shop around to get the best price before you part with your hard earned cash. The competition among retailers is fierce and they are all eager to take your money, being the buyer you have everything in your...

Hi Stooby. It's very easy to set up. Have the router fixed onto the router table with the plunge lever released so the legs are fully extended. Place the scissor jack under the router and wind it up until the plate on the top is resting in the middle of the router casing. On the base of my...

Hi Boboxs. When i first got my Hegner i did have a few problems but this is unusual for a Hegner. It was sent back to Hegner and after it was returned everything was fine and I have not had a problem since then. The tension is also fine and since that first post I have made thousands of items on...

Gill. I bought a scissor jack from halfords and it is fixed underneath my router table and is a brilliant height adjuster. I nearly bought the height adjuster from Axminster but at nearly £300 a lot more expensive than my £15 scissor jack and it does exactly the same job with infinite adjustments.

Hi Jamie. I did the round over of the hearts on the router table, the roller guide on the cutter is only about 6mm so I can get into some quite small cut outs. I also use a Makita router on the router table but it's one of the smallest ones they make. I have a range of rounding over bits so can...

I feel it's one of the quirks of scroll sawing. My table is perfectly level and I test it from time to time by cutting into a piece of wood for about 20mm and then turning it over and seeing if the blade will back into the cut okay and that is good enough for me. I have made jig saws where one...

Hi Stooby. The router you have sounds like a nightmare and it is very old. I have a couple of routers and one is fixed permanently on the router table. It's a small 1/4 inch Makita and perfect for everything I need to do. basically I just use it for rounding over the edges of things I make on...

Hi Stooby. There, I said Gill would be along with some advice. I made a house sign for a customer some years ago and last week she got in touch to say parts were going black, which surprised me as all my outside stuff has 4 coats of Danish oil. The customer asked me to make a new one for her...

Hi Stooby. I cn't help with the inlay Question, Gill is the expert in this field and I expect she will read your post at some point. I have used most hardwoods for coasters, whatever takes your fancy really. I find the lighter coloured woods go better than darker ones. I use Beech, maple, Oak...

I have just bought a pyrography kit and a little confused on a couple of points.I am getting conflicting advice on the best way to put a design onto a piece of wood, some say it can be done with a laser printer, which I have, others say it can only be done with an inkjet printer. Does anyone...

Essex cowboy. Air dried clay would not work as it shrinks as it goes hard. Polymer clay would be about the best but leave it flush front and back as it does swell slightly as it hardens. Also don't forget to put a few groves in side the cut outs, I use a dremel tool with an engraving bit...

Very nice Gill. I am impressed. The Elm sets them off beautifully and I feel this is one of the problems with many projects, matching the design to the right type of wood and this case the Elm was a perfect choice, especially the way you have encompassed the grain with the design. May I ask...

I had a very nice e-mail back from The Wooden Teddy Bear Company and they say they have not had any adverse reports about FD blades breaking and no reports of Olsen blades being inconsistent. They said they were sending me 3 dozen FD untra reverse number 5s and 3 dozen Olsen mach speed numbe 5s...

As we all know there was a problem with FD blades last year and many of us stopped using them because of the unusual number of breakages. I switched over to Olsen blades, especially the mach spped ones. It took a little adjusting using the new blades but soon got used to their characteristics...

I know Mike has not been in the best of health and he is getting on a bit so maybe it's the best thing for him to call it a day. I had, up until last year been a customer of Mike's for many years but when the quality of FD blades went downhill I to called it a day and switched to Olsen blades. I...

Hi Brian. You remind of my granson when he opened his Christmas presents, so excited and full of beans. You certainly got some lovely wood from the chest of drawers and when you take them all apart you must have quite a pile of prime oak that would have otherwise have cost a small fortune. It's...

Hi Steve. To get the very best out of a scroll saw I would choose one with variable speed and a cast iron table. The variable speed will allow you to cut all the materials you are likely to come across and the cast iron table ill absorb any vibration better than aluminium. The Hegners are...

First of all you do not want rubbish blades to practice with, they will not perform very well and give you thr wrong impression of what scroll sawing is all about. In your shoes I would get some scrap wood, draw lines on them and try and cut along the lines. The Niqua blades from Hobbies are a...

Hi Martin. Nothing in the trash folder either but many thanks for the trouble you have gone through on my behalf. Maybe you can help with another pattern. I have no idea why but now and again I go to find a pattern in my pattern folder only to find it has completely vanished despite clicking on...

Over the last few weeks I have been having a chat with Sue Mey about some patterns and she has really come up trumps and when I have made the items I will post them on here. In the mean time I had another pattern from Sue and thought I would share it here. It's a cross within a heart and made...