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I bought a worktop jig off Ebay from these guys. It is a solid phenolic jig and looks to be very well made. It came marked as "seconds" and it has a large scratch on one side. This is only cosmetic and doesn't make any difference to the function of the jig. I've not used it yet on a "good"...

Lots of traders who sell through Ebay charge vat. HM Revenue and Customs have this strange notion that businesses should act as unpaid tax collectors.

I've gone for MDF frame and panel doors for my kitchen refit. The frame components are 18 mm thick by 90 mm wide MDF. The stiles are grooved at the router table 1/4" bit 11 mm deep on the inside edge. the stiles are similarly grooves on the inside edges and also on the ends. The panels are 6 mm...

I vaguely remember someone on this forum saying that they made vacuum attachments for powertools with plastic drain pipe (32 or 38 mm?) and shaped it with a heat gun. I made a pretty crude one for my biscuit jointer in this way. It isn't pretty but it is very effective and miles better than the...

Hi Boab, welcome to the forum. I know that you say that you mainly want to use hand tools but if you do much work with sheet goods (plywood, MDF chipboard) a hand-held circular saw and home made sawboard are really useful additions to your tool kit. I'm sure there will be plenty of others along...

I think you will just weaken the glue if you dilute it, rather than extending the open time. You can usually assemble even quite complex pieces by pouting together groups of components and clamping as you go. A dry-run or two usually shows you the best order to do things in.

Yep, that worked ok for me this time thanks; and there is a branch fairly close to me too :D

I did think about shower curtains and that might well be the way I go. We do have a collapsible gazebo for the garden but it is too big to set up quickly...we do have some spare detachable side walls that might work as screens though. My first attempts with the B&Q HVLP look pretty good now that...

Dunk, the link to Morrells doesn't seem to be working.

Hi Grant, welcome to the forum and you're welcome to pick my brain any time... on the strict understanding that you help me find it first :wink:

I'd also mention the router table as a real fire hazard. I've had the dust port of the router clog with chippings and very quickly start to smoulder. As soon as I turned off the router the glowing cinder, fanned by the draft from the vac, shot down the pipe. As his lordship says, you can imagine...

I just bought a Performance Power HVLP sprayer from B&Q after reading the good reports about it on this forum. So far I have only tried it out with water-based MDF primer but I have to say that I am impressed with how well it has performed. Much less overspray than I got with the gravity fed gun...

I'm with the other guys here. A standard Kitchen base unit will not be rigid enough. Like mailee, I built mine out of 18 mm ply and used the 75 mm locking castors from Axminster. I set the table height to be the same as my Triton Workcentre so that it can double up as an outfeed table when...

This was discussed in Byron Black's workshop build thread recently. Byron successfully used an 18g nailer to attach his cladding. But I would be worried about the durability of thin 18g brads as, A) they are too thin in my opinion and B) they are not protected against corrosion. Something like a...

I agree with Paul (engineer one) that a torsion box construction would be the lightest and strongest. You could then laminate or veneer with the surface of your choice.

After a trip to hospital for 5 stiches in my thumb three months ago, I use both. I haven't needed to make any tenons since but when I do I'll probably use the router.

Hi Houtslager, nice work. How did you paint the MDF?

OCD...WTF :?:

The full extension slides I bought from Screwfix recently have slots as well as round screw holes to let you fine-tune your alignment. You probably get about 2 - 3 mm of adjustment up and down and front to back. Once you are satisfied you just need to drive screws through the regular holes.

I think that the government will try and fight this one, if only on the issue of public health ie cheaper cigarettes will tend to increase smoking whereas it has been decreasing over the past few years.