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Not at all. But when things become mass market...one in every town..these always have unforeseen consequences. Often the exact opposite of what's intended. So if job repairing these valuable "things" isn't worth £20000+ (a living) then that job will die when the retired chaps (doing it for...

Once a skill is devalued to the point when it's free market economics means it will die. Yes you guys may be a hangover from a previous era but if your intention is to upskill then go and teach people under 18 to repair stuff. Run courses where you teach young people to repair stuff.

But charities paying more rent then inflates the market artificially. If you repair something worth repairing for free nobody will ever learn to repair it thus condemning every item in the future to be landfill. Pay a wage to a person to repair it and people will learn to repair. (Ad infinitum)...

Like charity shops inflating rent in High streets things have unforeseen consequences. And putting them under a charity banner doesn't change the outcome. Why not set up a mechanic cafe next to a little garage for instance.

At the risk of being called a humbug. These arrangements completely devalue any skill used in there execution. The principal is great but the reality is the skills your using to fix said item are immediately assimilated as valueless by the general public. It's basically the final expression of...

Someone else tried it successfully.

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/more-door-stuff.143982/post-1680380

I wouldn't but I did post a thread on how I achieved something similar. A rebate plane is not the best tool maybe suited to the final clean up. Tbh 35mm fire doors are available. My post was enlarging 25mm rebates for batten doors to 36mm for normal doors. But it's a lot better to just use 35mm...

Like that idea. Love simplifying stuff. Let the movement be controlled in the breadboard joint itself.

I must have an unrequited itch to make a nice bench as I put I bid on the unfinished bench for sale on this very forum. I can't help but think after I made it I would be terrified to use it!(in the way I use my bench now at least)

I have to say upvc French doors are the spawn of Satan. The wider the worse. If course when you would like to open both doors(sunny) the things sag and catch. I'd have sliders or wooden maybe aluminium anything but plastic if it's at all south facing.

Cut 2.5mm off the left of the blade by moving the fence about 6mm each strip. See my post on bevel slat shutters. Not safe to pass between the fence and blade. How you do the final skim is the most tricksy bit. I think I'd struggle at that thickness tbh.

I've started using toupret glazing putty. Not quite traditional but in many ways better.

Yes courses have always been like that. Fine furniture and boxes. I think people have a reel playing in there head and this video is both satisfying and relaxing with classical music in the background. All dovetails and showy wood. The trouble would be the skill level of the course...

I also use burnt sand mastic on stone buildings. It's seems old fashioned well it is old fashioned but it's a great product. Both flexible and sticky and can be matched to the stone.(it fills the gap around the frame)

I love the traditional square iron dowel fixed into a mortice in the frame and leaded into a stone cill. Few nails into wood plugs. It doesn't need much to hold them solid really.

Ps I'd love to run a make your own door course. Do you think there would be any interest? Suppose you'd do make your own frame first! First thought being how would you get it home!

You neglect to say what tackle you've got in your workshop. 2 inch unsorted redwood deals(9by2) for the door rails/stiles and 3 inch deals for the frame is totally traditional.(and almost waste free ie in half gives 4 inch stiles/top rail full gives 8 1/2 inch bottom/mid rail.

Here's the part finished chair

The steel in anchor chains is normally wrought iron and this provides the soft backing in(top) Japanese chisels. Bear in mind quality wrought iron hasn't been made for many years. The slag inclusions, once etched give a pretty pattern ala Damascus.