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I had to do exactly this a couple of months back. I made this little block as a drill guide for a 20mm forstner bit. The thin bits are so you can clamp the block to the carcase firmly. You have to cover the area in masking tape and then carefully mark out the centres of the original holes, align...

I got a very stout and nice chunk of leather from my local trad shoemender. It cost me a tenner.

Very good point about the cast iron wearing out rather than the bar.

That sounds like a neat solution. I'll give it a go when the next one starts to fail. Thanks!

This is for all the poor impoverished amateurs like me out there. I just saw a Wallybois short on Youtube about how to cure slipping f-clamps, where he advises re-filing the serrations on the clamp bar to improve the grip. I think my solution is better, because it turns a knackered F-clamp into...

Just a thought - have you checked your grinding wheel for square? It's quite easy to set up the jig off square without realising, and for the business edge of the wheel to be off square to the side of the wheel, if I said that correctly!

Hi kgill. My sixpenceworth. I have an old table saw that doesn't cut 45's nicely at all. So I decided to make a donkey's ear shooting board for a small box project like yours. A youtube search came up with this alternative: (not a donkeys ear) It works extremely well. The only irritation is...

I think there's an original upstairs floor in Leeds Castle, Kent, that has been laid with butterfly keys. I say "think" because I visited a long time ago, so I might have got the wrong castle. But I remember being amazed and impressed at the work. You could always give the castle a ring - give...

I bought the replacement cast brass longer aduster yoke from Flinn Garlick - was about a tenner each I think. You need to cut and file a bit to fit, but I didn't need to open the mouth on either the Stanley or the Record... although I probably ought to do the Stanley. Neither of the factory...

Thanks Robbo! And thanks Phil, that's a nice way of putting it!

Sorry, but what's a fingernail grind in easy terms? *edit* just realised what a stupid question this is. Apologies.

Thank you! That was a really good film. Fascinating stuff. I liked how he tweaked the brass back in that jig thingy. I have a warped tenon, so I'm going to give that a go. Nothing lost!

I think my solution is slightly better. I make up passwords by randomly hitting keys and then saving them on to a removeable USB as text files. The USB is backed up elsewhere because I'm paranoid, but if it's not on the computer, nobody can steal it. I had trouble with passwords and paper with...

My dad's pal had a 1930 something MG TC. It got woodworm.

Just saying... My desk is 750 deep and I have a 27 inch monitor on it, which is a very nice size, but a strain on the eyes if I get too close to it, so I tend to sit back. The sketch shows 2 x 24 inch screens, which I presume are monitors, so 400 would be fairly close up and personal.

I don't see why some posters are so dismissive about HomeGrownHeroz's table photo. Similar things sell for quite a lot of money in the trendy shops in places like Shoreditch in London - reclaimed pallet furniture and the like. The look is deliberately crusty, but the furniture can be solidly...

I think you're right, toolsntat. I don't think mine was a bad plane - it did what it was bought for and I didn't have those problems as far as I can remember. But I've spent a lot of time faffing with it and I may never use it again in reality, so on consideration, I have just now ceremonially...

Wow. They look amazing.

Don't understand - do you mean using a countersink to soften the start of the thread in the knob? Would that be the same as going round it with a needle file?

Hi all and thanks for the ongoing comments. Sorry to say I gave up on it for the moment. It's on the shelf in bits looking forlorn. In reply though, david.tamlaght, the threaded rod looks fine. I did take it to the tool shop and the guys couldn't see anything wrong with it either, except for a...