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Do you need to fix anything to the concrete ? You could build a free standing structure inside the concrete walls, each "wall" just wedged in position until the others are there to support it.. Here in France I would use the steel channels that are sold for dry lining with the insulation set...

Carbide tipped 200mm (or was it 210mm ?) with 30mm mounting circular saw blades from LIDL for about 10€ if I remember rightly. Some with big ripping teeth, some with finer teeth for cross cutting. None of them up to the standard of full price blades of course but just what I needed for the...

It's brilliant stuff. I used it on all the exterior doors and windows on a recent house restoration. It holds well in the slot and retains its form well even when used in compression, also it does not stretch in the length when fitting and retract after like some products.. Highly recommended.

Brilliant ! I have suffered on and off for years without ever thinking of finding a solution. Thanks guys for the various alternative solutions !!!

Thick work piece on a small bandsaw is hard going. The experts say you should have around 3-5 teeth max in the work or the blade cant clear the sawdust. 14tpi and 80mm is more like 50 teeth in the work. However, for bandsaw boxes you dont have much choice as a coarse blade will be too wide...

Around here in Limousin there are loads of local sawmills offering oak, chestnut and sometimes ash and cherry. Not cheap though... For my last project I bought air dried live edge oak boards 3m long 27mm thick for around 1300€/m3.

That's really sad, Bob will be greatly missed. He found and restored a Fobco pillar drill for me some years ago, all I paid for was the the parts - a generous man and a great help on electrical matters.

Hi everyone ! I'm retired, living in Haute Vienne in central France. A longtime woodworker and general DIYer. My workshop (mainly woodworking) is in the barn attached to our house, reasonably well equipped : table saw, band saw, planer, thicknesser, spindle moulder, hollow chisel morticer...