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1. Swiss made Elu 1/2" collet- had 25 years

2.Italian made Elu 1/4" collet- 20 years

3. Makita Trimmer 1/4" collet-15 years

always done as they should! last biggish job was a quirky...

Hi Greg,
If you see a plane that seems a nice looking one and it's only $20, buy it. If it feels 'right', then it probably is.
You may have to lap the base and tickle it up a bit, but that just...

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Interesting post! We have just bought an old house in France, which has concrete floors...so similar problems with the damp as yourself. Curiously enough the house only has this damp because of...

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You're taking a break for dinner??.... just how serious a carpenter are you,Mark?

I like reading your posts; you seem a modest down-to-Earth person and I wish you all the best in your search...

Beautiful bench. I think the leg vise is brilliant and I intend stealing that idea. In fact I intend stealing all the ideas in it!
Andy.

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Just to make everything worse here's a page on Fibonacci and the Golden Section in Architecture and music etc, but it does go into stuff on furniture making and so on. I don't know how to link...

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As Alan wrote, in England the bottom rail is usually deeper than the top rail and stiles. In fact most doors (and wood windows, come to that) have top rail and stiles the same dimension. The...

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THe outside of your sash is where the glass is and so there will be a rebate for that to go into and that rebate is made deep enough to accept the glass and some method of holding the glass...

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Jud, I have to add that I think this is a project you could easily come unstuck over. To think of making the boxes and the sliding sashes without knowing whether they're springs or weights is...

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I have and use a 79.
It fact they must be wanted as I had one stolen from my toolbox years ago!!
A great and cheap(er) alternative to some others which might look prettier; but they all do...

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Thinking on Rick's post made me think back to an old guy I worked with who just had a saw and hammer. The saw was originally a 22" I guess but was down to about 17" from the sharpening. He musta...

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Turn the timber through 90 degrees so it looks into the blade ( when the blade is set at 90 degrees) and then you can cut any angle.

Andy.

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It's a really bad idea to use a bridle joint as the makers have lazily done with your door.
I also think screwing it together is not really the way forward as I think the wood could split with...

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Pigeons don't live in houses! They shelter where they can on ledges and the like and so your kindest way of dealing with this bird is to get the workshop finished pronto and put a ledge up...

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Could your Router be running out of true? Maybe try the same kind of test with a couple of bits and check your results to see if they're all out or not.
Andy.

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Probably a bit late in the day for a response, but I'm just reading the softcover book ' Fine Woodworking' on Joinery and the interesting article by Ian J Kirby.
I was brought up on the 1/3rds'...

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Beautiful job!

Andy.

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It's not really fair to blame the consumer for wanting a cheap deal. The companies move the goalposts all the time and people get wary of that kind of behaviour; Elu were a great Swiss...

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I learnt never to stand at the outfeed end of a large table saw.

I learnt this because I nearly got some unknown part of said table saw in my head. Whatever part it was went whistling...

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We laid bamboo flooring in some hotel rooms here in London and then found that it scratched really easily so we took it all up and threw it away! Lets face it, bamboo is a grass (and there's...

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When I drill out for door closers(similar idea) I think I would transfer that method to your shelf.

Clamp stuff to both sides of the shelf to discourage breakout by the drill. Stand the...

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Same message from across the pond- No gloves.

Andy.

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I hope you don't mind me rambling on. I think the problem would be the arc that it would be necessary to give to the leading edge of the door to allow it to open past the front corner of the...

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that doesn't look the same as mine certainly- and yet in your 1st photo above (of the 4) the blade is sitting as it should against the frog, even though the chipbreaker is raised off of it...

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My apologies for a crossing post earlier in the thread...now
at the risk of being thought a complete idiot....
...if the iron is being pulled up to the chipbreaker,then the iron has become...