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On 29th August I plan to drive from Lane Cove, Sydney to Yarrawonga along the Hume Highway in an almost empty ute. Returning about 4th September.

Andrew

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I use a wooden mallet with a big head rather than a hammer. Also I try not to do steel work on the bench as residual iron filings can leave nasty black stains on wood. And I rarely use nails.
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I used recycled Oregon for most of my bench - including the

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f213/ruobo-bench-98459/#post976154

After two years I have no regrets and it is certainly...

Right leg models come with the pedal on the other side :U

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I built one recently from one of Roy Underhill's book. As you can see from the clamps it still needs some refinement.

Andrew

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Do you mean these?
Mortised Bench Stop - Lee Valley Tools

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A book I recommend is:

The Essential Woodworker by Robert Wearing

It is more hand tools than power tools but it has a lot of good suggestions and techniques how to build furniture.

I...

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i bought from lee valley
Auriou Rasps & Rifflers - Lee Valley Tools - Woodworking Tools, Gardening Tools, Hardware Supplies
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the best things
Hand-Cut French Rasps at The Best Things
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THese are very useful:
Veritas® Dogs & Pups - Lee Valley Tools - Woodworking Tools, Gardening Tools, Hardware Supplies
as are these:
Veritas® Hold-Down - Lee Valley Tools

I would start...

Enjoy

Andrew

An interesting variation on the same them is:

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their...

Alex, thanks for the shopping tip. And thanks to every one else for the nice feedback.

Andrew

Hi, the wings are for hooking the pins of earrings and brooches. There are upholstery tacks in the top stiles of the doors for hanging necklaces.

Andrew

Alex

Thanks for the the tips. Can you recommend a good place to buy the leather on the North Shore?

Andrew

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The finish is Organoil "Danish Oil". Its about 23" high x 16" wide. The bottoms of the drawers are covered with flocking. I still have not perfected the technique for that. I rushed to complete...

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This is a cabinet for my niece's 21st. The plans are from Doug Stowe's book "Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques". The main wood is Australian Cedar with the wood for the panels of...

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Carbetec also sell ferrules but they are not easy to cut (DAMHIK). The ferrules are not very long so it is hard to get a grip on them.

Andrew

I'm in if we can land them for less than $50

Andrew

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How successful are edge-trimming planes like Veritas?

Thanks

Andrew

Geoff

Well done

Andrew

according to my dictionary it is a dowel - literally a wooden nail.

andrew

They are from Dad's collection but the crazy thing is that I have not found the matching socket chisels. He may have picked them up at a clearing sale.

Andrew

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Found some more Titan chisel handles. The bottom is the same as originally posted.

All the best

Andrew

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When I built my deck I made three wooden T-pieces with the vertical of the T set to the inter-board space. You then drop them between the last fixed board and the next one and get a fixed...

Still a lot of wood left. And Ken is very helpful and great to deal with.

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Attached are pictures of a Titan socket chisel handle on graph paper. The graph paper is one inch scale with 10 divisions per inch. If you would like more details please PM

Andrew

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I have an unused Titan socket chisel handle I can measure. (Wont be able to do it until the weekend though)

Andrew

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You need to move the mouse cursor down to the bottom left of the cell and drag the little square box that appears.

Good luck

Andrew

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My vise follows Chris Schwartz's design with a slot through the bottom of the bench leg, a wooden beam and a wooden peg through one of the holes in the beam. The wooden peg has not broken yet...

Hi, I have one of these under a 10HB table saw (190Kg) on a concrete floor. It does not move unless you push it fairly hard. It has a couple of pads that act as brakes (one did not fit correctly) but...

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Rabbit traps are set in the ground so it is more like a small maddick. Rabbit traps also have a steel peg so the animal does not escape with the trap. So the hammer end is to drive that peg...

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My original order was for Figured Tasmanian Blackwood which I will stay with.

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Andrew

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Timbecon have these:

http://www.timbecon.com.au/products/milescraft-accessories-579_0.aspx

Good luck

Andrew

Hi, please put me down for Number 6 with Gidgee handles.

Thanks

Andrew

Hi, if you are following Chris Schwarz's design and cutting mortices into the top for the legs you will need a lifting device (135 Kgs). It is better to lift it perpendicular to drop it onto the...

Thanks. I will take some over the weekend,

Andrew

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I am refurbishing an old, roughly made stool with sentimental value. The top is a single square of solid wood about 350 mm x 350 mm x 8mm. What is the best method of attaching the top to the...

waveink, what style of bench are you going to make? If you plan on making a roubo style bench with a laminated 150 x 40 top say 600 wide there would be 15 boards. That will be fairly heavy and you...

Just watch the small print on Rockler. There was an extra $15 charge for shipping as well as the shipping cost on an order I recently placed.

Andrew

Attached is a list of exhibitors sorted by stand numbers. (I had trouble finding companies on the floorplan).

And the FrameCo is listed.

Andrew

Wongdai

The deadman has a tongue that slides into a groove in the bottom of the bench top. The trick is to get the length of the tongue and the depth of the groove correct so that the tongue will...

Yes the the movement is not so easy. After reading his comments about dropping the top and cracking the edge I was so paranoid I did not want to take too many risks. I have not used it yet and you...

Richard

I followed Chris Schwartz's design fairly closely so yes the legs are morticed into the top. The legs are 4 planks glued together and the middle two are protruding by the depth of the...

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The design of this comes from Chris Schwarz's book. It is 6' long and 26" wide. The main wood is recycled Oregon and the scrappy bit on the vise is some old recycled hardwood from a stable. The...

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I found the tutorials on this site very useful (link originally mentioned by someone else on this forum):
http://sketchupforwoodworkers.com/

Andrew

Do you mean like one of these from The Wood Works:
http://www.thewoodworks.com.au/site/browse.html&pg=1001783

Andrew

Hi, there is a special set of self-tapping screws for use with steel frames. I am building a kit steel frame house and there seems to be a million different types of screws that are needed. The other...

What about a Carbetec shoulder vise screw?

I have a chair from my grandfather's surgery that has threaded height adjustment shaft. It is certainly larger than 1/2".

Andrew

Hi, is this the guy behind the shops? I am interested in the details as I tried to contact him with no luck.

Thanks

Andrew

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One site that sells 3m respirators is BOC.
https://boc.com.au/b2c_au/b2c/display/(xcm=CRM_PBC_006&layout=6_1_60_49_5_2&uiarea=2&ctype=areaDetails&carea=478A86D036EC02E1E1008000A16402CA)/.do
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