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Freud dado blades come in both 5/8" and 30mm

The whole of Europe can not use dado blades on machines less than 5-6 years old when safety laws included shorter arbors so only one blade could be used and blade brakes had to be on all new saws. ...

The process used for pressure treated timber was originally intended to produce non warping timber.
In the mid to late 60s timber was put in a vacuum tank which removed all the moisture.
As timber...

A planer thicknesser combines a jointer used to flatten and square up the timber with a thickness planer feeding the timber on rollers.
With a planer/thicknesser you have to lift the jointer bed out...

I was going to buy a DW625 for table use with raised panel bits etc but finally decided on the Trend T11.
The Trend is made by DeWalt as an update to the DW625 but can be raised from both top and...

I live approx 2 miles from the old Moorlands match factory that became part of the Bryant & May group.
During it's heyday all the timber needed was imported from the baltic giving rise to many...

If it was important for looks and not cut through the drawers I would be tempted to buy a drawer pull cutter for my router.
They are a bit too expensive for something I am not likely to use much....

I have one of the cheapest biscuit jointers in UK which is indexed for 6 different biscuit depths.
The smallest is the 0 at 8mm but is also has settings for simplex & duplex biscuits at depths of 13...

The Jessem plate is advertised in UK as being pre drilled to take any router.
They have not yet found a router that will not fit.
In UK the Rout-r-lift is £160 with the full table system at £500....

When I first bought my bench jointer I couldn't figure out why every piece of wood had snipe.
I practiced with different methods of holding the wood yet still had snipe on every piece.
I then...

I use the ukworkshop forum as well as the routerforum in the states and AskTheTrades and the Screwfix forum along with a few visits to a number of other forums.

Getting home with a new tool and trying it out on loads of scrap pieces of wood until I can use it with my eyes closed (almost) and know all its foibles.
The same with an old plane that takes hours...

I go to a forum on the other side of the world and find CHJ almost on my doorstep.
Except that the Cotswolds covers a large area. ;)

I find it strange reading about the DW621 having a 1/2" collett as in UK the 621 is a 1/4" router with the DW625 & 626 being the 1/2" models.
The 625 is the workhorse of most pros here, in fact it...

The Festool is the router to drool over and it is advertised as being able to be used one handed.
The real workhorse used by many pros for its comfort of use when hand held most of the day and also...

I tried using the jointer fence on my router table and was very disappointed with the result despite setting the cutter level with the outfield fence.
I then bought a bench jointer which is perfect...

I have never tried this myself but know of a very old method of waterproofing close grained hardwood.
If you can get the water mark out try using petroleum jelly (Vaseline) as the finish.
Like many...

I have plenty on top its just the beard that is white.
Its been like that for over 15 years.

Norms wirligig might suit me but it would need a different paint job.
Instead of the black beard mine would need white paint. lmao

For years I used a tenon saw for cutting both tenons and dovetails in softwood but used my granfathers (a cabinet maker) old gents saw for finer work.
A few years ago I started using power tools as...

I tried cutting mitres on the table saw.
First using the mitre gauge and then by tilting the blade to 45°.
Neither was any good.
I bought a hand mitre saw and found the blade running off as it cut...

I was wondering whether all tools were rusting or just some.
The first thing my father told me when I started my engineering apprenticeship was about 'rusty fingers'.
Some people sweat far more...

To me the reason for using recycled timber is that it has aged naturally to a different colour that when new and that it has done all the moving it is likely to.
The demand for timber is so great...

As soon as I saw the question I was going to say French cleats as the strongest option.
They have the advantage that if you decide to move the cabinet, move house or just decorate it just lifts off...

It's a pity it needs polishing although using a small drill to remove the decayed wood and plugging it with a strong filler might be an option provided the holes cant be seen below the screw heads....

I made my own computer desk and know it could not get through any normal door without taking it apart.
It is 36" (915mm) front to back and 7' (2.1m) long.
The 2 drawer, door units are 22" (560mm)...

30 years in engneering on a milling machine, amongst others, and steel splinters were a regular thing.
I used a round needle file that I kept to a very sharp point as a splinter probe.
It was, and...

NewLou is dead right about horses for courses.
Everyone finds they use certain tools far more than others.
Many swear by a bandsaw as being indispensible because you can rip, crosscut and follow...

I had the same thought as most of the others.
There are as many coffee table ideas as there are people who would want them.
I've never used a plan.
I make the coffee table to fit the place it will...

Youre a right one to go on about going off-track womble.

Underground overground wombling free
The Wombles of Wimbledon common are we.

They dont make songs like they used to do. (thank...

With our American cousins pronouncing route as root I'm surprised that that their woodworkers dont use rooters instead of routers. :D

The first time I used an American chat program and typed that I rolled fags I got auto bounced out for 30 minutes. When I got back someone in the room asked what happened so I said what I had typed...

A core ding two mye inglish teechur eye nevur did lurn too speek inglich wright an propper :D

I know I spelled rabbet as rabbit but that was just poetic license.
It took me years of watchin 'Neighbours' to learn Australian meanings let alone yankee English.
My old school headmaster must be...

Dovetails on drawers are half blind so dont show except when the drawer is opened.
You could always go mad and used a secret, mitred dovetail but that is a joint that is the pinacle of a good...

I can only go by what my father and grandfather used to say.
Seeing endgrain showed that the person who made the piece didn't know how to make decent joints.
I have a pine chest of drawers made by...

I'm surprised that resin cleaner isn't freely availible in Australia.
Most woodworking suppliers sell it in UK.
I get mine from a discount supplier here. Srewfix resin cleaner
It goes a long way....

Lining up a mortice bit takes a bit of getting used to.
The easiest way is to make a template that buts against the fence of the morticer.
Lower the bit into the template to straighten then clamp...

I use a biscuit jointer for joining boards for table tops and for facing plywood shelves in cabinets.
I'd never use them instead of M/T or dovetails which provide more strength.
Come home after a...

I always use a forstner bit for the counterbore followed by a brad point bit for the through hole.

After a lifetime working on steel in a toolroom I work the opposite to when drilling bolt...

A 'dado' when applied to saw blades is an American term for a trench or housing.
They never did learn that a dado is a rail around a room to protect the wall from chair backs.
A stopped dado is a...

Square drives are a rarity in UK so seldom used.
I dont see the drive most used here on the list.
Posidrive everytime since I first tried them in the 60s.
Never gone back to slotted.
I never use...

It wouldnt work steck.
A plug cutter cuts across the grain and the hole is at 15° with the grain.
If a plug is glued in then chiseled and sanded flat the grain pattern will be different to the...

The idea of pocket hole joints is that you use them where they wont be seen.
i.e. on the back of a cupboard face frame.
These are fixed so although they can be felt if you run your fingers behind...

A Lutyens bench is one of the most demanding benches to make which would take almost every tool in a wel equiped shop.
A more suitible one would be a standard bench used in many parks which is...

Squirt, it's a pity you cant see a series shown on UK satellite last year.
Smith and Sweetam are 2 totally different cabinet makers who had great respect for eachother and produced some beautiful...

That popular mechanics has a number of good woodworking ideas.
I am interested in using an overarm router with an X-Y axis table to act like a small vertical mill.
Someone on the USA routerforum...

The only time I have seen these mills was on New Yankee Workshop where it was a three man job.
The portable bandsaw had a depth stop built in so 2 men held it, one either side.
A third man was...

I made a simple jig out of MDF to cut tenons with my 1/4" router.
I start with a slightly smaller bit going deeper with each cut until I get to te full depth then change to a 1/2" bit to finish off....

Wouldn't touch you with someone elses barge pole Zed. :D :D