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Thank Kieth,

Can you tell me the Issue number and date and I can dig it out of the school library collection. Thanks for your generosity though.

Chris

Just a quick question:

I am looking at buying a small set of quality chisels. I am deciding between japenese and western but am wondering about the concave on the back of the japenese. What...

Is there anyone out there willing to sell me (or donate to a small-school woodwork room) a copy of the poster that Tuanton Press produced of the Studley Tool Chest.

They are out of print.

My...

Over the years there has been this picture that floats around of a toolbox made by some American bloke that is simply brilliant in the compactness and quality of construction. There was pictures on...

Hi friends,

I have just finished making a really nice marking gauge out of Tassie Oak and Jarrah. Can people suggest an appropriate finish for a hand tool, bearing in mind that I would like to...

Thanks Dan and Macca,

I am unsure how the pen mill helps. If I am using wood stock that is about 20mm square the pen mill will only sqaure up a circle of diametre 12mm. Because this squared up bit...

I have just been giving pen making ago for the first time. I have some questions:

1. I can't seem to get the brass tubes from spinning on the mandrel. I had to turn/tightent the tailstock up so...

Can anyone help me with any sources for Cypress Pine.

I am in western suburbs of Sydney and am after seasoned Cypress. Dressed or rough sawn. I know I can get T and G flooring but I am getting...

What an age old question.

As a teenager starting to acquire my first handtools, I started a habit of keeping a spray like "DW40" up to my tools.

However, for a number of reasons it is far from...

I am a woodwork teacher.

I design and make tools with my students:
Mallet
Marking Gauge
Set Square etc

What would be the best (economical) oil to rub into the wood componants. I have been...

We can all be bad at this but what about returning tools.

Even If I have two catagories and I lend a tool from the lendable catagory out, I expect it to come staight back. My policy that I tell...

Here is my attempt at detailing a toolchest for a DIY/ homeowner. I ama woodwork and design teacher and I talk this over with my graduating students.




Parker Tool Chest

...

Try also:

The Plastics Centre
and
City West Plastics
and
my local glass shop also supplies - Cains Glass (Penrith)

I have purchased from the first two and the mark up for them to saw was...

Almost since the beginning of chat rooms and email all those years ago, it has been commonly accepted that capitals mean shouting/emotion.

Yeh, the argument about being able to read what you write...

Dear Suresh,

Can you suggest what I/we can do about this?

I dont want to have just read this and said that's bad and then just continue on my merry way. One does not truely know or understand...

What would be the best finish for shop made handtools made out of wood. For example:

Mallet
Marking Gauge

I am a high school woodwork teacher and I get my students to design and make both...

Andrew,

I reckon you should give it ago with the ol' triton 2000.

However, I would not take the full depth of cut in one go. I would take 2 or 3 passes to save the poor old makita. Will take...

I can play a pretty mean rackmaninov also - but it's not quite what I had in mind.

Chris

My favourite has basic shape of a panel saw handle with a flat base other than the 8 notch as already described. I love being able to grab onto it like the handle of a saw.

Chris

Thumbs up to pushsticks!

Can anyone share a really neat and space efficient way of racking files?

I will be needing to do class sets in a teaching workshop.

Chris

I am posting this question in this forum because it would seem to be more alive than the deicated Industrial Arts forums and I gather that there a lot of woodwork teachers browsing.

RISK...

Can anyone recomend a contact for getting a fixed dust extraction system put in our school workshop?

It is a small workshop:

Two lathes
Table saw
Bandsaw
Thicknesser
Two disc sanders
Drop...

I guess what I understand is similar ie the terms are much the same as clamp and cramp - it just depends on who you talk to or which book you read.

It would be interesting to know the history...

Fellow woodworkers,

I have an understanding of the difference between a rabbet and a rebate. But it would be nice to gain the collective wisdom from this community.

HOWEVER, what I am mostly...