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Thank you for your detailed reply David. Much appreciated.
Catherine

My husband reckons it's king billy or baltic pine but I'm not good at identifying wood types myself. We were going to strip all the paint off to show off the wood but unfortunately it will now have...

Looking for some advice.

Someone was asked to trim 5mm off the edge of an old door I was planning to salvage to replace my back door. Unfortunately they did not set things up well with a guide...

OK, so I tried disassembling the GMC router motor housing to see if it could be attached to a homemade router table. This thing is not designed to be taken apart. :(

The way it works is difficult...

Yes, I saw and admired your elegant router table on the forum. :2tsup:

I am pleased to hear that the cheap Ryobi has worked out ok so I will go down that track if my attempts to use the old GMC...

Good idea and one I have explored to some extent.

Being a cheap one, the table is not made to be dissembled easily and I doubt the metal top could be un-bowed.

I had already removed the motor...

Thanks David, which model is it?

Hi all
I know there are a lot of threads about this issue and believe me I have looked at many of them, so hope it’s ok if I start another one for my specific issue.
I had a GMC router table with...

Do you mean tongue and groove flooring? I have a big piece of mdf that someone gave me. It's thicker than 20mm but I'm not sure how thick, but it's flayed on the edges due to moisture and I think...

Thanks Sleepy, that's a very nice top and the bench looks sturdy.

Thanks bsrlee, I have been looking at a video of Chris Schwarz building a workbench (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyt4a_1G9zk) and it has given me some food for thought. I had borrowed one of...

Sounds great, can you post a photo?

Thank you Sawdust Maker, the lift-up castors are here: https://www.machineryhouse.com.au/W935

I thought when I saw the price on the Rockler site that these castors would be way out of my price...

Not confusing at all and very helpful, I am now going over my previous plans which involved making the frame using laminated 45x90mm hardwood stock. Seems like that might be the best approach after...

Would you have a link to those rubberwood benchtops on the Bunnings site 62woollybugger? I can't seem to find them so maybe they don't do them any more.
Thanks

Thank you 62woollybugger I will read through that thread with interest.
Catherine

Thank you for all the useful info David.


This is what I had feared. I agree it's difficult to check the sheets in the shop and because I usually have someone from the shop helping me I find it...

Thank you for your prompt reply Ian. I had another look at the Bunnings beech vs. acacia and note that the beech appears to be unfinished ("Oil or stain as required"), while the acacia is "Surface...

I am planning my first workbench and although I have thought long and hard about the design of the bench and all the features I would like to incorporate, studied several library books on building a...

I'm in

I did try drilling straight down into a piece of scrap. It was a bit harder than drilling with a normal drill bit but not as difficult
as the last bit of the pocket hole seems to be.
I just...

Thank you for all your helpful suggestions. I had already checked that the drill was rotating in the correct direction - the effect I was getting
was rather like the feel of a drill rotating the...

I hope I'm not doubling up here, I searched for other threads about this topic and found a few but none were
exactly about the problem I'm having and they were all pretty old, so here goes.

I...

Thank you socratous, that's a very clear explanation.

Please malb, would you explain what the arbour is? I'm wondering how I can tell if my table saw will take a 19mm dado blade. Thanks.

Thank you for all the responses to my query. These forums really are a great resource for beginners like me. Catherine:)

Thanks Graeme, you've prompted me to look into workbench design more fully before I start. I had planned to make the workbench in issue 67 of Australian Woodsmith magazine (see Welcome to Australian...

I'm originally from Sydney where we obtained some beautiful recycled hardwood and made a much admired coffee table (weighs a ton and needs two men to move it, even when separated into two parts). I'd...

Hope this isn't too dumb a question but my locally available rough sawn Blackwood is 25mm thick. Is the intention that when this is dressed it will yield 19mm thick stock? Up till now I've always...

That's a beautiful workbench. I'm just embarking on building my first workbench. I notice that the jaw on your front vice is not attached to the part with the handle, but is inside a kind of...

I've noticed that the editor of Australian Woodsmith magazine uses the table saw for just about anything - he's obviously mad about it. He uses a dado blade to cut tenons, grooves and rebates. He...