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Surely you'd want to prototype each holder before it went out??? Gift or not. Struggling to keep up with all your projects, so may have to bow out here. Best of luck though.

Roger, do you have any higher resolution pictures of that table set. I'm curious of the joinery used, particularly for the chair in the foreground. Good effort for a first attempt at chairs in any case

Not really to be honest. If I understand correctly, you're talking about making a tenon the thickness of the board that is forming the mechanical joint and the mortice into the table top and bottom. That just isn't how furniture is designed. Not only is a mortice and tenon joint difficult...

Who did the design? If it was a professional such as a chartered architect, you can claim against their insurance. That could be even if you have rectified it yourself by now.

The Help to Buy scheme is a twist on the 125% mortgage. It's really very simple. Either someone can afford to buy a particular house at the current market rate, or they can't. Help to Buy encourages people who can't afford a house, to buy a house. If they could afford it they wouldn't need...

Forbes survey, sponsored by the Department for Exiting the European Union. lol I'd love to know how that is compiled, I really would. I'm 50/50 on the whole thing, but it seems ridiculous to rank a country in political turmoil as the best place to do business in the world.

I'm going to stick with my original post. If you really want quality you either have to stump up the cash, or go vintage. Stanley and Record, sadly, are now a shadow of their former selves. The products now have no resemblance to the same products from 30+ years ago aside from form. The...

I personally don't stain wood. It's just not for me. If I want the wood to be a different colour, I buy a different species from the outset. Of course thats just me. Regarding Danish Oil. Your mileage may vary. There are varying blends, it's not a standard formula. It isn't the most hard...

The boards you're looking at are already edge jointed it seems. In this case, they are using the term "laminated" to mean glued edge to edge. so there will be many thinner strips glued edge on to form a much wider section of stock. If it's bare wood, it will accept stain relatively well but be...

Do we have any cigar experts on here by any chance? I need to buy a box of cigars as I'm having friends around for Christmas. I've got my hand on some fine speyside malt and need the perfect cigar to match. As a youngster I liked Cohiba, but can't remember which type and I've no idea if they...

Fair point, some saws are quite quick for metal.

James, 300mm wide timber can be purchased, but you'll pay through the nose. I'd suggest two sections of 150mm width. You could go narrower, but there is more chance of error when jointing them. Edge jointing timber properly isn't straight forward for a beginner, but can be done with care...

Did you settle on your requirements yet? 8" or 10" etc. If you can stretch to £250, there is a decent Bosch, the GCM8 SJL. The price has dropped on it in the past year or two and it might be worth investigating why, in case they have cut corners, but at £250, it's an absolute steal. I...

To solve the break out issue, just use a sacrificial board over/behind where the breakout is occurring. Make sure its all secured properly before cutting. I tend to use a sacrificial fence (countersunk screwed on to the saws built in fence) and table most of the time. MDF is best, say 12mm...

I wouldn't worry. Either the OP has resolved his dilemma, or drowned himself in a bucket of bleach out of sheer frustration. Cost for industrial machinery? Used, it's what someones prepared to pay for it at the time. It comes up regularly at auction, though.

My comment was about how to rebate such a small piece of MDF safely with a router, not the repair. lol

I'd say you lucked out there then, thats great. I don't think I've ever been that lucky, even with industrial grade stuff, it's always had to have some attention on site for calibration issues. I know what you're saying about that test being accurate for 90 degrees, but we're not only talking...

I think thats fine for a rough check over. You're missing quite a few things out and assuming surfaces are flat, coplanar and so on. Also, checking square like that involves quite a lot of trial and error, but I suppose it could be sped up if you did it a lot. On our F45 theres a guy that...

Yup, they are top bits of kit, we have an F45 down at the boat yard in Spain, not that I have much use for such a beast myself. In that class, yeah, I'd expect reasonably accurate mitres and the gauge to be spot on. But to calibrate it, you'd need what...call it £5k worth of reference angles...

Seems DHH have it listed but unavailable. I'll speak to Lathams, looks like they do it. They aren't local so I dont think I asked. Cheers for the heads up.