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    Ideas for replacing hinges.

    Evening All, I've attached hinges to various things e.g. tool chest, boxes etc before without any difficulty as I found it to be a straightforward task. A friend of mine has a 20 yr old wooden wardrobe and with time the hefty doors have caused the screw holes for the hinges in the carcass to...
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    How much???

    The only sale I can imagine would involve a very wealthy couple where the wife decides that her husband - who perhaps fancies himself as a bit of a handyman e.g. prepared to change a fuse, tighten a screw etc - should have a nice toolkit for his birthday. Said wife wouldn't know what e.g. a...
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    How much???

    Please tell me I'm missing something about this tool kit which justifies the price...
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    Dividers for book shelves

    Thanks Phil. That's another very useful resource. I had to grin at the illustrating photos though as not one of them was showing something which was functioning as what I would regard as a book case i.e. stuffed full of books.
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    Dividers for book shelves

    Thanks! That really is most useful and interesting. It turns out that my plan is well within acceptable limits. Have we got a "resources" bit of the forum where that could be linked to? I'm sure I'm not the only one who would benefit from it.
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    Dividers for book shelves

    My shelves will be 3/4 inch pine, so if I do go for the central divider, I imagine that sagging will not be a factor.
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    Dividers for book shelves

    Thanks for the central divider idea. I'll have a good think about that. Shelf adjustment will not be a matter for me, because the size of my books will dictate the spacing. For instance the bottom shelf will be the highest for the bigger books. Most of the rest are hardbacks and they demand a...
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    Dividers for book shelves

    Thanks for the suggestion, Andy but as I am building it from scratch and I quite fancy the challenge of building the dividers into it. I think I'll have a bash at doing it with housing joints, as it will demand bang on marking, which I think is a useful and beneficial challenge. It will also...
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    Dividers for book shelves

    Thanks for the replies, gentlemen. Mike, that's quite reassuring as I intend to give it a back. In my previous attempt at a bookcase (3 ft wide), the back was of 1/2" tulip wood and it was nailed through into the edges of the shelves, so that provided of lot of rigidity, probably more than...
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    Dividers for book shelves

    Hello All, I'm about to start work on a pine bookcase. The individual shelves will be about 5 ft long and I can't see any harm having vertical dividers to support them. My question is about the joinery: they will obviously connect the top of one shelf to the bottom of another. Would you use...
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    If there was one hand tool which you would like to see made again.

    I have half a memory of the German firm Kunz making compass planes but it looks like they may have stopped. Some dealers still stock replacement blades but this is the only one I found selling the plane...
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    If there was one hand tool which you would like to see made again.

    My Footprint drill is simpler than the one you linked to: it is a conventional eggbeater design i.e. with no handle coming out at an angle. If I remember aright, Bridge City once did an eggbeater and it occasionally crops up second hand at high prices. I'm sure it's highly functional but it...
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    Peter Follansbee (and other) carving

    I love that pair of swans. How did you cope with knot just right of centre at the bottom? I imagine it must be very difficult.
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    If there was one hand tool which you would like to see made again.

    The only tool I have for which I'm thinking of getting a spare copy as a sort of insurance policy is my footprint eggbeater drill. This is because the one I have is so reliable and never lets me down but also because it comes with a chuck key which of course means that you can get the jaws...
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    Useful Tricks

    The stuff on this clip is new to me. I really like 1,2 and 4, don't understand 3 at all and 5 looks useful. I guess that some of the old and bold on here will know this already.
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    Why use a stepped drill bit here?

    Thanks for all the replies. It looks like it might be useful to have one in the armoury. On the other hand, I can't see myself rushing out to get one.
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    Why use a stepped drill bit here?

    I have just watched a YouTube clip of a chap building a wall mounting for a Bosch table top drill: At around 8:36 mins he uses a stepped drill bit (which I had never seen before) and I can't for the life of me work out why. Info from dealers says that they are principally used in drilling...
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    Jig for glueing up mitres

    I must admit that I am not too crazy about them and have only made them a couple of times. I ended up cheating by connecting them with dowels. On the plus side of the video though: would that not be a case of once you've made the jig, you've got a quick and easy solution for all mitre glue ups...
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    Jig for glueing up mitres

    What do you think of this: It popped up on my YouTube feed. It looks convincing but I wonder what those of you with professional experience think. BTW, you might want to turn the sound down: I found the music to be a bit much.
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    Fantasy Tool Box - coopering plane

    Derek, I think I may have written this a couple of years back but here goes again: you need to get all your projects down in a single book and get it published by someone like the LAP. I'd buy it, not that I'd ever have the bottle to try any of the projects.😁
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