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Forum: HINTS & TIPS

This forum is open to all comers with hints and tips on anything at all to do with renovating and allied crafts, trades, skills, techniques, etc.

  1. Angry Sticky Thread Sticky: Please Read This

    Started by Neil, 24th August 2003 02:15 AM
    administrators, agree, bit, board, bulletin, business, button, clicking, denigrate, eye, fight, forums, information, law, material, message, messages, moderators, odd, owner, person, post, posts, prepared, read, register, slander, spirit, time, woodwork
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 8,827
    Neil
    24th August 2003, 02:15 AM Go to last post

  1. Planer snipe video

    Started by Shutterbug, 6th February 2010 10:43 PM
    mike, planer, snipe, video
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,477
    Harry72
    23rd February 2010, 09:16 PM Go to last post

  2. Re-gluing veneer

    Started by katherine6, 1st January 2010 06:20 PM
    box, bunnings, card, corners, curl, filing, glue, guy, katherine6, library, lift, lifting, nail, pin, re-gluing, regluing, split, timber, veneer, wood, worried
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 4,278
    jerryc
    6th January 2010, 09:34 AM Go to last post

  3. Woodworking classes? - finishing mainly

    Started by ashcook, 26th December 2009 01:54 PM
    ash, birthday, classes, difficult, directly, dive, finishing, helpful, hey, hours, inquired, methods, money, newcastle/sydney/nsw, parents, past, pay, pretty, questions, teach, tricks, unique, unknown, wife, woodworking
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,545
    ashcook
    30th December 2009, 08:08 PM Go to last post

  4. Remodeling Kitchen/Bath - Where to Begin???

    Started by msmiller36, 26th December 2009 05:55 AM
    bath, begin, call, complicated, contractor, cost, designer, figure, home, ideas, job, kitchen, kitchen or bath, kitchen/bath, major, master, moved, redo, remodeling, specific, start, starting, store, thinking, tia
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,764
    opelblues
    26th December 2009, 12:02 PM Go to last post

  5. Snipe from Thicknesser

    Started by Black Bear, 2nd December 2009 04:05 PM
    avoid, bit, bits, blades, board, cutting, discovered, experiment, guarrantee, helps, inch, inches, instance, lengtth, piece, pieces, recently, sacraficial, sign, snipe, starting, thickness, thicknesser, thicknessing, timber, time, wide, width
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 3,364
    Fencepost2
    3rd December 2009, 06:42 PM Go to last post

  6. Getting glue into splits in timber

    Started by Black Bear, 2nd December 2009 03:58 PM
    adn, amount, attached, clamp, clamping, clean, cork, deep, ensure, enters, excess, glue, hav, hit, hypo, hypodermic, joking, larger, needle, pressure, pva, repair, sharp, split, splits, syringe, timber, time, vet, wipe
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,181
    Black Bear
    2nd December 2009, 03:58 PM Go to last post

  7. toothpaste to remove water marks on wood furniture

    Started by blackhole, 26th November 2009 07:13 AM
    combats, furniture, household, lifehacker, marks, remove, toothpaste, water, wood, wooden
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 3,754
    Christos
    29th November 2009, 11:13 AM Go to last post

  8. Thumbs up Jointing without a jointer

    Started by Afro Boy, 24th October 2009 08:10 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    allowing, blade, board, bottom, carefully, cheers, cut, enjoy, equal, festool, gap, guide, half, join, jointer, jointing, kerf, line, mate, middle, nicely, panels, pieces, run, shelf, table, top, track, ts-55, widened
    • Replies: 15
    • Views: 5,531
    Shedhand
    16th November 2009, 07:25 PM Go to last post

  9. Safety Tip

    Started by wheelinround, 22nd October 2009 01:04 PM
    ball, bench, board, bruising, connects, corner, drill, fell, heavy, kilos, lost, matters, melamine, ooc, personal, photos, prevented, safety, sitting, situationdoh, slides, slippage, stool, straight, takes, tender, tip, vice, wheels, ~no
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 2,403
    Foo
    24th October 2009, 07:56 PM Go to last post

  10. Lousy day.

    Started by RETIRED, 13th October 2009 07:45 PM
    1mm, angle, bit, break, cabinet, charring, cold, cut, cuts, cutting, day, done.d, final, fit, glue, grinder, heap, jig, jobs, lousy, motorhome, ply, smoke, straw, stuff, thin, towel, wet, wheel, windy
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 2,283
    RETIRED
    19th October 2009, 11:04 PM Go to last post

  11. New use for old kitchen bits

    Started by Bob38S, 13th October 2009 11:25 AM
    bits, bob, bottom, cupboard, cut, door, double, drawers, excess, faceplate, grinders, handles, kitchen, loose, normal, operate, oven, overhead, provided, rack, recycling, sanders, stand, top, tops, tower, unit, units, upside, wood
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,294
    Bob38S
    15th October 2009, 11:03 AM Go to last post

  12. A real Doh moment

    Started by jmk89, 13th July 2009 06:07 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    blue, board, book, bought, cover, cricket, dads, dark, doh, edge, kids, moment, olds, opaque, outlines, penfolds, quick, real, roll, shadowd2tsup, shadows, simple, spot, stationers, stuff, thinking, tool, traced, wall, watching
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 5,196
    Tonyz
    2nd October 2009, 12:24 PM Go to last post

  13. pegboard + zip ties

    Started by blackhole, 20th September 2009 11:58 AM
    pegboard, ties, zip
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,532
    blackhole
    20th September 2009, 11:58 AM Go to last post

  14. Making your own filler from sawdust

    Started by Gary Carter, 22nd April 2009 06:39 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    anticipation, blemishes, entry, experts, fill, filler, forum, found, gary, glue, hoping, lacquer, making, match, mixing, nails, nitrocellulose, past, path, punched, pva, read, sawdust, set, suggested, suggestions, timber, time, useless
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 25,430
    Johncs
    12th September 2009, 12:27 AM Go to last post

  15. So obvious when you think about it

    Started by FXST01, 5th May 2008 08:09 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    bent, identical, jobs, magazines, measure, measures, obvious, project, reading, tape, tip, tips, woodworking
    • Replies: 27
    • Views: 7,876
    len07
    31st July 2009, 12:28 AM Go to last post

  16. Talking Any ideas on how to make a platform bed

    Started by shimandm, 11th September 2005 01:32 AM
    attempt, bed, chunkier, corner, easy, extras, fast, female, ideas, learn, legs, lil, make, plans, platform, sort, suppliers, type, wood
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 38,228
    tea lady
    29th July 2009, 11:26 AM Go to last post

  17. Storing tools in steel cabinet

    Started by Spencer74, 5th August 2007 01:09 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    adjustable, appreciated, cabinet, cabinets, cheapish, clamp, crazy, fantastic, garage, left, lern, line, lockable, mistakes, picked, plane, rusting, safe, secondhand, shelf, shelves, started, steel, storage, storing, tips, tools
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 9,323
    32hyb
    14th June 2009, 08:06 PM Go to last post

  18. Website loaded with tips, articles FAQs

    Started by rsser, 13th November 2008 08:33 AM
    articles, faqs, loaded, tips, website
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 4,336
    rsser
    7th June 2009, 07:38 PM Go to last post

  19. electric jigsaw question

    Started by kurenai, 20th April 2009 07:02 PM
    5cm, angle, appreciated, beautiful, bending, blade, block, cut, cutting, draw, electric, fijian, greatly, held, horrible, inspect, jigsaw, job, loving, mahogany, messed, question, shape, slab, texter, thick, thin, time, tips, woodworking
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 3,104
    Wood Borer
    21st April 2009, 11:29 PM Go to last post

  20. rolling up electrical leads

    Started by mic-d, 15th February 2009 04:53 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    anchor, bight, bundling, cables, chargers, description, easy, electrical, feed, helps, hope, knot, leads, length, loop, mate, pile, plug, pronged, pull, rolling, simply, slip, sound, tangle, tie, tools, unravels, untangled, web
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 7,881
    johnf888
    19th April 2009, 10:50 PM Go to last post

  21. template for rockers

    Started by cadeuceus, 9th March 2009 09:46 PM
    based, bit, brio, buys, cradle, curvature, curved, daughter, expensive, gavin, helps, hope, identical, literally, love, loves, minutes, plywood, purchased, rockers, rocking, smooth, stuff, template, thinking, tip, toy, track, train, wife
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,979
    cadeuceus
    15th March 2009, 08:35 PM Go to last post

  22. Just a quickie

    Started by Bob38S, 19th February 2009 11:29 AM
    bench, bit, bits, black, bob, bought, camping, clean, couple, dry, dusty, easy, front, hose, job, locked, mart, mats, pack], quickie, sanding, sawdust, set, slippage, spare, special, surface, swept, trailer, underneath
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,934
    AlexS
    19th February 2009, 12:44 PM Go to last post

  23. Best Five Dollar Investment

    Started by Penpal, 15th January 2009 07:47 AM
    8mm, barred, coated, device, dollar, fencing, heavy, investment, morning, oversize, peter2tsup, pool, real, series, sheetgoods, shifting, solid, steel, stuff
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 3,537
    Vernonv
    15th January 2009, 11:36 AM Go to last post

  24. Thumbs up Help?

    Started by ronnoc, 8th January 2009 04:09 PM
    build, cuts, plz, somthing, straight
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,562
    mic-d
    8th January 2009, 04:32 PM Go to last post

  25. Tea Lady need a Hint

    Started by wheelinround, 26th December 2008 11:33 AM
    boke, broke, christmas, cups, epoxy, fell, handle, hint, lady, loml, nice, rack, real, roll, sadly, set, suggestions, tea
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,253
    wheelinround
    28th December 2008, 09:21 AM Go to last post

  26. Improved accuracy and readability of ripping fence gauge

    Started by mikm, 24th November 2008 04:59 PM
    accuracy, attached, cut, dressmakers, error, fence, fix, gauge, guide, improved, index, line, lines, liquid, measurement, nails, parallax, photo, rail, readability, red, reflection, rip, ripping, rule, stick, suit, surface, table, tape
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 3,425
    mikm
    24th December 2008, 09:51 PM Go to last post

  27. Keeping the dust down with an electric planer

    Started by rsser, 17th November 2008 03:47 PM
    bag, bench, blades, dust, electric, fills, fire, fits, fix, hard, hose, keeping, kicked, means, minor, minute, mods, narrower, nicely, perfect, planer, session, shavings, shelf, shop, sits, stock, tapering, tubes, vac
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,768
    David L
    27th November 2008, 06:19 PM Go to last post

  28. "El Cheapo" Roller Stands Fix

    Started by Bob38S, 17th September 2008 11:28 AM
    $400+, 3mm, aluminium, beefed, bob, bring, cheapo, cladding, el cheapo, figure, firmish, fix, flat, fold, holds, horizontal, irrigation, pipe, plate, real, roller, rollers, rust, solved, stands, stretch, table, tread, wheeling, wire
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 3,113
    bpj1968
    19th September 2008, 09:54 AM Go to last post

  29. Resizing pics for email and forums

    Started by groverwa, 4th May 2008 01:20 PM
    2.26m, 26k, attached, background, compression, display, double, email, forums, life, link, mike, nifty, pass, pic, pics, quick, require, resize, resizing, rest, run, select, send, shrink, size, started, thread, time, transmission
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,233
    Jerryj
    18th September 2008, 01:38 AM Go to last post

  30. Fine woodworking video chair making

    Started by jow104, 7th September 2008 07:41 PM
    1/2, apologises, attached, chair, email, fine, hours, link, making, morning, video, woodworking
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 4,424
    yjnb
    17th September 2008, 08:19 PM Go to last post

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