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hands on a fantastic low-angle jack plane, worth over £250! Ideal for shooting mitres, working end-grain and initial smoothing, this must-have hand tool
also features a combined feed and lateral adjustment knob for fast, accurate changes to depth of cut. To be in with a chance of winning this fantastic piece
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Good luck! To find out more about Veritas tools, see http://www.brimarc.comhttp://www.getwoodworking.com August 2019 The Woodworker & Good Woodworking 71
THE LATE DON GILL
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Hello Tegan,
My friend, Don Gill, passed away this morning. He had several articles
published in The Woodworker. He was a very gifted craftsman, who made
woodwind instruments. One article I still have is about how he made a small
organ. He also made a model replica of a seed drill, which was on display
at Reading Museum of English Rural Life, but has now been relegated to
the reserve collection, like a lot of other interesting artefacts. He was also
a long serving volunteer with Tools for Self Reliance.
I thought some readers might like to know this.
With regards, Philip Davies
Hi Philip, thanks for your email. I will include this in our letters section so people
will be able to find out. It sounds like Don made many great contributions to the
magazine over the years, as well as volunteering for such a worthy cause as Tools
for Self Reliance. I’m sure he will be sorely missed by family, friends as well as
those in the wider woodworking community.
Best wishes, Tegan
Tip 1– I needed to create some awkward shapes in aluminium and didn’t
fancy doing them by hand, so elected to use my angle grinder. I could have
held the items in a vice and used the angle grinder freehand, but didn’t
feel this was the safest way, so I set out to make something to hold it
in and ended up with a timber collar, which holds it securely in the vice
at any angle (photo 1), so I can now offer the aluminium to a secure blade.
In order to achieve this I had to form the correct diameter hole to fit
the angle grinder (photo 3), and wasn’t sure how to accomplish this.
Fortunately, I remembered I had a small circle jig, which, in the past, had
been described in a woodworking magazine and I’d also found details
in Mastering the Router. To make one I first had to construct the guide bush
guide, then the circle cutting jig, both of which are shown in photo 2 sitting
on my well-used version of the saw bench described in the April 2018
issue. It all worked out well.Tip 2 – Years ago, I made a router table and cupboard, but never got
round to fitting an efficient device to raise and lower the router in it, so I
decided to sort it out and obtained an unused car screw jack from my local
car breaker. In order to make it fit under the router, I had to cut out a well
and reinforce the bottom. The jack sits in the well and can be easily used
to set the router bit to the correct height. This can then be set using its own
lever. It didn’t take long and the jack only cost £5 (their minimum charge!).
All I have to do is fit a comfortable handle to turn the jack, but this isn’t a
priority (photos 4-6).
Regards, Alan Hughes1 Angle grinder held in the jig
and vice, ready for use2 Circle cutting jig and guide bush
guide on workbench3 The jig with the appropriate size
hole and restraining nut and bolt4 Well in router table to hold the jack5 The jack set in the well 6 Router in the table with the jack
in position