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No simple answer to this question, as there’s so many factors to consider. Unless of course, your irresistibly intrigued to see if you can actually resurface your brakes in the home shop! That’s one of the main reason I went ahead and had a go… You can click the pic above to see the video walk-through […]

So, Flowering Elbow attended the first Mend*rs symposium 29th June-2nd July. Organised by three inspired menders and scholars: Jonnet Middleton, Guiseppe Salva and Beck Collins with the aim of: ‘bring[ing] together an emergent community of research around issues of repair. By research we include practice-based research, arts-based research, activist research as well as traditional academic inquiry. We want to […]

Long have I been jealous of Bongo’s combination mitre saw and table saw, and his ability to quickly and easily to produce accurate cuts of any angle. This was never a problem when I lived down the road but since moving away to the country I have had to rely on either jigsaw or circular […]

The Festool OF1400 is the Rolls-Royce of hand held power routers let’s look at the magical insides. This router is just about powerful enough to mount upside-down in a router table, and small enough to manoeuvre by hand (with the help of various fences and guide rails).   I have gotten my hands on one […]