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  1. Sheffield Tony

    Raw vs boiled linseed oil

    I think food grade linseed oil is usually sold as flax seed oil, some of the green wood workers prefer it for wood in food contact. Raw linseed comes in gallons from equine suppliers; don't know why, I didn't know you had to do oil changes on your horse. But it is a cheap enough source if you...
  2. Sheffield Tony

    MS Outlook replacement

    On all least the version of thunderbird I have, click on the date, sender, subject etc column headers to sort messages on that field. Click again to reverse order.
  3. Sheffield Tony

    Raw vs boiled linseed oil

    Some woods go a really lurid yellow with linseed. I would not expect it to stop splitting. Green woodworkers have tried all sorts of things, including boiling bowls in oil, can't say I've seen many success stories. How you cut the board out of the tree is the key bit.
  4. Sheffield Tony

    The Anarchists Stool?

    I saw a good friend of mine using a travisher he bought from James Mursell at the Windsor Workshop He challenged me to make my own, and as a start drew round the parts on a sheet of paper. That sheet of paper served as my plan, you can see it almost went up during the making of the cutting...
  5. Sheffield Tony

    Workshop intercom

    Do you not have mobile phones ? or is it signal problems ?
  6. Sheffield Tony

    Spindle gouges

    Yes. As a sometime pole lathe turner, as well as gouges and the skew, we use a large flat chisel too. If you use the flat chisel as a skew with no skew angle (skew the whole tool) and think of a gouge as a skew with the corners curved up out of harms way, you will do alright.
  7. Sheffield Tony

    Chair Steps Project

    Looking nice. What I will have to wait for, is how secure this design of chair steps feel in use ... I wonder if the top step with the dovetails would really be used, if not a version without it could be simplification (I've been thinking about having a go at one of these chairs since Andy T...
  8. Sheffield Tony

    Complete finishing balls up

    Things that might help get the gunk off. Something alkaline, like sodium hydroxide aka caustic soda. With appropriate care. It will react with the oil to make soap which washes off. It will also strip paint if a stiff enough solution is used. Natural turpentine to dissolve stickiness, and...
  9. Sheffield Tony

    Back bevel

    You mentioned using a back bevel to avoid corrosion. Thought it could be quite deep hence a big-ish bevel. That's what I was doing with the Acorn #3, some pitting in the back of the iron where the cap iron was sitting and presumably damp wicked in. Eventually just ground away about 1/4".
  10. Sheffield Tony

    Back bevel

    Just a word of caution - some plane irons are laminated. On a cheap Acorn #3 I played with, the hard layer is not terribly thick. Don't get too carried away with your back bevel or you might find it doesn't hold an edge so we'll.
  11. Sheffield Tony

    Apron

    Never hurts to have some room for future expansion 🤭
  12. Sheffield Tony

    How's your Latin?

    From rowing days at Uni, Latin t-shirt mottos were not uncommon: Usque ad mortem bibendemus Perhaps suitable for a symposium room
  13. Sheffield Tony

    Preston style adjustable bit handle WIP

    Looks a bit like a cheese sampling tool, but I'm guessing it isn't because I can't think of a reason for the feature on the handle, and I guess it would be stainless. Hmm.
  14. Sheffield Tony

    Preston style adjustable bit handle WIP

    Well, I enjoyed watching that. Nice result, and a good recovery from the early mistake. It looks a similar size to the handles on those Monument side branch opener tools for lead plumbing, which often appear for sale mistakenly as a woodwork tool. But they all seem to have fitted handles.
  15. Sheffield Tony

    Chair Steps Project

    You can fit an extra side handle to some, so you can hold onto that with your other hand while you turn with your third arm :unsure: Sometimes the cordless drill is tempting.
  16. Sheffield Tony

    Chair Steps Project

    I assumed you were drawing from the Lisbon chair in your photo, which has rails there. It also avoids the little stubs of rail that have caused problems with their dowel joints. I think you do right to M&T them instead.
  17. Sheffield Tony

    Never assume - stupidity strikes again to accident prone A

    Interestingly, the conclusions from this article are quite the reverse of everything I've been told elsewhere - which is that DC is more capable of producing a lock-on situation, whereas AC - especially high frequency AC - is beyond the bandwidth of muscles to respond to. One related anecdote...
  18. Sheffield Tony

    I want to reach out …

    Things that trigger me ... USA "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less", literally the opposite of what is meant ;-) But the most horrific abuse in danger of becoming common usage - "I could of" (or "I should of") where "I could've" / "I could have" it meant. Shudder. And how...
  19. Sheffield Tony

    Never assume - stupidity strikes again to accident prone A

    My school friend and I - must have been 14 at the time - were grafting together 2 broken TVs in order to watch the launch of the first space shuttle. One had a duff tube, the other had a different fault, but they were the same sized tube. Swapped the CRT over, turned it on, not working. Forgot...
  20. Sheffield Tony

    Water management - rain bursts

    I have the problem that no soakaway works when the ground is saturated, no matter how big. In really wet times, mine fills up, backs up, then just adds to the pond that was the top half of the lawn.
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