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    What type of joints should I use for this fish tank stand?

    He will also need to check that his saw blade is cutting square in order to get things plumb as I mentioned above. A block plane should easily cure deviations. I like your idea of getting ply cut as that really would remove any need to fret about accuracy.
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    What type of joints should I use for this fish tank stand?

    From what I've read of aquarium disasters i.e. the unexpected carpet-soaking burst in the small hours, I think that one of the most vital tools would be a spirit level. An unequal distribution of the weight can lead to great mechanical stress on the aquarium. A level longer than the length of...
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    Alternative to wood for eg plough plane fences?

    That sounds like a very good idea indeed!
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    Alternative to wood for eg plough plane fences?

    Good point.
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    Alternative to wood for eg plough plane fences?

    Andy, I agree and I've never had difficulties with wood but it did get me thinking that I'm surprised that nobody has thought of developing something with bombproof flatness. But as I said in my OP, I don't think there's an actual, practical need for something other than wood. Just Friday night...
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    Alternative to wood for eg plough plane fences?

    Pete, I had a perfectly flat piece of American poplar as a fence on my plough plane. For some reason I took it off, left it for a day and then found that it had developed the slightest curve from one end to the other. I accept that if it's flat at the time of screwing on, it should stay that...
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    Alternative to wood for eg plough plane fences?

    As we all know it is usual to use a bit of stable, flat wood when making e.g. a plough plane fence and of course it works. However, what are the chances of the fence moving a bit and thus introducing a small bit of inaccuracy? It occurred to me that it is odd that nobody seems to think of using...
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    Comfortable dining chair considerations

    Steve, "brandy" is related to the German verb "brennen" (the past being brannt). Also think of branding e.g. horses. German for brandy is "Brandwein", literally burned wine i.e. distilled wine. Cognac and Armagnac are simply regionally specific varieties of brandy. Woodbloke, Stilton is of...
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    Comfortable dining chair considerations

    I just googled with my terrible schoolboy French (only O level I failed - admittedly on purpose): acheter LBV port en france and immediately got some links.
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    Comfortable dining chair considerations

    You can certainly get it in some of the better German supermarkets and better wine merchants. That said, there needs to be a bit of missionary work done in Germany. I usually give my students port and cheese on the last day of lessons. They mostly like it.
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    Comfortable dining chair considerations

    Rose is funny stuff. IME a bottle where you think, "This is good wine" is the exception rather than the rule. The last time I enjoyed a rose was at a French bistro in Berlin this summer. Oddly enough, it came from a vineyard owned by Brad Pitt and Angeline Jolie. It really was quite good. Mind...
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    Archery

    I was just watching a bit of archery on the telly: targets at 50 m and nobody scoring below an eight, which I think at that distance is quite impressive. Then I noticed the "bows". I put that in inverted commas because they are barely bow shaped. There are rods sticking out all over the place...
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    Slats in window shutters.

    Which wood would you recommend, Richard?
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    Titanium alloy chisels.

    🤣
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    Titanium alloy chisels.

    Mangled or not, they are gorgeous. I could imagine, just maybe, giving myself something like that as a retirement present, come the day. That said, the psychological hurdle for getting something for a job which my Veritas chisels do perfectly well might be insurmountable.
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    Slats in window shutters.

    Thanks for the info about meranti. I read somewhere that it is widely used in the making of windows and therefore just assumed that it must be weatherproof! You learn something every day!
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    Your favourite listenings......

    Although I'm not the world's greatest fan of choral music, I recently stumbled across a piece called Spen in Alium composed by Thomas Tallis. I'll not post a specific link as there seem to be quite a few options. Definitely one of those pieces to be absorbed in once you've cleared your mind.
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    Titanium alloy chisels.

    I like Dictum because while they offer high quality tools which do what they say on the tin, they also cater to people who drive to their workshops in their Ferraris. In the former category, they're offering some silicon mats designed for e.g. laying down under glue ups to catch any drops...
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    Titanium alloy chisels.

    I think that for anyone with a slack grand hanging around in their bank account, the Tasais win it on purely aesthetic grounds because they really are objects of beauty. Although as Andy points out, their prospective owners obviously run the risk of wrist strain.
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    Slats in window shutters.

    That's what I was getting at. I'm not posh enough to know that they are called "louvred" though.😆 The fact that they are all flat in the frames is probably an explanation for why they have weathered so badly. Angled it is, then.
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