• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    Solar Kiln, promising progress.

    The major keys for drying wood are temperature, relative humidity (RH), and air movement. Because, Andy, your project is drying logs to burn you're not particulalrly concerned about drying faults such as splits, shakes, warp, case-hardening, etc. So, for you the main keys to quick'ish drying are...
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    What stripper?

    As Trevanion suggested the best stuff is almost certainly the dichloromethane as still available in Paramose. I can assure anyone that's reading it will soften acid catalysed lacquer as I've used it myself on this a few times, as well as other finishes such as oil based varnishm pre-cat, etc...
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    Lie Nielsen No. 60 1/2 Block Plane

    I don't fully understand how some secondhand items sell for a premium over a new item. For example, secondhand versions of my drivellings in my book on timber technology I've seen offered for sale at a higher price at, for example, here than they can buy the darned thing new directly from the...
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    Now for the Chairs

    I think you're right and it was just the way the chair and its cabriole leg was photographed. It does appear likely that there is a column of wood running all through if I'm offsetting the edge of the straight edge to the right correctly in your photo. I don't recall who or when I was taught...
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    Now for the Chairs

    Is it just the angle at which the photo was taken, or are those cabriole legs bandy looking? Bandiness in cabriole legs is usually the result of not leaving at least a slender column of wood (e.g. at least 4 - 5 mm round or square) running through the length of the leg, as illustrated in the...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    The table looks fine, and I'd say a very good job. A bit of green aniline dye added to the Van Dyke brown would have knocked the red back a bit: that doesn't seem obviously necessary to me but I'm, of course, only looking at a photo. Slainte.
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Great. 8% is about what I'd expect in late autumn/winter for wood in most houses here in the UK, assuming there's reasonable insulation and similarly reasonable climate control. Generally internal furniture gains moisture as summer approaches and up to early autumn before starting to dry again...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    The table's looking good, and well done I say for being able to achieve what was required in the time frame. On a side note though, did you ever resolve the moisture content thing that was batted about at one point? Slainte.
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    How much to make these ?

    I wouldn't object. I do however have the original, also in PDF format, which uses both imperial and metric units, but one possible drawback, I suppose, is that it runs to 35 A4 pages. That's mainly because the images are larger as is the text which is 1-1/2 line spaced, also large before and...
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    How much to make these ?

    I too have a pricing system which I used to give to my BA (Hons) students when I taught Furniture Making and Design. It was also picked up and published by an American magazine a number of years back. The magazine version is more compact than my original and largely restricts itself to imperial...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    True, my misspeaking, so a wedge to loosen a wedge. You could screw the 'wedge loosener' to the table top's underside, I suppose. Slainte.
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    I must admit I hadn't appreciated that the space available was quite so limited. I suspect you'd get more wedge removals than you expect. I say that because in my experience of a fair number of tusk tenons on tables and workbenches that that shaping is generally pretty tough. It also helps that...
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    ukworkshop

    Which is how I've set myself up. I never see ads and I'm not, and never have been, a paid up member. I did get a recent message from Dovetail, who must be an administrator there offering some sort of enhanced pay for use deal that gets rid of ads. I, as usual, ignored it. Slainte.
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    The wedge to remove a wedge idea is built-in redundancy. All that's needed to remove the wedge that locks the tusk tenon is to tap up or hammer up the bottom small end of the locking wedge. Others would say that the shaped upper part of the wedge is designed specifically to assist its removal...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    I didn't mean to cause so much disruption to Mike's table build thread, so this really should be be my last input in this thread so that I don't become a complete pest. But, if you really want to find out more about the the biofuel sector go to the following links ... and that's just to begin...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Yes, the weight of the oven dry wood is the base line against which the moisture content is calculated. It's calculating wood MC on the 'dry basis' aka db. What I find rather incongruous is the the biofuel sector uses the wet weight of the wood as the base line known as the 'wet basis' or wb. I...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Determing wood MC using a microwave oven Slainte.
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    That's the kind of chart I was referring to, only I'd omitted to mention (because I'd forgotten) some of the factors such as temperature. One of my moisture meters had a similar chart, but I've lost it, and that's probably because the moisture meter it came with broke and I binned it, most...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Yellow staining in oak seems to have become more prevalent in recent years. Gard et al postulated that it is caused by "metabolization of tannic acid by the fungus Paecilomyces variotii." Koch and Skarvelis suggest “The fungus colonises the vessels of the wood reacting with the hydrolysable...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    All this is very interesting to me, that you get such low readings with your moisture meter, albeit a board or two from some of your older stock tested at above 10% MC. As Cabinetman mentioned some moisture meters come with a chart for making allowances for the structure of different wood...
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