• 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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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Yes, that's another symptom, perhaps challenge being a better word, of very dry wood I could have mentioned, it's hardness which frequently makes it quite unpleasant to use. In oak, a hard hardwood anyway, that makes it doubly unpleasant. I know that carvers much prefer either air dried oak, or...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    5% MC! That is very interesting. I've never heard of any timber processor deliberately drying timber to such a low MC. There are two main reasons for not doing so that I can think of: the first being cost, and the second being that wood so dry sometimes doesn't machine well, e.g., machining can...
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    Is a balancing veneer always required

    Som Hmm? I'm not entirely sure about that, though. Running the veneer horizontally to match a solid wood drawer front's grain direction I'd say was historically only somewhat more common than running it vertically. Whether horizontally or vertically orientated the drawer front would have been...
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    Is a balancing veneer always required

    Sorry AI, or AI if you prefer. Maybe we could rename AI (AI) as AyeEye so as to avoid inadvertantly being mean to you? Slainte.
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    Is a balancing veneer always required

    AI in my experience ain't wonderful as a source of woodworking knowledge: I've tested it from time to time and it quite often talks gibberish in this field and I suspect that's because it tends to pick up the verbal diarrhoea of limited knowledge or wrong knowledged woodworkers, both amateur and...
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    Cut & Dried - latest print run

    None at all I'm afraid, information, that is. Wood finishes in general have little or no effect on wood's dimension, even water borne finishes, and their only likely role on dimensional stability is almost certainly restricted to how effective any finish is at preventing the ingress and egress...
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    Distressing oak furniture

    Oh well, I take your point. I didn't find it hard when I had to undertake distressing work. My boss wanted me to do it decades ago now. He paid me so I just whacked away, ha, ha. Slainte.
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    Distressing oak furniture

    It's not hard. Use a spokeshave to round over edges a bit to simulate wear, e.g., chair armrests, and what about shoe damage to chair or table stretchers? Bash the bottom of legs of tables, for example, with the edge of chisels or similar and the ball of ball pein hammers, and maybe pin hammers...
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    Wood fungi

    Many thanks, Mike for the flattering commendation of me and by implication to my book Cut & Dried. Thanks also toAJB T for providing the link to where the book can be bought. I'm always pleased when someone other than me promotes my book because that's something I don't do myself because I...
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    Wood fungi

    I can't tell you what the fungal species is but if, as you say, the sapwood and the heartwood are dry then the infestation is likely to be confined to the bark which must be wetter. You've got rid of the bark (and the sapwood) so the problem should be resolved, and stays that way as long as the...
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    Does anyone know what tree do these come from ?

    Most of the oak galls I come across tend to be round and smooth as below which is a gall (aka oak apple) on a pedunculate oak, Quercus robur or English oak. But I also see on my walks and bike rides quite a lot of rough knobbly deformities as shown by Phil and Roger. I think Phil might be...
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    Liberon spirit sanding sealer

    Meths and cellulose thinner are compatible in my experience, i.e., adding one to the other doesn't cause or create a solvent that's incompatible with whatever finish product either of these solvents were part of. For example, I commonly added cellulose thinner to meths solvent formulated spirit...
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    Wood Identification

    African mahogany (Khaya ivorensis) and American mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) are both in the same Meliaceae family which does mean they are related and are both, I suppose, legitimately described as mahogany using the standard 'mahogany' nomenclature. Sapele (Entandrophragma cylindricum) too...
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    Steam bending

    To add to your comment, the purpose of the bending strap with the stops at both ends set on the convex face of the curve trapping the length of wood is to keep all the fibres across the width of the bend in line. Without the strap as the wood bends the fibres want to go out of alignment in the...
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    Garden room restoration

    The corners are structural, something like as in the image below. As to a fix I don't have any great ideas. If it's rotting perhaps the only vain (probably failed) attempt at rescue would be to slosh fungicide all over the place. Or maybe the corner could be boxed out externally somehow to...
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    Slats in window shutters.

    When I replied yesterday I inexplicably forgot to mention that European oak or an American white oak would be another option, all of which fall into the durable categoryy, i.e., 15 -25 years in ground contact. What's a bit weird about not mentioning oak is that it was pretty much the first thing...
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    Slats in window shutters.

    Assuming these shutters are to be painted, any of the following in no particular order: Accoya Sapele Iroko Utile All of the above are either classed as durable or moderately durable. Redwood (Scots pine) has also traditionally been used for external joinery, but it isn't classed as durable...
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    Slats in window shutters.

    The problem with meranti's durability is that it depends on the species. There are approximately forty five species of the genus Shorea that go into what's sold as various merantis, lauans, and serayas including, for example, dark red meranti, light red meranti, white meranti, red seraya, red...
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    Garden Table

    Add a screw up through the dovetail, maybe angled towards the table's perimeter to maximise screw length and downward force resistance, preferably stainless steel. Slainte.
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    Garden Table

    To be honest, Dr All, I didn't clock your project until perhaps three or four weeks back. It seems this thread has been around for about a year and I didn't see or get involved in your design development discussions. Having only really only started noticing what you were doing recently was when...
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