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    Garden Table

    This is probably going to fly a bit like a lead balloon, but I'm trying to decide if you could have found more complicated technical solutions than the ones you've selected for making a table top. For me, it would have been stopped M&T's everywhere thus limiting as much as possible the amount of...
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    Fuming test

    I should have said in my first post that you can buy tannin from, for example, wine making suppliers to apply to the surface of wood species that don't react to ammonia. Applying tannin to ash would cause it to react to ammonia which Phil was experimenting with, but you really need strong...
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    Fuming test

    When I lived in the US in Texas I shared a workshop with another furniture maker. He needed to fume some fairly large American white oak pieces. Rather than go to the trouble of building a tent in the workshop in which to put the furniture whilst it fumed he went down the road and hired a UHaul...
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    Best value"Stanley" knife blades

    Who says I listen to even one word of my own advice. B&Q? Ha! Too classy for me. Slainte.
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    Cut & Dried - latest print run

    Sorry, not that clever. But maybe I could arrange two out of four of those characteristics. It's a bit like the old saw of being able to provide for a demanding customer only any two out of the options of best, cheapest, quickest ha, ha. Slainte.
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    Cut & Dried - latest print run

    Many thanks for the compliment. Classic Hand Tools or Woodsmith in Tyne and Wear are the people here in the UK that carry it if you're looking. Slainte.
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    Cut & Dried - latest print run

    Many thanks for the kind words, HdV. To clarify though, this third print run isn't actually what the publisher defines as a new edition. I can't recall how much reworking of the book Lost Art Press would need before they'd say they're releasing a new edition, but I seem to recall it's quite...
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    Cut & Dried - latest print run

    Just a bit of a self-satisfied smugness really because I've just received my author's copy of the third print run of my book. It's been reworked somewhat adding about 1300 words to section 6.6 which was all about calculating wood moisture content. The reason for the reworking was to bring into...
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    Single word complement to “scant”

    Bawhair, the width of a pube, can be either over or under, e.g., a bawhair shy, or a bawhair over. Slainte.
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    Varifocal glasses

    I had to move to varifocals some eight, maybe ten years ago to compensate for gently fading distance vision as well as short vision. I noticed the distance thing as being a bit of a problem when I realised I could no longer see the speedometer numbers clearly when driving. I've always asked for...
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    Splits in oak

    I'm arriving late to this thread, a result of not being the most attentive or frequent user nor the most prolific poster here. Still my advice largely reflects much of what has already been said. You should sticker the boards up (stickers carefully aligned vertically) with the stack set some 10...
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    Now for the Chairs

    Yes, some of those chair styles from around the mid-1500s to the late 1600s could be quite chunky. As you say you shouldn't have much to worry about regarding joinery strength. Slainte.
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    Now for the Chairs

    Okay, got what you're aiming for. Slainte.
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    Now for the Chairs

    I think you could increase the length of the mortice to nearly the width of the rail without weakening the leg too much. The outer mortice cheek is, after all, angling away from the outer face of the leg so at that point the wood is gaining strength. If your design includes a rebate in the rail...
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    Now for the Chairs

    That's already covered by the rule of thirds guidance for setting out M&T proportions used in corner joints, e.g., where the top rail meets a door stile. The rule of thirds suggests that only approximately two thirds of a tenoned member's width should be taken up by the tenon. For example the...
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    Now for the Chairs

    More normally known, I believe, as a sloped or sloping haunch. Haunches, sloped or square have only three purposes. 1. Filling a groove in, for example, a panelled architectural door. 2. Maintaining the alignment on the outside face of M&Td parts where those outside faces are flush, e.g., to...
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    Separating lids from boxes - how do you do yours?

    It could in theory put you into a bit of a spin, I suppose, but I keep letting go of the plane and changing my grip. I'm very boring that way. Slainte.
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    Separating lids from boxes - how do you do yours?

    The technique I use for separating the lid from the box base is saw off the lid with a handsaw to a gauge line followed by a planing technique known as spanning. Basically, this means treating the sawn edges of both the lid and the base as one continuous length. So, using a long plane such as a...
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    Best value"Stanley" knife blades

    I might last have purchased a pack of Stanley knife blades sometime in the 1990s, or maybe 2000s. They're so easy to sharpen on the edge of a stone, so why keep buying the bloody things? Top to bottom: marking knife for general marking usually against a set square or rule, bird's beak knife for...
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    Calling Scottish Cooks - traditional haggis?

    You might consider ordering your haggis directly from that well known Edinburgh crew, MACSWEENS. Slainte.
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