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    Circular table apron

    If you decide you really want a curved rail the easiest would probably be to laminate oak constructional veneers available at the Mundy link at either 1.2 or 2.4 mm thickness. It was constructional veneers that were used in the cherry table below, which saved a lot of waste and time faffing...
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    Lime

    Fair enough, but I did just wonder about your intentions, so that's why I posted. Believe it or not, some forty plus years ago, I was tasked with using quite long and wide boards of lime to make up 18 - 20 mm thick panels. It's so long ago that I can't be certain what they were for, but...
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    Lime

    Branch wood boarded up might be a bit questionable. It's all likely to contain a fair amount of reaction wood and therefore unstable meaning it's likely to warp quite a bit during drying. Also, being an angiosperm the reaction wood will tend to suffer from tension which tends to be fuzzy and...
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    Veneering Birch ply

    What you propose is technically sound. It's essentially the same technique that's been used on countless drawer fronts for centuries, i.e., a plain drawer box front gussied up with fancy veneers, cross-banding, stringing and cockbeading. Slainte.
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    Setting a Mortice Gauge?

    I was taught fifty plus years ago, continue to use, and teach learners the following: Set the pins so that the width of the mortice chisel just barely rests between the two points. In other words, when the chisel is resting between the two points, each point sits above the chisel corners by...
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    Have I got Woodworm!

    It's probably more accurate to say you had a bit of common furniture beetle in your wood. The frass indicates the beetles have left, but it's a good idea to mark existing flight holes as AndyT suggested and monitor for new exit holes in the future, which would indicate more recent egg laying by...
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    Last time with Idigbo?

    I think you may be confusing durability with resistance to insect attack. Specifically, durability in timber technology terms, refers to a timber species' ability to resist fungal attack and decay when in contact with the ground, e.g., soil, or where the timber experiences moisture penetration...
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    Ahm Ai bovvered?

    In truth I haven't got a clue what you're talking about regarding K.U., Angie, a sale, and how that relates in some way to your apparent antipathy to UK Workshop. I don't need an explanation, ha, ha. Slainte.
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    Ahm Ai bovvered?

    I've got to admit that I can't fathom what problems people perceive there to be with UK Workshop. I've been knocking about the place since 2004, I think, post sparingly and only when I feel like it, ignore or laugh off any barbs thrown my way (very few), only once had my wrist gently tapped by a...
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    Chisel Sharpening - Subtleties in Flattening Backs

    It's best to do that. I never take part in sharpening threads for reasons already given, i.e., bitter and fractious disagreements. Oh, darn, I just have joined a sharpening thread. You'll have noticed I've said nothing about sharpening which is the key to keeping the peace. But I can throw...
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    Bubinga?

    I see no objection to dimensioning and polish prepping with the method you propose. But, if you happen to be keen to include hand planing and eliminating or at least minimising tearout then a very sharp iron and a really, really close set cap iron will help. Naturally, the plane has to be in...
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    How many days in a fortnight?

    Fortnight is not new to Americans. I introduced the term to them in the early 1990s when I moved there. They didn't understand the term then and still didn't understand it when I moved back to the UK ten years later, ha, ha. Never heard of inclusive or exclusive counting though. I'll have to...
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    Small cabinet doors with mirrors

    I've always fitted mirrors in a rebate with a bead at the back screwed in, which I much prefer to nailing. I've never bothered with including a sealant even for a cabinet in a bathroom. My preference is to colour the rear edge of the rebate that's reflected by the mirror black: the easiest...
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    Mouseman

    I've just remembered I have a very poor low resolution decades old photo of what I described earlier, see below where a helper's arm plus hammer in his right hand are visible: the wedge in the guy's left hand isn't really discernible, unfortunately. Slainte.
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    Mouseman

    No, you've not been doing it wrong. In situations where I've had a helper available when ripping stuff, especially if there's lots of it and it's thick or otherwise predictably likely to be sort of material that might pinch or otherwise misbehave, I've armed said helper with a hammer and a...
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    Kitchen Table - Finished!

    No idea what your finances are like, but if they could stand the cost of a vacuum bag system I suspect your job would be relatively straightforward, similar to below which was laminated 2 mm cherry constructional veneers glued with slow setting epoxy resin. Each glue-up was wide enough to split...
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    Harrogate 2023

    I was helping out at the Classic Hand Tools stand at Harrogate in November this year and I was asked by Jim Linn if I'd like to be video interviewed to talk about my book, Cut & Dried. I was initially reluctant because it was unexpected and I wasn't sure I'd make any sense just talking off the...
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