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Most machinery (panel saws etc) have a max and minimum blade size meaning you can safely run any blade size withinn the max-minimum...

It is most likly the wood drying out on the ends faster than the rest. I had it happen once and it was simply shrinkage happening too...

If you use the correct nails, there is no need to use braces. In this case and the ones made by you know who on the other place the...

According to Mike G in the other place, braces were not commonly used on internal doors, just ledges. Also supported by my neighbour...

I do remember the conversation but not all the details. I sometimes cycle to Loddon and back during the summer and Norwich is the place...

The frame jamb look like it has its fair share of worm as well. Could the frame be in twist as well, to check, if you've some string...

Yes, there are some wormholes in the frame and threshold. I used pine boards that have been sitting in the attic here for decades.

I have to agree with Meccattoll i am still working 84 this year where he calls them ledges we called them battens and the door was...

Your work looks very tidy. I see you have a Sedgwick tenoner and looks like a scribe head too. I wish I had a workshop the size of...

The door you have made looks very nice but clenching with the grain allows the nails to sink in to the wood slightly. I would tend to...

After spending 48 years as a Carpenter & Joiner I have never seen the ledges split due to clenching nails with the grain, that's not to...

Well I must say your door does look very nice. When clenching nails try to clench with the grain and punch them into the grain so they...

Hi all I have been asked to look at some sliding sashes in Peterborough but think it might turn out too far from my area and be too much...

Sound like you should have been the person to fit the kitchen you mention, would have been better fit and a better job done.

I found the router cutter he used and it was cheap and nasty and of course blunt , he also used a home made radius jig rather than a...