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The bottom of Top-hung doors can swing back and forth if handled clumsily so if the door doesn’t fully leave the pocket it will seem a bit more sturdy wouldn’t it? Especially as I won’t be using a bottom track

Thanks, but what is a good approach to framing out the stud work- the way I have framed out studwork in the past is a lattice of 2x2 and plasterboards over the top, but that won’t work for the pocket?

I want to partition a bathroom. I need to use a pocket door as there is very limited space. I have hung plenty of doors and constructed stud partitions but never built a wall to house a pocket door. The wall will only be about 6inches deep. I have no idea how to proceed. It will be built...

Axe work is good fun, switch to a plane and/or draw knife when you get to 40mm

40 is bigger than I would go, I’d be nearer 35

If you are making a walking stick, just get on with it, the stick will be thin enough not to check, the handle can be kept wet, or oiled, or wrapped in cling film to slow down the drying. When not working, cover the whole thing in any of the above or paint it all over in pva. You can do like a...

A 60 degree, 10mm v-tool preferably a sow-back aka long-bend

Apologies, 33.5 cm circumference, so 10cm diameter- 4”? Bark on yew tends to be pretty ok to remove after two years of seasoning. Leave it on. It is going to split for about 8” from each end, regardless of how well you seal the ends though. Hopefully the log has plenty of length

No, that will lead to surface shakes as the dry upper layer can’t contract over the wet inner core. The point of seasoning is to lose moisture as slowly as possible so the log contracts the same amount all over, surface contracting as close as possible to the same speed as the centre...

To me, terms are important and I need to look at myself in the mirror. If I sell work as made by hand it IS hand made without power tools, if I use a rotary power tool, it is carved, chainsaw carvings are sold as such, but all 3 forms are created by the manipulation of a tool with my hands. I...

I’m a traditional wood carver. When I took my kids to a museum exhibition of a Roman carpenter’s workshop they pointed to all the tools they recognised as having direct equivalents in mine. I don’t use guides, even for sharpening, don’t use power tools anymore. Did have a bandsaw and linisher...

I know about glue from casein (cheese), rabbit/hide glue (protein) and gelatin (collagen) glue but I stumbled over a passing mention of horn glue on line. Horn is keratin. Is there a traditional glue made from animal horn? If so, anyone made/used it?

Celotape can work wonders, not the cheap stuff but the proper tape is strong and stretchy and sticky, it makes a great impromptu clamp, it can even pull into a kind of string to bind parts together while glue sets

My better half has Never had trouble finding homes for my work (weddings/birthdays/Christmases) but I have found you can’t buy tools with Brownie points.

Wish I was closer

For argument’s sake let’s say postable, and, cover costs and move on

I work full time. I am a whittler, and I am NOT looking to make my hobby my career. Fact is I only make one or two bits and bobs in a (good) month. If I want to sell these one or two bits and bobs, what is a good way forward?

Yeah, I really need to stay patient and just slowly keep working it back, but, that kind of patience I really struggle with

Well it's been a bit more than a month, but I have been working steadily away on the next iteration. I'm using a much better piece of yew this time although the sapwood was very thick and I started off by reducing this thickness by a couple of mm. This means that the heartwood runs out to each...

Why are surgical instruments callled instruments not tools - my carpentry "kit" is full of tools, including drills, saws, and knives, I sometimes use needles and thread,, a surgical set of instruments includes drills, saws and knives, needles and threads.....