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I'll only use drawer slides and sheet goods construction once or twice a year, and then it's normally for utilitarian pieces like this router table bench, But every time I do this sort of work I'm reminded that it's often more of an exercise in precision than the solid timber furniture making...

Prof Chris raises an interesting point. I do think different thicknesses of panel each have their own problems when it comes to edge jointing, and the 3 or 4mm thick panels that Prof Chris is using are, for my money, the most difficult of all. I often edge joint and glue 1.0-2.0mm "panels"...

I'd call this edge jointing rather than laminating. In fact that's quite an important point, because where most people go wrong with thin panels is they think of it as a glue-up challenge, but it's really not, in reality it's an edge jointing challenge. If your edge jointing is flawless then...

Superb! If only more people could get the tuition that would allow them to climb the learning curve at a similarly rapid speed.

My next door neighbour had hedgehogs move into their compost heap, within a few days there was no more slug problems, either in their garden or in the three or four gardens around. Brilliant little critters!

Yes, that's the stuff. I'm happy to send you a sample first for you to try. Personally I'd be tempted to take Droog up on his very generous offer, a template you can cramp down will always be the least risky option.

The ex VAT price of rough sawn Oak should be around £60 per cubic foot, obviously cheaper if you buy it by the boatload but for most people this is roughly what you'll pay for decent quality Oak. I'll happily pay £80 a cube for genuinely first grade, furniture quality boards. If you're a...

Here's a another option to consider, a combination of double sided tape and cramps. I copy route the legs of this Shaker table, Here's the template, This template gets used on a router table or a spindle moulder. Therefore I can only use toggle cramps and stops at the ends, which means the...

Same thing Chris, Sweet Chestnut and Oak are first cousins! They're often planted together, processed together, and as they offer the user much of the same characteristics they're often sold together. In Arts & Crafts furniture it's traditional, if you're using Oak for a piece of furniture, to...

PM me with your address and I'll send you some Tesa double sided tape to try, all I know is it's their red DST! But going back to Andy's point, and picking up on the previous theme that there's always another option, even if the cramps are fouling the router it may still be possible to cramp...

Chip Shop raises an interesting point that's very relevant to current Oak quality in the UK. For the past few years I've heard a growing chorus of complaints from UK furniture makers regarding the quality of their Oak. It seems that as price competition intensifies many people in the supply...

I'll say it again, unless you can apply some cramp pressure to the tape then this becomes a much riskier operation. The OP needs to think about that first before deciding if he's going to add to the risk with some DIY tape! Don't forget, there's always alternative options. Does the template...

Are you saying you only have access to one side now, or will only have access after the component is made and assembled? Doubled sided tape isn't usually a problem, but that's because you can generally apply some pressure with an F-Cramp to increase the bond. However, if you only have access to...

Stopped groove every time, filling a through groove is extra work and it just looks amateurish. I'll make stopped grooves on both a router table and a spindle moulder, depends really on the scale of the component. I tend to prefer the router table. The rounded end isn't usually a problem...

Interesting question. Oak is just about the only hardwood in the UK that's graded, but what complicates matters is that some timber yards also have their own grading system, and there's also a French grading system that's often used for Oak sold in the UK! Have a look here for more...

This is all getting a bit weird Jon. I've just logged on to the Felder Owner Group forum, it's still up and running and it's still managed by Yahoo. However there seems to be a bit of a brouhaha going on, with one faction wanting to break away from the Yahoo structure (makes sense to me, it's...

Sometimes, yes. Depends on how much I'm getting paid!

Excellent question! With a mitre that's not at 45 degrees. You can't get this at most modern framers because they're geared up with a Morso or something similar and so are locked into 45 degree cuts. But if you look at even older framers tools and devices, like the cast iron"shute" that...

Fair enough, I'd agree with that.