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Thanks Eddy for your advice. The problem with the birch ply would be how pale it was - As the tambours go round the corners, you see the gaps opening up slightly and I want it to look dark, not light, in the inside. I was going to go to Powells in Oxford on Monday to have a looksee at all their...

'Morning all Its been a long long time since I did a work in progress on UKW but I have wanted for a long time to make a tambour cabinet / sideboard for our home... I wrote to Richard Jones of this parish who made the Torpedore cabinet which I admired for a very long time and kept returning to...

Kneehole writing desk in Brazilian mahogany with crotch mahogany veneered drawer fronts, drawers in olive ash, recycled brass handles and an inlaid blue leather skiver top

I have recently planed down to 1.5mm thickness on my helical Axminster planer thicknesser. As long as the grain is straight and you go very slowly incrementally it works very well

sorry and a Writing lapdesk

I have always used wallpaper paste - works a treat There are at least 2 WIP projects of mine on here if you can be bothered - a Victorian drum tableand a Writing desk- both with leather tops and both with wallpaper paste. Both in use every day and both still stuck down years later Cheers Gasman

I can't find a manual - and have asked Axminster but they have got nothing. Do you have any idea of the weight? And do you think it would come into pieces relatively easily? THanks Mark

sorry just seen how stupid I look - I can see the model number now. I will get back to you. BW Mark

I'm quite interested - do you have the model number? I don't have a van so would like to see the exact weight as to whether it would come apart and go in the back of the car?? Thanks Mark

My trend table is the Trend WRT Seems bigger than my old Festool to me - and certainly feels more solid and dependable. I never liked the splayed legs on the Festool CMS - it was easily 'jolted'

I had one with the router module for years and it was OK.... very very occasionally I used the inverted jigsaw module. Last year I sold it all and instead went for a Trend router table with the T11 router. The difference is incredible - so much more stability with the trend system. I sold it on...

Use grain filler before your final finish goes on - I use the Rustin one which is only a fiver or so - the mahogany one makes a huge difference I find to the finish one can get on dark woods I would go with MDF though - and then veneer both sides Cheers Mark

"You need to bisect the cut to get the correct angle' Surely bisect the angle to get the correct cut?

But he does say on his blog he raced bicycles for 35 years - that makes me a little suspicious about the 84 hours a week work - racing bikes takes time to maintain the bike, train, race, recover etc etc

Wow nice website wpatrickedwards.com/. He is almost getting the hang of this marquetry business!

Hi Steve I just reread this whole thread.... seems like a lot of people think these joints are under too much pressure. I am imagining that top must weigh a bit - 20kg?? the other bits will be weighty too. Then you only have to have someone leaning on one side and there is a whole lot of torque...

Beautiful figuring on that timber and you've done a fabulous job of matching up the pippiness Is there anyone else who is concerned about the huge stress on the two joints on either end between the vertical pieces and the splayed legs? I cannot see how that joint won't be under huge stress all...

Its lovely work. And great videos - but I am confused. The way you are putting the videos up one at a time implies the project is ongoing - but I watched all the videos on YouTube end-to-end last week??

Thanks for your reply - in fact the company which supplied the flooring and glue have said the glue will act as a DPM as well - similar kind of concept I imagine

Morning everyone I have 30m2 of herringbone wooden floor to lay. It is engineered oak 120 x 600mm prefinished. Its going onto a concrete substrate which has had the old parquet flooring removed and been self-levelled. I'm pretty sure there is no DPM in the floor (Victorian house) but there were...