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Good points about the weight of books because I suspect many people just don't appreciate how heavy books are and it's easy to 'underbuild' through excessive shelf length, lack of thickness (or not incorporating returns to effectively increase thickness) too few intermediate supports, or...

Perhaps your good enough comment is correct but I obviously don't know. As an aside it's my experience that PVA adhesives aren't always a good choice for curved laminations because of their creepiness: there's a tendency for laminations to spring back or straighten following the glue line...

I wonder if that demonstration included the use of a heated press? Do you know? Heat applied in a press or bag to the veneering job or to a bent lamination greatly increases the speed of cure for adhesives. The normal calculation for a press that operates at ~60ºC is to allow for pressure to be...

Yes, although there are formulations such as Titebond Cold Press Veneer Glue that are designed for the purpose. Personally, I've not found any great advantage in using these more expensive veneer formulations over regular PVA, except perhaps somewhat extended open time. Slainte.

Perhaps weirdly, I serve my own tea both ways: sometimes milk first, then tea, and at others tea first, then milk. For me, it's basically down to which is at hand first when I go to pour, the teapot or the milk. Anyway, that wasn't the issue for Doc Brown in his rap - it was the 'crime', as far...

I liked the rap. I can sympathise with his irritation: it would, and has, irritated me too, so you've managed to touch a nerve. Well done. Anyway, who does, apart from a numbskull, actually put milk and teabag into a mug and then pour the boiling water over that lot? Slainte.

Ha, ha. Those long winded and contentious sharpening threads never get me riled up, not nowadays anyway, and they haven't done for perhaps twenty or more years. I do, though, find them highly entertaining and amusing as contestants slug it out with, as ever, no winner. So, no offence for me...

You're not inadvertently suggesting meranti, (genus Shorea) is a member of the mahogany (genus Swietenia), are you? I rarely get involved with trying to identify a wood species via photographs on a forum because it's a bit of a mug's game, but GizmoDuck's photographs are quite good and I'd say...

Just keep marking them as spam, and maybe select block sender. There was a time when I would get 20 or 30 spam emails sometimes more than once a day, all sent at the same time, which also all arrived in my BT inbox en masse within a sixty or so seconds period. They were obviously spam because...

I just find it so difficult to be offended or to get offended. The most I seem to manage when people point out or discuss 'offensive' stuff is a barely perceptible shrug of the shoulders and to think, Big Deal. You all need to try harder to get me all lathered up about something... anything...

Do you mean you've acquired a disc of sycamore that's all end grain, a short bit cut off the end of a longer log? If that's the case, your first challenge will be preventing radial splits emanating from the pith to the circumference as the wood dries, along with distortion. Potential solutions...

A typical recommendation is to make successive plunges (using a plunge router) at roughly half the router cutter's diameter. So, for example, plunge in ~6 mm increments for a 12 mm diameter cutter. Therefore a 25 mm deep groove would be achieved with 4 X successive ~6 mm deep plunges. In truth...

I'm late to this thread, but as others have said the furniture, joinery and carpentry world can be a tough male dominated one for females. Of those three it's my experience that the most accommodating one is in furniture, primarily in the high end one-off custom furniture line. I've taught...

Never mind the Wikipedia definitions of trench, groove, housing, dado, etc and the differences in terminology between American and elsewhere in the world. My memories of working with American woodworkers is that they all generally describe every form of slot, groove, trench, housing, etc in a...

Continuing the theme of measuring atmospheric relative humidity, and adding gaining some insight into cross grain movement of wood as relative humidity changes and its effect on wood is the device I made below. It was made as a learning tool for students during the timber technology subject I...

Scientifically or perhaps technically called a Rittenhouse Hygrometer, just in case you didn't know. Slainte.

Whilst my experience is all pretty much workshop based rather than site work, I can attest to the sometimes low level 'instruction' provided to apprentice bench joiners and carpenters having myself some experience of teaching joinery apprentices at colleges. I have witnessed more than one...

I agree with the three contributions immediately previous to mine. Basically, the first consideration has to be, is the piece, this stump, a suitable candidate for conversion into boards and seasoning?, and if it is, how to achieve that reasonably economically, and successfully. If you're able...

As others have already indicated, that trick goes back to long before anything said by Paul Sellers, or any other contemporary instructor or guide. I've been telling and showing learners about it for decades myself and can't recall who taught it to me, but it was probably some grumpy old git in...

Yes, I'd say so. The idea with a marking knife is surely just to make a mark to guide a cutting tool, isn't it(?), rather than slash through the wood. Maybe I've got it wrong, ha, ha. Plus, I don't believe you made that marking tool yourself. Slainte.