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Here's a set of top of the range marking knives made from premium materials (sic), i.e., hacksaw blade (worked a bit), pieces of scrap mahogany, and string soaked in PVA glue prior to wrapping and knotting it around the mahogany. One's a marking knife, another is a bird's beak knife for marking...

Leg to rail construction probably something like below, i.e., mortice and tenon, possibly haunched as sketched, or maybe not as shown further below. If leg is thick enough there's no reason to mitre the end of the tenons because the mortices won't need to meet at their extremities. Buttons as...

No doubt the carbon cost is an issue. I presume an argument might be made that the carbon cost is at least partially offset by the longevity in service of the treated wood in terms of durability. In other words, assuming longevity in service of the treated wood might be perhaps ~40 years...

High heat treatment of wood to impart specific characteristics has been around since the 1920s. Chief early protagonists for the research and experimentation with high heat treatment are Scandinavian and North American countries. In all it takes up to four days to treat wood with high heat; up...

Alternatively, try using a mechanical pencil. I like a 0.5 or 0.7 mm diameter pencil with a 2B lead - the lines are always a consistent thickness. Anything above H is too brittle I find around a workbench and wood. Having said that, I've also always got a few wooden pencils in my pinny...

What you've observed about brown oak lightening over time is a characteristic I noticed a good number of years ago. The attached picture shows a cabinet I made out of English oak for the carcase and brown oak for the door frame: just in case it's not obvious the brown oak parts are at the top...

I don't believe I can explain transferring information from CAD to the workshop situation any better to you than I have. I'm not quite sure, in the absence of linking CAD to CNC equipment, how working with CAD generated drawings differs from working with drawings developed on a parallel motion...

Yes, for those parts for which a rod is created. Otherwise why bother making a rod? Having said that it's quite commonly a case of making a rod for a carcase and then using the dimensions of the assembled carcase itself to fit parts to the openings and spaces within, e.g., doors, drawers...

I thought I'd answered that where I said, and I quote: I don't know of any other way to make a rod from a scale working drawing (e.g., orthographic projection) printed on paper, or the same drawing viewed on a computer monitor, e.g., laptop. Slainte.

It's done the same way as taking information from any other drawing. CAD drawings from, for example, Fusion 360 can print out 3D rendered perspectives as well as producing dimensioned orthographic presentations of elevations and sections. Alternative CAD programmes have similar capabilities...

CAD is a 'proper' drawing. With CAD you draw full scale and it's only at the printing stage that the drawing has to be scaled to print on paper. For example, to fit on A3 the scale could be 1:5 whilst for A1 you might be able to scale at 1:2. As to getting parts worked on CNC machines, in...

Oh, that's simple, Jacob: CAD to CNC machine, said a bit tongue in cheek. Funnily enough I just last week disposed of my A1+ paper size parallel motion drawing board which I'd owned for about thirty years, it being a replacement for an older one. I took it to the charity shop. Somebody might...

I've remembered that the machine was a Sedgewick. As to cutting the joints, it's basically a case of cutting all parts of the same profile to length on a radial arm saw, chop saw, or similar: for example cut the top and bottom rails of a light (sash) to the same required length. Then have one or...

It's a single end tenoner. Funnily enough, even though I can't remember the manufacturer's name, I've recently used the same model for tenoning scaled down window frames in a teaching situation. Some of the apprentices picked up on how to set up and use the machine quicker than others. Slainte.

Tannin in the wood, iron and water are the cause. Common with tannin rich woods, metal planes, and sweat or other sources of water. It's not a problem to worry about. Final polish prepping of the wood removes any black marks. Black marks on the soles of planes can be ignored. Slainte.

No. Once the shortest dimension is found the sticks are screwed together at that shortest dimension and marked with a triangle, or similar, across the pair of edges so that they can be disassembled and reassembled later whilst retaining their extended dimension. Naturally an additional note has...

Telescoping measuring sticks were a method I was taught to take critical dimensions of a space. Basically you chuck some 18 mm plywood strips 2440 mm long X ~75 mm wide into the back of your vehicle and go on site. On site match the sticks to the space, usually two for vertical dimensions and...

I don't have a problem with creating rods from scale drawings. On a side note, and to correct a misperception you seem to hold, Americans in my experience, having lived and worked there know what I call rods as story sticks. What I do struggle to understand from your description of a working...

Ta. Slainte.

Here's a question Jacob, and bear in mind I'm primarily a furniture maker not a joiner knocking out windows and doors on a regular basis, so maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick completely . The drawings I produce, or that I've received from designers to make stuff are almost exclusively...