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240 grit is more than fine enough for film forming finishes such as, in your case, varnish. It's a myth that surfaces need to be sanded to silly numbers like 1,000 or 4,000 grit prior to applying a polish, especially if working with coarse textured ring porous wood species. Sanding to somewhere...

Also known as cratering or crawling. As profchris says there's contamination, e.g., silicone, oil, grease all being possible. The contaminant(s) could be on either the surface you're finishing and/or the gun. As he says do a clean up and try again. A rather desperate measure is to add...

I'll not argue with that, especially for the tasks you describe. I'm sure round bench dogs, as opposed to bench stops, have particular beneficial uses although I can't describe them because I can't remember ever having worked with round bench dogs so I've never had the chance to explore options...

There's a good reason why I have an extra dog made out of wood. When required I replace the metal dog with the wooden one it's good for thin stuff. The truth is it's probably the case that I used to have a wooden dog. I haven't seen it for a while and I suspect it's lost and I need to knock up a...

It's the same with a dog. Knock it up, or push it down, and use. Bench stops, or a dog in isolation are fine for planing bits of wood of small width and thickness, but in isolation their pretty useless for working on wide panels. That's when you need to screw or nail another piece of wood...

I've always known those as bench stops, and I've found them quite handy from time to time. My bench doesn't have a wooden one like yours so I just use one of the bench dogs from the row of dogs as a stop if I need that sort of facility. I suspect you consider a bench stop a more essential piece...

I'm aware you're a fan of that style of bench, and I'm pretty sure I've seen the scanned image from Greenhalgh's book of the bench in earlier posts of yours. I've never seen the book you referenced though, not that I think that matters. Your version, I see, varies from the drawing in that your...

I've always had a fondness for that standard pattern of workbench. It's actually very similar to mine which is an Ulmia bench with just the one wide surface, a tool well and rear upstand, which I suspect may be slightly longer than yours, and maybe narrower. I think possibly being longer may be...

No. Perhaps you should follow the advice you so frequently offer to others, i.e., read more attentively (what I wrote). No, I'm not convinced, hence the hesitant "I think". I guess the hesitancy didn't project through the lack of audible tone, lack of facial expression, and perhaps an invisible...

Jacob, I'm sure you're aware of my little piece, A Lesson in Sharpening. It's been around for more than two decades and was written a bit tongue in cheek. In it, I suspect you'll recall, is the method I was taught to sharpen bench chisels and plane irons. It's pretty simple: a stone, some...

There isn't really. Just let it age. Twelve months ago I replaced a broken slat in the top of an old oak garden table. It's now almost indistinguishable from the original slats. Slainte.

I've used it a number of times and it's put together as Peter describes. It's also pretty reliable for easy bending, but unlike Peter I think your plan for 1.5 mm ply as a ground for veneer would probably be beneficial, especially on the convex curve. I say this because the bendiply grain tends...

Lacquer thinner breaks the bond of oil based contact cement and over the years I've used it a number of times for that purpose, e.g., problems with laid HPL that after flopping down had to be removed and then replaced. Cheaper than lacquer thinner is gun wash, which is much the same thing. I've...

Jacob, old buddy, I'm not as green as I might look cabbage, despite appearances. Slainte.

So, how often do you go there and say something like, "I think Jeremy Corbyn was/is hugely misunderstood, I'm a LEJOG cyclist despite the overabundance of cars and lorries on the roads, I wish I hadn't voted against Brexit, and I'm hoping to organise some local housing or caravans for a few of...

An acquaintance told me of training his dog to play the trumpet whilst travelling on the London Underground. It seemed a daft idea to me, but he reckoned he got it to go from barking to to tooting in just under an hour.

As Jacob indicated, they're exit holes, and most likely those of the now mature and flying common furniture beetle or anobium punctatum. They emerge and look to mate and lay eggs in crevices in the wood (coarse grain, cracks, splits, etc) or intersections where two pieces of wood meet, e.g...

Presumably you've checked the plug's fuse where I'm assuming the machine runs through a three pin plug? Slainte.

Externally, use AC Lacquer, or even pre-cat lacquer. Neither are oil, but they're both durable and lacquers are available in spray cans for small projects. Slainte.

Ash is an excellent material for internal furniture of all types, including bookshelves. I can't recall how many pieces of furniture I've made out of ash, either American and European, with a number of those pieces being shelving of one sort or another, including book shelves. On the other...