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10 TPI is too many teeth for ripping 6 - 8" thick material, even if it's only for short cuts, but multiple pieces as your query suggest. I wouldn't recommend grinding off teeth to reduce the tooth count because even what few teeth you leave behind will be small and you're not creating a proper...

Barefaced tenon is the name I know it as. Should the distance between the morticed parts, assuming there are two opposite each other, be critical the depth of the mortices need to be precise as well as the length of the tenoned part because the distance between the morticed pieces is governed by...

Be wary of construction grade softwood for an internal piece of furniture. This material is dried to a target of 20%MC ±~2% so is almost certainly going to continue drying after the piece is manufactured and installed, and therefore likely to distort. You ought to acclimatise the material to a...

No. Shrewsbury. I didn't know Brian Mackenzie's father. To be honest, your mention of the connection is the first I've heard of Brian's (Modernist's) father - or maybe I've heard of him, but forgotten. I'm guessing he was a tutor at Loughborough. Interestingly, the head of the course I was on...

Yes. Oh, what the hell, here's a link to something I wrote about edge joinery a while back. I suspect all questions about my opinions and preferences are answered in the above link. I'm out of this thread now ... I think. Slainte.

It's interesting to read people discussing preparing two perfectly straight edges in order to join a number of boards to create a wider panel as might be used in a table top, cabinet top/side, or door panel, etc. This is something I've never aimed to achieve having been taught to produce a...

Sinking the hinge leaves into both the door lining and the edge of the door prevents the door from dropping under its own weight: the short edges of the hinge leaves effectively sit on a narrow ledge at the bottom on the lining side and, at top, underneath a small return, shelf, or overhang on...

Regarding your earlier post suggesting I knew another Scottish maker who worked in a monumental style, I'm pretty sure it was Tim Stead because he was sometimes known disparagingly as Stonehenge Stead. In truth, I recall him being a very enthusiastic and personable woodworker happy to share his...

Hmm? Perhaps not. I don't think I could stand all the adulation, hero worship, and the probable constant attention of the paparazzi. Slainte.

Don't you mean gnu rather than guru? The technique isn't at all controversial, it's the one and only true way, surely? I should really knock up a bunch of YouTube video flim-flam and gather a bunch slavering adherents, idolaters and fans. Slainte.

Actually, if you're talking about the tenons shown at the bottom of the triangular frame, at left in the image, those tenons seem to be impossible anyway assuming that rail starts off at the finished width shown, because the tenons extend to the right of that rail thicker than the rail itself...

That was the second thing I spotted, after the tearout. I guess my eyes still work. And maybe I'm tempted to egg on further the main protagonists in this thread by mentioning how I hone a plane iron or bench chisel. I almost always, start honing by working the flat face of the tool a bit before...

Is that a hint of tearout I see between the knot and the edge of the blade in your image, along with a few track marks? I'm wondering if there might be a nick in the iron, a trapped shaving, or an edge is digging in, and it looks like you'll either need to adjust the cap iron a bit, or maybe...

I'd say it's a mistake to not charge a mark up on your materials, although I assume you're not doing that from what you've already said. There's nothing intrinsically ruthless about applying a fair mark up. If you think about it re-selling materials you purchase for a job at cost translates into...

How do they know you're adding a 20% mark up to your materials? It's none of their business, really. All that should matter is the price for the completed job. You can break down costs for components, e.g., for a cabinet with a nest of drawers as opposed to a cabinet of the same dimensions with...

Don't fool yourself. There are more than enough of inconsiderate and self important tw ats on bicycles. I've had groups of them, all MAMILed up try to intimidate me and my gentle pedalling on my lowly old not racer, not mountain bike, Raleigh. Then there are the blind, idiotic car (or any...

Let's see. Eleven pages, mostly stupid back and forth crapola. Cyclists? Simple. Give them room. I can't see what's so hard about that. Yes, I cycle, and I drive. I cycle a few miles for fun when I get chance. I'm no MAMIL, I'm more of an OMIB (Old Man in Baggies), and I just pedal along...

I really don't see why those gates can't be taken off the hinges and laid down flat to undertake a repair. Are you saying that they have to remain in situ and vertical as you do the job? If that really is the case I think I'd be rather tempted to simply sidestep the job. Anyway, if you can get...

I'd say you're overstating the ubiquity of Tormek grinders (or copies of that brand) to be found in "serious" furniture or joinery workshops. In my experience they're relatively rare. Some places do have them, of course, but certainly not all. Most of the places I've worked in had either high...

Possibly simply shrinkage. Scaffold boards are normally strength graded wet, which means they contain a moisture content of 24% or more. In service, even outdoors they'll, at times, lose moisture and shrink. Quite how much they'll shrink is perhaps debatable, but it just might account for a...