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Their solid wood products are of European beech, which may be of high quality, but useless for field gates with beech being non-durable. A gate made of this stuff will almost certainly fail within five to seven years, even away from ground contact. Durability in ground contact is the key for...

Sticker stain most likely. Slainte.

In January this year I started the process of getting a replacement front tooth, an implant, because I didn't like the gap caused by losing the existing tooth. I was told I'd probably need a bone graft and that if I continued to smoke the bone graft would almost certainly fail. So, a few days...

1. Pedestal 2. Column 3. Foot (feet) See here for how to arrange the grain in the feet for optimum strength. Traditionally and typically, the feet were attached to the column with a sliding dovetail plus metal screwed in web hidden underneath, rather than a mortice and tenon as you have done...

Maple = non-durable. As Fitzroy suggests, it's a very poor choice for outdoor furniture with a life expectancy of five years or less in ground contact. Away from ground contact life expectancy is significantly longer, but it discolours very quickly, and goes black and mouldy. Meticulous...

Eat your heart out at this link if you want - there's even an excerpt at the link you can open. To be honest I find all the hoopla about this toolbox a bit much for my taste, but each to their own, I suppose. Slainte.

People have been rhapsodising and drooling over this tool chest for many years, even decades perhaps, but an alternative interpretation might be that Mr Studley simply had plenty of free time on his hands, ha, ha. Personally, I've always wondered if it was really practical, or if getting at the...

The problem for me with whom in phrasing such as 'To whom shall I write the prescription', or 'To whom shall I send the subscription' is that whoever said it or wrote it maybe appears a bit up themselves and pretentious. I don't care if whom is the right word in such a sentence, but I do care if...

Okay. No really good reason seems like as good a reason as any... maybe. Slainte.

Yes, exactly my question. There has to be a good reason to go to all the trouble of making pieces of veneer just 0.2 mm thicker than standard material... well, I hope there's a darned good reason, anyway, ha, ha. Slainte.

I'm commonly intrigued to hear people say they refute an accusation against them of some form of naughtiness, or worse, and I wait in vain for the accused to offer some form of refutation indicating the allegation is false, but a refutation is almost never proffered. I've come to the conclusion...

That may be the case. H Singh did actually state some parts were "untreated", and I mistakenly assumed the green coloured framing was tanalised rather than just treated. But going back to his supplementary question about Barretine's Wood Preserver (rather than the Universal Wood Preserver)...

Interesting. As you say, you have a pair of gates made with a mixture of tanalised parts (the softwood framing), and standard construction grade (i.e., not tanalised) softwood T&G boarding. If I was tasked with having to paint the gates I'd probably go for something from Sadolin. Wickes as...

Oh! I wasn't expecting that comment which came from nowhere as far as I can tell, but that's very kind of you. Many thanks. But bear in mind that over the years I've also made a lot of stuff I was very happy to not photograph: just make it, get paid, next job please, ha, ha. Slainte.

Is there some reason why you can't simply buy and use constructional veneers, or veneers pre-cut to specific thicknesses? Mundy Veneer, for example offer veneers in a range of thicknesses, from about 0.4 to 2.5 mm and greater. Capital Crispin on the other hand seem to offer thicker cut...

The key is understanding how wood behaves as it changes moisture content. When you understand that you have to learn how to make things in such a way that allows the wood in products to expand and contract without being detrimental to the structural integrity of the product, whether that be...

I suppose that's possible because I was living in Texas, and I think you're somewhere in the north east of the USA. I'm aware of at least eight species of oak that are sold commercially as white oak. Quercus alba is the primary species in the white oak category, and I can't recall more than two...

Now, that is really interesting. It's a pity we aren't near each other because I'd enjoy putting you to the test on that. I say that because I've had a few make that claim to me face to face. Yet when I've presented them with examples of both types of oak to examine superficially, i.e...

So why bother coming here in the first place? Is your goal to irritate and antagonise as many people as possible as fast as possible? You're not the first I've seen arrive like a bolt out of the blue and post furiously for a short while, usually swiftly followed by acrimony and accusations by...

I suspect this is going to be interesting to watch. Two days ago on Saturday August 24 2024 a spark took hold and became a 44 post inferno (and counting, probably) within that 48 hour period. How long will this last I ask myself? Will this inferno burn itself out just as fast as it sprang up...