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I recall the electricity meters that had a disk that span to register the usage. At one point, as a student in London in the 1970s, I shared a flat rental with six or more other degenerates (er upstanding members of society), and all a bit The Young Ones some five or more years before the TV...

A drawing/sketch would be helpful. However, laminating may not be a good idea for external constructions: weather conditions may lead to failure of the glued joints over time, e.g., a year or so. Also laminating is time consuming and requires jig making plus lots of clamps. You say that you...

I say do whatever you need to do to get the results you want with the skills you have and the tools you use. I admit that I don't use any of the techniques you described, such as edge planing with shooting boards and using the surface of your bench to run the side of the plane along, attaching...

I've never paid much attention to 'gurus', Jacob. They came along some time after I went through basic training as a furniture maker which, I suspect, occurred before you made your first inroads into being a woodworker, even though you're quite a bit older than me. It's probably true. I think...

There's not a cat in hell's chance of me buying an extra blade with one sharpened straight and the other sharpened curved ... so that I can swap them in and out all depending on the task. I'm afraid that for me a curved sharpened edge is good for everything. Slainte.

All my bench planes have slightly curved cutting edges, arced being the term I prefer, but cambered seems to be the preferred nomenclature of the majority. I essentially replicate your described methodology of using the curved edge of the no 7's iron to square a board's edge. Funnily enough, I...

I agree; wood can certainly do funny things sometimes. I've experienced similar distortion after sawing thick oak boards. Still, I generally avoid and encourage others to avoid specifying tension as a cause of distortion after cutting a piece of wood. The cause of the distortion might be...

That bit above the window still looks a bit visually off, I'm afraid, even now that you're painting it all. I understand your reasoning for doing what you've done, but my eye keeps getting drawn to the incongruity of the look. Slainte.

I'd say "something along those lines" is a pretty good description, but I'd eliminate specifying tension release as the cause of the very slight bend visible in the supplied image. I'd say, if was going to say anything at all about that tiny deviation of a bit of sawn wood, "stress was released"...

I was living and working in Texas in the late 90s and early 2000s and what you describe is pretty much my recollection of the reason given for developing SawStop by its inventor, Steve Gass. No idea though about SawStops in the background of American woodworker's 'how-not-to' (sic) videos...

Dye, typically sold as 'stain' in the UK is molecular. The molecule that provides the colour dissolves in its appropriate solvent (water, oil or spirit) and when applied to the wood the colour binds with the wood fibre. Pigment stain typically includes a dye, as above, but also contains solid...

Van **** brown (VDB) dye, aka walnut dye, plus yellow and red dye, all dissolved in water as the solvent. Use extremely dilute Van **** brown e.g., start at about 20 ml of VDB per 500 ml of solvent and increase/decrease proportions from there. If necessary, add a smidgen of yellow and or red to...

What about asking your retired local sand blasting bloke if he might sell you some of his kit, and if that's not on, ask what he recommends you buy, and even perhaps where and what might be a reasonable price either new or second hand? After all, he should have a bit of expertise and experience...

Yes, and also commonly called through and through, slash sawn, plain sawn and crown cut. Slainte.

I appreciate the Cut & Dried recommendation. As to who has it better between the US and the UK I don't think there's a clear cut answer. They're very different and having lived and worked as a furniture designer maker/ joiner in both countries along with being a teacher of the subject in the...

In truth, any one of those sizes would be fine because your primary purpose for using a biscuit in that circumstance is to help with alignment, not really for strength. But, if you really feel strength is important (it almost certainly isn't) then size 20 provides the most. Slainte.

Even alone in an old fashioned telephone box, maybe? Slainte.

Your approach is somewhat unconventional, although your understanding of wood expansion/contraction is good. It's true that total expansion and shrinkage of, say, 10 tangentially sawn red pine boards 100 mm wide at their driest in service will be the same whether joined together into one wider...

I suspect it's not a true oak at all, but something closely related to, or actually is Australian silky oak, aka cardwellia sublimis. Another possibility might be grevillia robusta aka southern silky oak. Whatever, I suspect one of those Australian species. Slainte.

Something like as illustrated below is what Cabinetman is describing regarding setting the rip fence. You should be able to see, even though the snaps are poor quality, that the rip fence is set so that the wood being ripped clears the front end of the fence almost as soon as the rip cut is...