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Okay. Fair enough. I'll be interested to see how it looks when finished. Slainte.

That makes sense and solves that little mystery. Are you incorporating a back panel as well to cover the rear ends of the tambours, or will that be left open? I realise the back won't normally be seen if the cabinet is up against a wall, but if this was my piece I'd incorporate a panel all the...

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be poncey using hifalutin and impenetrable words and phraseology. Let's see if I can say it somewhat differently, even if it doesn't quite convey precisely the same message, but hopefully close enough. Chunky, solid, substantial and utilitarian set against what's on...

I must admit I was wondering about that issue of getting the tambour in place. The image below illustrates what you're talking about. In this about half of the base to a tamboured cabinet shows where, at the very bottom right corner, the groove for the tambour staves or slats has a lead in and...

Rustic in some interpretations can, I suppose, mean live edges, knots, splits, and so on, although there are probably alternative names for that look. I don't think rustic is a description that can be specifically pinned to that aesthetic. I tend to think of the description rustic attached to...

Ugly. The mis-match between the slab overlay doors and units in oak veneer and grey paint along one wall, juxtaposed with the vaguely rustic solid wood island, and side table with the bent metal legs, and then the grey sink unit thing, plus the brick floor is all very disjointed thematically and...

I won't argue with that, but MDF is generally considered to be about as abrasive as European beech as far as wear and damage on saw blades in use is concerned. It's a little curious that this 48 tooth blade was okay hacking sapele and pine (ripping and/or cross cutting? not specified), but was...

I suspect the question by Ringus was focused more towards jointing shelves or vertical dividers into a cabinet or a similar joinery task. Mitre lock joints are primarily useful for creating corner joints, although they could be pressed into service as an alternative to a panel edge joint, so...

It's possible, but not overly likely. You might consider doing a tongue and groove/housing. For 25 mm thick MDF cut a groove up to ~12 mm deep using any convenient router bit with a diameter between, say, 9 mm and 16 mm. Then work a tongue on the mating piece using a ±16 mm router bit and cut...

Hopefully you've still got an example of the hinge, e.g., attached to another door. Look for the brand name on the example, which may mean removing it, and you might even find a part number or alternative useful information. Start your search from that. But just looking at the hinge in your...

Hand plane with a very sharp and finely set plane to remove saw marks and sand the edge working from 120 grit to 180 - 220 grit to get the edge void free and smooth, then follow up with, ideally, something like a sprayed pre-cat or acid cat lacquer. Being a complete novice (your description)...

It seems to me that's what JobandKnock might have observed, i.e., new active growth initiated by rewetting and some spores from the now dead source of the earlier/original fungal infestation. And having observed this 'renewed growth' then perhaps mistaken it as reactivation of the original...

It's fungus. Fungi are pretty good at invading when given the chance. Slainte.

It's a fungal infection. Entry was via the outer extremity of the knot which was a branch that was probably either broken off or cut off thus giving entry to the fungal spores. The blackened area left adjacent to the wiggly fine grey line is also decay, almost certainly fungal. Slainte.

I've moved across the Atlantic twice, once to the USA and then back to the UK ~10 years later. All I did was make boxes to pack tools I normally carry around in toolbags, and more boxes for things like clamps, finishes and other odds and ends. I just packed the tools in with a bit of bubble wrap...

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've never lost my 'in use' joiner's pinny since I started wearing one, which I think must have been sometime around 1969 or 1970 when I started bashing wood during woodwork lessons. Having said that, I do always have a spare pinny handy with a minimal collection...

I've no comprehension at all of how all you folks that constantly lose pencils must work. I guess I'm old school or something because when I start working wood the first thing I do is pull on my joiner's apron, and there in the pockets are my tapes(2), 150 mm rule, rubber, blob of candle wax...

Unfortunately that configuration has a strong tendency to be unstable. The problem with it is there is just one connection between a leg and a rail with the result that the rail experiences torsional stress transferred into it if there's sideways pressure on a table edge. The backwards and...

Pete's technical suggestion essentially matches a method I've used many times for a range of similar shaping tasks. Crucially, in the absence of using the impressive capabilities of CNC kit for working the groove in this case, it works very well as long as you take care and don't let the router...

I think you're in error. The DeWalt biscuit/plate jointer can also be set up to reference off the outer point of the mitre, as I described earlier, so that ability isn't exclusive to the Lamello machines. I've been doing mitre biscuits using that technique with my DeWalt for perhaps three...