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Yes. Slainte.

Like niall Y, I suspect it's a cup shake. If it completely encircled the trunk it would be a ring shake. The causes or cup and ring shakes are varied; it may be due to sever flexing of the stem during high winds or because of old age and, more often than not, the shake forms in the region where...

Forget about building a cross cut sled with that saw, it's a waste of time because of the existing cross cut fence, which is good enough for basic cross cutting, and also forget about getting an after market cross cut fence because that's a waste of money. If I was in your position and had...

I agree, it's looking good. But I do have one cavil: my eye keeps getting drawn to what seems to be a visually uncomfortable cutting off of the border at the top of the window, especially as the horizontal architrave above the door isn't similarly covered or hidden. Slainte.

Sorry, did you just experience a bad case of human verbal diarrhoea ... or did you simply highlight, copy and paste the verbal diarrhoea that, after a prompt of some sort, your preferred AI chatbot thingy spewed out for you? Slainte. PS. My tongue, may, or may not have, been firmly in my cheek...

SawStop does have a significant flaw: it's supplied with a long rip fence, an excellent piece of kit for encouraging kickback. Get that sorted and SawStop may have a case for being sold in Europe. Of course, perhaps everyone realises, as I do, that SawStop was primarily developed in response...

Cyma Reversa. Slainte.

Going to the sort of length of undertaking the oven drying test for moisture content is more than likely unnecessary for these bits of wood given that they will have been kilned to ~7% MC in North America and unlikely to have regained moisture to a point higher than about 12 - 13% MC since...

You might look at PEG (polyethylene glycol) and pentacryl, both of which are wood stabilisers. I'm not sure how well either will work on big lumps of oak which are renowned for developing shakes as they dry, as demonstrated in your opening post. Slainte.

I'm struggling a bit to understand the difficulty you're experiencing. That precision of 1.5 mm you mention is intriguing: just to be overly pedantic and nitpickingly precise (humorously I hope you'll realise) do you mean a roundover (ovolo) with a radius of 1.5 mm, or a diameter of 1.5 mm, or...

Oiling exterior oak is basically a waste of time unless you're willing to put in the time required for regular seasonal maintenance. In my experience 99% of people don't do the maintenance even if they swear blind they will. Read this thread. Slainte.

When I lived in Houston I designed and made an exhibition piece, a cabinet for which I wanted to gross about $5,500. The gallery put it on their floor with a price tag of $15,000. I didn't manage to get a sale there, perhaps surprisingly, or not. Slainte.

I seem to recall I had a bit of a go at you for doing the same thing, i.e., putting a slip on the back of the drawer front. I guess the configuration he shows works so for him it's okay, and I suppose a magazine editor liked the look and explanation of the methodology. I wouldn't touch his...

Kind of weird slips though. He sounds American and I suspect, like most Americans, drawer slips are a bit of a mystery to them (that's my experience of American woodworkers anyway) and he's come up with what might be called an unconventional arrangement, aka basically the wrong arrangement, as...

Not entirely true. American white oak heartwood is classified as moderately durable (10 - 15 years) and the heartwood of European oak as durable (15 - 25 years. In both cases the sapwood is liable to fungal and insect attack. I have found that in service American white oak is not quite as...

I don't know if a thermostat exists with the type of heaters I showed. Anyway, I really don't mind, if your number is right, paying about £1 per week to prevent rust on quite a lot of my tools; it might even be cheaper than letting my tools get rusty leading to repair or replacement. Also, bear...

I've always found that a heat source in a tool cabinet is the best way to prevent rust build up; no oils or waxes ever needed. The old photo below shows a 25 watt bulb in one of my tool cabinets. Bulbs were a bit of a pain needing frequent replacement and care in putting tools in to avoid...

The snail bit you've ordered is also very good in soft metal, e.g., aluminium, which is worth keeping in mind. I've no idea how many countersinks I've put into aluminium trim with my snail bits. Just got to watch out for the sharp edge of the metal that spirals out, but I've always got my...

Slainte.

True, it does foam and fill gaps, but the foam is weak adding nothing significant structurally, so not a good choice if strength is required. Epoxy resin adhesives do have gap filling and strength giving properties, so might be okay for Thinny, but the two tube Araldite option is a poor...