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How cold? If it was below about 10 deg C is too cold. Secondly, how wet? The wood needs to be dry and that means below 20% MC. All adhesives, except polyurethane types, will fail if the wood is wetter than this. A sure sign of failure through excessive moisture with PVA type adhesives is that...

What you are proposing is overthinking and overengineering on a grand scale. Create your holes or slots in the metal 0.5 mm wider than the widest shank diameter of a woodscrew, e.g., 4.5 mm slot for a no 8 (4 mm dia) screw, or 5 mm slot for a no 10 or ~4.5 mm dia screw. Use a roundhead wood...

Ha, ha. You must be, er, extremely old with a vampire like life/death span. Slainte.

There isn't a good reason to use threaded inserts. Just use wood screws driven directly into the wood, after you've bored a pilot hole, of course. Slainte.

The metal plates at the top of the legsets screwed to the underside of the panel should be all that's required to prevent cross-grain cupping, assuming that's what you're concerned about. Just make sure you put the screws through at the mid-point of the slots provided to accommodate the wood's...

I grew up on a farm and we burnt wood in open fireplaces. We had ideal storage which consisted of a shed closed on two sides and at each end, which faced the direction of the prevailing wind, it had vertical boarding spaced roughly 2 - 3" apart, plus a similar gappily boarded door. Floor was...

I think you've got it. Permanent set, alternatively called compression set in table tops (for instance) is usually something that develops over quite a long period, sometimes a very long period and caused by moisture cycling. Not every panel experiences moisture cycling to any significant...

... and may also be influenced by ...? See section 7.14? For other readers, yes it is deliberately cryptic, but I imagine Droogs will get it. Slainte.

I do find it interesting, and appreciate your response. I've already done some research and also came across your question and the ensuing discussion at Arbtalk (I think it was) - or at least I presume it was you because of the way the question was framed there, i.e., similar or the same text...

Personally, I can't see a good reason to use an oil for this purpose. I'd rub down and use a paint from Sadolin, e.g., their Extra Durable WoodStain, or a Sikkens product, e.g., Cetol Filter 7 plus. I have a couple of exterior doors, their weather bars, their frames and the threshold painted...

The 'why' is almost certainly answered by the difference in time exposed to UV rays and oxidation between the existing doors and your reclaimed door. UV rays and oxidation darken pine and other softwoods through clear finishes. In fact, UV rays and oxidation affect the colour of all wood species...

I'm struggling a bit to understand the problem. If you require material to finish at 18 mm and you're finding it difficult to get this out of rough sawn 1" (25 mm) stuff, I'd simply buy the next size up, i.e., 1-1/4" (32 mm) then face, edge and thickness the boards to 18 mm, rip to a width that...

Have you tried contacting Ebac. They do have technical support and guidance at that link to their website. It may help you. Slainte.

The benchmark method for ascertaining wood moisture content is the oven dry method, and this is method used by kiln operators, for example, that really need accuracy to within very fine limits. The methodology, as I assume you know, is to weigh a small sample of a piece of wood of unknown...

That could be an interesting project, and with those big knots, some loose, they might be the cause of distortion in any worked boards. So your idea of keeping it all a bit rusticated and chunky is probably the right design approach because it allows for future 'character' developments, i.e...

Powder post beetle (Lyctus) is fond of ash. There are stories from North America of boarded ash stock significantly attacked by the beetle, as well as severe attacks on felled sawlogs and boarded up and air dried stock. If your wood was carrying lyctus larvae, I suspect the infestation occurred...

I'd have to say that to see common furniture beetle exit holes in American ash kilned to ±7% MC (the North American target MC) appears anomalous. As has been mentioned it's considered by those in the know to be virtually impossible for the freshly hatched larvae of this bug to survive in wood at...

Here's one version of it used in a couple of pieces of furniture, although I'd only ever known it as a double twisted dovetail. That was the case until more recently I became aware there was a Japanese name out there - no idea what though, and at some point I then heard it described as you...

Presumably the desk top is no longer attached to its base, so no match is required, unless there is a base that is made of a different material or materials. If it happens that the top has an existing base in the same material and an existing finish it would normally make sense to refinish the...

Interesting design challenge there in adapting that Valentino triangle plus cylinder based console table to something suitable for a desk. The triangular base in that piece extends quite some way forward to the front edge which would leave you with limited leg room. At this point I can partially...