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It's perfectly reasonable to ask the question - that's the point of the forum. Both American white oak and the European oak vary significantly in character, and that variation carries through to converted and seasoned timber. In both cases, one example of one type can be markedly different to...

Assuming the original is European oak, then where it grew is immaterial because it will almost certainly be either Quercus robur or Quercus petraea, although there's an extremely slight possibility it might be Q sessiliflora or Q pendunculata. If a buyer comes across a description of oak that...

Have you tried the 'Block Sender' option? I'm with BT Internet (my email address ends @btinternet.com) and I go to their email system to see what emails have arrived. Anything I don't like the look of gets either marked as spam and/or I 'Block Sender'. After I've screened emails this way, I'll...

My teaching was in the HE sector and, as such, lecturers were expected to have a 'research' profile. In this case, that meant a mixture of ongoing professional practice, i.e., in my case designing and building furniture, exhibiting it, selling it, and so on, and increasingly as time went on...

Well, I remember back in the 1970s an acquaintance making a sofa with a curved laminated rear cum side rail using PVA adhesive. He ran a groove along the top edge to accept the metal tangs of the rubber seat webbing. A few years later he was called to say there was a problem. The problem was...

I can appreciate where you're at. I had my own business in the USA up until 2003, at which point I was offered a full-time teaching job at a furniture college in the UK, which gave me chance to move back here - I suspect I was at about the same age when that happened as you are now. Admittedly...

It's generally best to avoid aliphatic or PVA type resins: they suffer from glue creep, i.e., bent laminations tend to straighten because the adhesive retains a certain amount of elasticity. It's best avoid polyurethane adhesives also: as these cure they expand into a foam, so if you're unable...

That's quite a long radius, and assuming the 2.3m dimension refers to the arc length rather than the chord length I think your estimation of a laminate thickness somewhere between 8 mm - 12 mm is probably in the right area. The best thing would be to build your bending former to the arc...

Probably best not to leave it unsupported at the front, but you could test it by sitting the worktop on top of two supports spaced roughly 2,100 mm apart (saw horses?) then apply weight, e.g., sit on it as gently or as hard as you like. If it feels a bit flexible then an intermediate support or...

Well, I did a bit of research. Basically the idea is to find a bit of old furniture, or make something a bit rusticated to start with, and if you feel like it, give it a bit of a sand, apply paint, then get some abrasive paper and/or sponge sanding blocks, and sand the paint off a bit at...

The left hand image above appears to show the surface has been scraped with something, and that the colour seems to be primarily in the existing polish, although the base veneer may also have been dyed. Assuming you are not going to chemically strip the existing polish prior to refinishing then...

Well, I'm sorry you didn't get the help you wanted. I suspect if you'd been a bit more patient somebody would have eventually tried to assist. I did actually look at your question, and looked at the photograph (poor quality and low resolution as I recall), but was a bit stumped by your...

I'm definitely improving Droogs, I have to agree with that, but I'm a long way from really competent though. There are masses of commands and techniques I've hardly explored at all, but I keep giving things a go, primarily simply because I'm interested. I do enjoy playing around with computer...

You could, but if you think a bit more about it, why would you? If you're putting together a frame there will be the inevitable cleaning up around the joints with either a cutting tool of some sort (e.g., chisel) and/or water, and/or flushing off two parts that are slightly out of level, e.g., a...

Reviving an old thread, but just an update on my exploration of drawing using Fusion 360. Basically, I'm getting better, but I'm quite some way shy of competent. One of the challenges I set myself was to try and execute a decent drawing of a cabriole leg. I still haven't worked out a really good...

Flexing in more than one direction is useful where the path to be followed has sweeps in opposing directions. A good example is that seen in the classical Edwardian roll top desk. In those examples the ability to flex in both directions was usually accomplished with interlocking flute and bead...

It's possible a cold work area may be having an effect. However, I suspect another potential likely cause of your cracking problem might be overly thick application of spray. Without knowing which specific product you're using, if it's their 8FM/Fastmatch Severe-Use Waterborne Colours, for...

Well, I can on my left hand, but not using my right because the end of two fingers are missing. I guess that makes my left hand useful for old pre-decimal units, and my right hand decimal. I prefer counting using the joints on my right hand, which I suppose means I prefer the decimal or metric...

My parents were farmers, and my father used to buy old railway sleepers and other large lumps of timber by the lorry load (after Beeching) to turn into fence posts between which was usually strung barbed wire and/or sheep netting. They were cresoted and full of grit, lumps of metal, and other...

It looks odd to me as well. I've always thought the preferred look is the knuckle in line with the bead, with the bead sized to match the arc of the hinge knuckle. That doesn't make me right, it being just my preference. Slainte.