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Well, I don't wish you to spend too much time looking. If the reference isn't readily available (easily found) and then needs scanning and processing in Photoshop or similar, it's probably more bother than I want to put you to. However, if you know the author's name, or can recall the paper's...

Brian, I suspect you either have, or used to have a particular interest in fungi, and it wouldn't surprise me to find you have connections to an organisation such as BRE, or some other research facility. I too have an interest in the subject, but primarily from generalists perspective of fungi...

Interestingly Brian, the WT Simpson paper on EMC you pointed me (us?) to is one I'm already familiar with having used it in my own research for something I wrote. Your figures for the EMC of wood in protected external locations, i.e., in a shed or barn for example are pretty much in line with my...

I'm afraid that information is not quite right. The only fungus that can establish and sustain itself in timber with such a low a moisture content (~20% MC) is dry rot (Serpula lacrymans). This is why the term 'dry rot safe' is common currency within the timber drying and woodworking community...

As others have said, what you're proposing entails a great deal of work and time on your part, plus the cost of materials. I'd estimate, just off the top of my head without therefore properly considering a time allowance for all processes, a time of approximately 0.5 hrs per slat, which would...

Deleted. The point I was making was already covered adequately. Slainte.

I assume you've watched the video, the link to which you posted. I noticed in that something that concerns me; it's the fact that the template used doesn't have a lead-in or lead-out portion, it's the exact required profile and no more. He has to engage the bearing of the cutter by plunging into...

If it's a one-off, I agree a bandsaw and a bit of chiselling and sanding (bobbin sander or not) would suffice. But if there are several I'd go with a router, as I described earlier. But I do have a lot of router experience and know how to set up for safe operation, in both hand-held and inverted...

Ah, johnny, now I think I see why I misunderstood you. You seem to have reversed the terminology I'm used to for bearing guided router bits. The description 'top bearing bit' is normally given to bits where the bearing is nearest the cutter's shank, the part that goes into the collet, commonly...

Are we in agreement, or disagreement, Ian? As I understood it he's looking to create something like a decorative knee brace or corbel type form with curves and steps across material that's 125 mm thick, something similar to the image/video link Markvk put up in a later post, see below. I was...

Surely that has to be impossible? If the part is 125 mm thick and the template sits on the face that's 90º to the 125 mm thickness then the only option is to use a top bearing bit to follow the template, and to rout from one side, then move the template to the other side and repeat. In any...

It's almost certainly an early stage in the development of olive ash, probably the result of a bacterial infection, although there may alternatively be a fungal cause. It's not spalting. Slainte.

Maybe this is daft, but couldn't you simply cut two pieces of wood (plywood for the lot?) ±200 mm wide to the height required and lay your shelf or shelves on top or in between, with appropriate joinery (glue and screw, for e.g.). Essentially it's a free standing shelf unit that just 'happens'...

Interesting Aidan. Throughout my working life I've come across far fewer 3rd angle projection drawings than 1st angle. I'd say probably ~90% 1st angle to maybe 10% 3rd angle. Increasingly though, certainly over the last ten years, I've worked to drawings that were presented neither in 1st or 3rd...

Move the rear rail back so that its face is flush with the rear face of the leg. Moving this rail means moving the bottom rail so the panel grooves still line up. Or you could just make a thicker top rail to enable making the leg and rail faces flush. Hinge with butt hinges and include a stay to...

It's flattering that you picked my drawing to open your thread, Brian. I don't yet have the skills to draw your bucky ball. However, here are my thoughts on CAD, 2d and 3d. I've never needed anything more than traditional 2D orthographic projections to make furniture or joinery items using...

Something like as seen below I'd suggest if you want good control and reliable results, although you can get steam bent wood to bend in multiple planes as a free bend, but the end results would vary from piece to piece. I took the photograph below at ercol, and it's also shown in my above post...

So Droogs, I studied the Loft tool in greater detail in Fusion 360 to see if I could get it to work to create traditional cabriole legs, and then experimented. The first result, below, wasn't very satisfactory, and used lofting - lumpy and clunky. The tricky thing with cabriole legs is that the...

Oh! That is disappointing. I was looking forward to seeing how Eshmiel would make me laugh, or at least smile, by putting me back in my box with an example of his stiletto like word diarrhoea (sic) - yes, it's an oxymoron. Slainte.

Ian, here is how ercol did it about a decade ago, and I presume they're still using the system. I think the jigs or formers were designed maybe as far back as the 1940s, and first example shown incorporate chains and linkages to enable creation of right angle bends in the legs and back rest of...