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A factor I've always had in mind, which applied when I ran my own business, was to work on the basis that in a nominal forty hour week, which sort of begs the question, 'is there such a thing as a forty hour work week for a busy small or one person self employed business owner(?)', you will only...

I agree, but I didn't think I needed to emphasise or reiterate the point that the population of jays would be controlled to at least some extent by acorn masting in the same way as squirrels. I do think it's remarkable though, whether it's a masting year or not, just how large a percentage of...

That is a nice wee video, and I suspect the presenter, Steve Mould, intended to concentrate on the role of squirrels in acorn distribution for reasons of concision and punchiness, but a rival and probably equally (more?) important distributor of acorns are jays. Because squirrels are so...

That's not quite the case Chrispy. The typical common furniture beetle treatment fluids are permethrin therefore they are contact pesticides affecting the nervous system and kills them. The stuff passes through the insect's cuticle or shell. It kills only those insects it comes into contact...

Well, a no 6, being shorter is a bit more likely to follow rises and falls in a board's surface, and once you've found the high spots you can concentrate on lowering those first without having to take a lot of material off to get the board 'flat enough'. A no 6 or no 5 plane is, as you say...

Mike, I've only seen something like them once ... in an old library, one with doors funnily enough. I was involved in some repairs to nearby furniture and joinery when I had chance to have a bit of a look. I imagine the same pattern off the shelf is unlikely to be found easily, if at all, but...

A T shaped item where the short leg of the T is attached to a divider's front. A post near top and bottom of the short leg of the T with a centred hole in each at the extremity carrying a pin between with a spike extending beyond the posts. The pin carries two leaves that fold back to back to...

To be honest, if I was expected to use a saw with a, er, well ... a raving knife, I'd be very tempted to not attach it in the first place. I wouldn't want to be forever distracted and put off what I was trying to do by some crazed piece of metal raving at me all the time, ha, ha. As to...

Seldom do I join in these off-topic threads, but that (decimate) caught my eye, i.e., the evolving meaning of words. For example, it always jars when someone says, "I refute that", or similar phraseology that includes the word refute because my mind is then waiting for the accused to follow up...

Hmm? The writer in the link is evidently well meaning, and a bit of research shows he's an enthusiastic amateur rather than a professional woodworker and/or wood finisher with years of practical experience and training to draw upon. Reading that link on tung oil he'd written did rather suggest...

In practice you can build up a bit of a sheen on top of many wood surfaces in tung oil with burnishing with anything from 0000 steel wool to even a soft cloth once you've applied somewhere between maybe three and perhaps five coats. You can add more coats if you want prior to buffing up. Even...

It's never going to happen with any kind of oil, whether it be linseed oil (boiled or raw), nor any form of tung oil, nor oils modified through the addition of a resin as found in the form of Danish oil or teak oil, etc. None the finishes just described are able to provide any significant...

I don't believe the dryness you describe is relevant, and I can't see how that 'dryness' has a quantitative or measurable impact on how far any moisture is 'drawn' into the wood; the actual amount of water available through glue application to wood is really rather small in a glue up, whatever...

The explanation for that phenomenon is straightforward. It's caused by prepping and finishing the assembled panel too soon after glue up; I'm assuming you're talking about panel assemblies such as table tops. Adding moisture (water based glue) to prepared edges, the biscuits, and the biscuit...

I can't recall where or when I read it, and I haven't tried to find a source to back up what follows, but the message I got from my reading is that some experts think the genetic make up of ash trees in the UK has diverged (mutated maybe?) somewhat from many or all of those growing on mainland...

Specifically, I think Mignal is asking if you used something that has a significant ferrous content, e.g., steel instruments, tools or containers, or even if the water has iron in it? Slainte.

It largely depends upon the dryness of the wood. About 12 - 13% wood MC is pretty much the lowest MC in which common furniture beetle grubs can survive - 12% MC and lower is reckoned to be too dry for the grubs. So, for example, if the end of a joist or floorboard is pretty wet, say ~20 - 25%...

Standard woodworm treatments, including both of those listed already, have the active ingredient permethrin. Permethrin treatment in this form is topical (sprayed, brushed on) and should kill adults as they emerge from wood after their larval stage because it is a contact pesticide that passes...

I prefer to apply nothing. The reason being that if you apply, say, a bit of linseed oil just to provide a nice colour at the time of delivery, that within a few months the finish deteriorates until it looks pretty ugly with black stains and splotchiness, and this remains the case for a further...

I agree that both larch and Douglas fir are pretty good for outdoor use, even without any finish, with a non-soil contact life expectancy probably in excess of ten years, and more likely fifteen, maybe more. Slainte.