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What I find fascinating is that some of you seem to use your personal mobile phones in your employer's business. So you've got a mobile that mixes personal use along with your employer's needs, and it seems that in some cases your employer has access to your phone, can monitor your use, and...

Clear cuttings refers to the visual quality of the wide face or faces of a board involving assessing the number of visible faults and the length and width of clear cuttings that can be won out of a board. Systems, rules and categorising the boards varies from country to country or region to...

Based upon the additional information you've supplied I suspect, like Dee J and HOJ, the black marks are caused by the chemical reaction that occurs between water, iron, and the tannin in the wood rather than mould growth. You mention mixing oak dust in with the filler, so that's a source of the...

Moulds like moisture. It's likely your joint/gap filler maker has a point: fungal spores can remain dormant for long periods in adverse conditions waiting for the right conditions for growth, i.e., generally warmth and water, so it seems likely you supplied the water when you did the filling...

Cut it off at the shoulder line, then make a new slip tenon that goes into the photographed piece and into the existing mortice. Reassemble with adhesive and perhaps replacement trunnels or drawbore dowels, whichever they are. Slainte.

You have a radially sawn slab of wood, indicated by the visible medullary rays on both faces, to which has been attached mouldings to one face. The most likely scenario is that the slab would have been flat at the time of manufacture and there has been shrinkage across the width of the slab...

1. Festool Service Centre? 2. An independent small power tool repair business? 3. Buy a replacement? Slainte.

GUIDANCE FROM THE AA FOR TRAVELLING IN ICY CONDITIONS When travelling in icy conditions you should take with you a shovel, blankets/sleeping bag, extra clothing including scarf, warm socks, hat and gloves, stout boots and/or wellington boots, 24 hour supply of food and water, de-icer, rock...

I'm afraid you've lost me, and unfortunately your photograph doesn't seem to help, either. I'm not sure what it is you're asking for, but I suspect the answer is in the formulae I provided earlier because they both calculate the angles needed for pyramidal type structures, i.e., the dihedral...

Use the formulae given to calculate tablesaw or compound mitre saw angle settings for any combination of corner and tilt angles. In the drawing below: A = Corner angle formed by the two workpieces. A = 90 for a square corner, 45 for an octagon, 60 for a hexagon and 0 for a straight line. B =...

I've generated 'quick and dirty' estimates taking little or no time except getting a rough idea of how much all the solid wood will cost (excluding all the other costs just for this estimate job, e.g., plywood, hardware, sundries, workshop running costs, etc) and then simply multiplying by ten...

Butternut (Juglans cinera) aka white walnut is a decent relatively cheap substitute for walnut, and fairly easily sourced in North America in my experience. I can't say I've ever seen it for sale here in the UK, so that may be a stumbling block. The problem with all the suggestions for walnut...

Block their email address, or addresses, at your provider's server. Slainte.

Six or eight castors would surely lead to the cabinet pivoting vertically on one or more of the mid-point castors as you move it about, and perhaps when stationary. What you need are four castors, one at each corner rated to carry whatever load the contents of the cabinet are meant to carry...

If your perception is that the applied dye creates a 'cold' colour mix other colours into the base Van **** (walnut) brown: red and yellow are two I've used many times to adjust the hue of the base colour making it warmer. With a bit of playing around with proportions of different dyes in the...

My suggestion is even more radical, extending your suggestion: use the graining technique for all of it on top of something easily worked, such as poplar. Of course, that would mean finding someone with highly developed graining skills, but they exist and nowadays frequently describe themselves...

Softwoods, pines in particular have long been used for tables, mostly kitchen or country type tables. Douglas fir is another popular choice. The main initial consideration generally is to source material which has been kilned to a furniture grade target i.e., somewhere close to 8 - 12% MC and to...

I've always found benches fixed to the wall a pain in the pants. There's always a situation where you have something like a frame or panel you need to work on that's wider and/or longer than the distance between the front edge of the bench and the wall at the back. You end up with a big chunk of...

Yes. I've finished many a dining table with pre-cat, and so have dozens of other makers. It's like every other finish having pros and cons. Pros, for example, are speed of application and decent durability. Cons include damage to the film leads to ingress of liquids to the wood below and...

Me neither. A scribing cut is one I think of where, for example, a tenoned rail is cut to create a moulded shoulder on the tenon where the mould reverse matches the profile of the moulding on the morticed part, e.g., a tenoned rail of an architectural door where it meets the stile's mortice, all...