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Ah, sorry to hear that. No worries on the postage, it was a stamp. Three years?! I'll be dead by then. I want September by the latest :)

Making fish & chips, if this evening's debacle is anything to go by.

Earning a living.

Very good! I wish mine was as flattering... Ah, yes, but can you write a song about it, eh? Eh?

I've just finished a new bench. I used Fifths! :) Not in quite the same league, I guess. Mine has had 2 coats of BLO at the mo. I shall probably do another coat or two. It's mainly so that the wood does not get so stained and dirty, and that glue is easier to clean up, rather than a finish to...

This thread illustrates perfectly why you are slim and trim and I am not.

I am delighted to announce that one of my grafts has taken. The other two don't look any different than they did when I grafted them but this one has new growth on it. I can't work out whether that bottom one is above or below the graft, I'd need to remove the wax and tape to find out and I...

I suggest you wine it and dine it and see if you get lucky :)

My emphasis. Whatever turns you on, Mike, whatever turns you on. :)

To the tune of every blues song ever written: I'm self-isolating, babe, I've got the lock-down blues I'm self-isolating, babe, I've got the lock-down blues I can't go nowhere and show of my blue suede shoes. I can't get nuffink, I wanna go and buy some wood I can't get nuffink, I wanna go and...

I've done it only once and 20 years ago. It fell into the Pig's Ear category. But. It's harder than it looks and an ordinary soldering iron for electrical work is not the right tool for the job, it will destroy your lead. You do need the right sort of iron.

Ooh now that's an idea. I'd not thought of a name. I do call my drill press Lulu, as she was built in the same year that her namesake had a hit with Shout! I shall have to have a think. I did once know a rather lovely lady (in every respect) called Manda, but that might be a bit too...

Getting rid of the old bench was harder than I had imagined. My TS is not quite deep enough, so it was out with the handsaw afterwards I got a couple of barrowloads of firewood out of it And I think I did the job none too soon. Absolutely riddled... I have been filming this and...

I missed out the sliding deadman, so I can clamp. I've also got onboard power. I've bought a trailing socket that has the outlets at an angle, and this allows me to plug in things that have the cable coming out of the bottom of the plug or the top of the plug without fouling anything else or...

Just few loose ends to tie up. I've had this in place for a few days now and I can report that I am absolutely delighted with it. It is everything I had hoped for, definitely the best bench I have ever had. I've made a few bench dogs, of differing heights, so I can clamp or I can clamp I...

I always thought that FLW furniture looked far too austere. But I went to New York and one of the museums there (I forget which but it backs on to Central Park) and they had a whole room set out with FLW stuff. Together it looked Ab Fab and I began to see the appeal.

That confident, eh, Mike? :) Personally I don't think they would be fakes, as I think that that would be more work. The legs are not that thick up there, so you'd have to have two very short tenons into them. It would be easy to have a mortice in each and slot the oval in. It could be notched...

A 250mm bandsaw is very small indeed, not just in capacity, but it will have a power commensurate with its size. Try to spring for something a bit bigger, at least 300, 350 or 400 would be better. I have the big Basato and have never regretted it, but that is not a cheap machine. They do...

I have seen that chair at the Glasgow School of Art. IIRC the ellipse was fixed with wooden pins, trenails, which implies that the legs have a slot in them and the oval is in one piece.

The thing about furniture that looks good but is uncomfortable is that it can serve as a springboard for something new which takes the aesthetics of the original but marries them with the practicality of the more comfortable, but possibly more boring, counterpart. Found some pictures...