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Hello, Without meaning to cause offense, and in the realms of just being helpful, you need to reassess you glueing technique. The glue is likely to be fine, though buying better quality glue is always the best policy, cheaping out on glue is a false economy. However, the glue in your pictures...

Hello, I'm glad you can and do, Custard. I just wish I could do so as well, but tried, failed and reluctant to try again. Keep up the good work. Mike.

Hello, This is why it is hard to make a living being a maker. The amount if work required to make just a 'simple' chair is disproportionately high, in comparison to the value the customer ascribs to it. Quite often a dining table and chairs set will be priced so that the table, ( high...

Hello, Splendid work, Custard. Just the sort if thing that 'does it' for me. Well done. Mike.

Hello, Also, tack rags can cause adhesion problems with modern water born poly. I know a fine maker of marquetry boxes, who cannot avoid getting different colour dust contamination after sanding. It is just a matter of the meticulous use of a powerful vacuum cleaner, dusting brushes and...

Hello, A lap joint requires cross cuts, but you won't find a cross cut blade with a flat top grind, only rip saw blades have flat top grinds. Similarly, grooving blades are a rip cut, so won't do what you need. They are really too small a diameter for 10 inch saws anyway. I would invest some...

Hello, Avoid anything new! Used Wadkin, Startrite, Sedgwick lots of others too, but all almost always 3 phase, so if you have 3 phase electrics you are spoilt for choice. If you have only single phase, you'll have to budget in a motor change, or inverter. They do come up single phase...

Hello, The fat max is OK for being a light weight trestle support, but I would avoid if you actually need to do any sawing, they just aren't rigid enough. And too high; why are commercial saw horses too high? I would make your own at the correct height for actually sawing on, they don't have...

Hello,. I've done it on an ash chair. It adds no colour as such, so the ash stays nice and white and the feel of the finish was kinkily smooth :oops: the finish is dead flat matt too. However, since ash, maple etc. which benefit from no added colour from the finish, really rather yellow with...

Hello, If you don't have, or not inclined to build a router table, then a combi plane or two would be handy. An electric plunge router is a fine tool, but it is a pain to groove or mould narrow edges of stock, hence a router table is usually also necessary. However, a plough plane or combi...

Hello, Indeed! I was being oblique. Perhaps we can write English instead, though. Incidentally, the cap iron effect is not something new to me. I found out when I was a lad that closely set was helpful for cranky grain. It was just a matter of experimentation, as the setting recommended in...

Hello, What is a chip breaker? Mike.

Hello, In fact that plane is an ideal size for a scrub. Because they are used to remove big, thick shavings, the blades tend to be narrow. 1 1/2 wide with a radical camber is common. It does not look as if your iron is cambered, though, but the mouth looks wide enough. Might be an easy...

Hello, Daft question, but the alloy fence on that saw slides backwards to provide a short rip fence, many saws do this. Why don't you do that? Regarding the other point on fence to blade parallelism, it should always be the case. If fences which are poorly constructed cannot be adjusted to...

Hello, It must be so reassuring, living in your world, wherever that is! Statement 1 is totally untrue. There are numerous ' efficincies' that can be employed, that result in a structurally sound but sloppy looking outcome. Statement 2 is true and by making it, you are actually endorsing...

Hello, You certainly might start with a slower, neater method and try to become faster with practice, if the product you were making sold on the basis of its quality. Fast and sloppy will just get a pile of firewood and the worker lose their job. Structural house carpentry, perhaps the opposite...

Hello, I think Wearing was referring to chain drilling being unnecessary, which isn't the same as drilling one relief hole for the waste to fall away. Chain drilling is a waste of time if the mortice is to be chopped with mortice chisels. A single relief hole does have a useful purpose. It may...

Hello, Here in blighty, at least the part I live, OBM chisels, or pig stickers, were simply called joiners mortice chisels. The clue to the fact that they were not designed for furniture makers. Mike.

Hello, I only have registered and sash mortice chisels. Oh and some firmers. I'm a furniture maker not a blooming ships carpenter. Pigstickers are a bit crude for my tastes. That said, I don't often mortice by hand these days, occasionally for fun, or demos at school. Sometimes it is quicker...

Hello, If it wasn't for all the chasing the stock around the bench top and putting it in and out of the vice over and over......I think it is a good forgiving technique. Perhaps all the to-ing and fro-ing was just for the demo, and he would normally clamp the stock down to the bench top, which...