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It's roasting, I'm all sticky and claggy. 19deg C here in the shade, too scared to go further

The guy in the video is using power tools rather than hand tools. If you want to make it using hand tools then get a compass plane and a hand fret/scroll saw (looks like a coping saw but with a much deeper frame up to 24"). Use the fret saw to get a rough shape fairly close to your marked...

Yep socks would have made all the difference

not if you have some half lapped cross timbers in the frame for the panel to attach to with finish nails. similar to the example below

12mm or even 9mm will suffice

☝️+1 I stand on an 18mm base in the workshop all the time and it feels sturdier than the step stool thing I have. I'm 108Kg btw

The rule is a year an inch to air dry. Wood is basically a collection of straw bundles and loses most of its moisture from the open ends. Paint the ends with some form of sealer to slow down the moisture loss at the ends to prevent cracking/splits and put the wood into sticker. Be prepared for a...

use a pair of nail pincers to grab the nail and lever them out

You need to put a price or if it is FTAGH.

er... :unsure: :ROFLMAO:

tome feteira are excellent

Yes just use a cloth neat. It will not raise the grain of the veneer and is quick drying. The type of eraser is the white soft plasticy ones not the hard rubber ones, I suggest that as sugar soap has to be diluted in water which could lead to problems with the veneer. It also doesn't remove any...

They are telling you that you have a plywood door with a hardwood edging and a skin of veneer in the wood of choice. As you have not sealed it , get yourself a big staedler soft pencil rubber and use that to clean the surface and then wipe off with Iso and give it a light sand with 400g and then...

Use a bandsaw rather than a table saw to make the laminations. You have to watch out for Holly as she keeps popping down the pub with Ivy :D

Do a scarf joint. then you can blend it in by sanding smooth

Although he really doesn't like to blow his own trumpet Sgian Dubh of this parish has authored a book published by Chris Sxhwartz's Lost Art Press that is probably one of the best foundation reads for anyone who wants to understand working with wood and why it does what it does called "Cut &...

I had Norse Pagan as my official religion on my army docs so that the army would have to give me a Viking funeral if I had headbutted a round by mistake.

Have the central slat and the 2 runners fit into dovetails when assembling the bed and they will pull it straight. Does mean you have to have a beefy supporting lip all the way round

While Logier and Auriou make the finest hand stitched rasps in the world, for those of us either too poor or who do not use them every other day, I would suggest the following company - Tome Feteira. That make excellent quality affordable rasps and have been for nearly 170 years, that the rest...

What, they have a squirrel problem there too?