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The good old brunsviga mechanical calculator operated by a simple crank handle ….no micro chips 🤪🤪

splits in a cookie cut slab of timber are virtually inevitable. Warps & cups are easily dealt with using your router and a milling table setup. From a food hygiene point of view a cookie disc isn’t ideal as it will contain softer sapwood around its edges which will damage quicker than the...

Depending on where you are fitting the glass element(s) ……if below (as I recall 600mm) from the floor the glass will need to comply with ISO12600 - ie be toughened or laminated for safety reasons, but as it’s an external door laminated would offer greater security and you may have to fit double...

Thanks Rog 😀…....it does feel a bit light ….so your probably right, I’ll know more when I clean up the surface more …….will still work well as the legs on my cookie slab tables though.

Travelled across to where I lived almost 10 years ago today to collect some oak slabs from a new contact A real treasure trove of a place …hes actually a stone mason but a real hoarder too 😁 Got a 88 x 27 x 3” thick slab of oak …quite a split down the middle but will work as a stiched bow tie...

A small side/coffee table for my eldest daughter ….30mm walnut on hairpin legs

Acetone & petrol are in the category of solvents …they act by breaking apart long chain molecules causing them to loose their structure. Acids work by oxidation…chemically ‘burning’ elements or compounds changing their structure.

Nice day today (well dodging a few showers) to get the milling table out again a level off the second (bigger) beech slab. A couple of passes with the router fitted with the 3 cutter tipped spillboard bit …taking about 3mm per pass and I’ve now got a flat slab. Filled on with a quick run over...

Acids work in a totally different way to solvents when interacting with plastics

Ethanol can slowly extract some of the components of hard clear plastic containers. If you need to use plastic something like Lexan is best - think higher end laboratory ware plastics

Spent yesterday evening burnishing the top surface of the cookie slab with 0000 steel wool, then applying a few coats of Black Bison wax next step is deciding on what timber to make the ’double X’ pedestal from ….black stained softwood maybe or go high end with some oak or other hardwood.

Have you got any more details/pics etc on that idea

I’ve ripped a narrow edge (3mm) off yellow balau hardwood using my dewalt radial saw …. pawls set low to the board and a slow feed rate quite successful

I use mine for ripping, you just have to be aware of it grabbing the board and pulling it through - slow & steady is the answer

👍……..spent many an evening in my 20’s in the club darkroom printing my rally pics and some landscapes too

And when the Russians tried to shoot one down with a missile ….they simply accelerated away from it 😂😂😂

They have a Blackbird at the museum at Duxford …..its amazing and considering it was an unarmed aircraft it looks so menacing etc

Till the wings fell off them !

and they can howl too 😁😁

The Imperial War Museum at Duxford are just finishing off a full restoration of a Victor …looks stunning. In the 1980s I was driving back from a walking trip in the Lakes when my mini started to vibrate thought I had a flat tyre …..then a Vulcan appeared in a tight low bank turn across the M6 ...