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The sheen I’ve got on my spalted beech cookie slab with Oli Natura hard wax oil is probably the best I’ve ever achieved…taken down to 2000 grit and once assembled as a coffee table I’ll burnish it with 0000 wire wool and several coats of bison wax

The bandsaws used in the meat industry have heavy duty brake systems linked to an optical sensor array that detects if a blue glove gets close to the blade. Works really well but creates a hell of a bang when it’s tripped.

Duplicate post 🤪

Finished the test design/build on the legs for the smaller cookie today. A mix of 145x45 and 90x45 scrap timber I had left around (the 145 was decking timber) assembled as a central X with halving joints and outriggers slotted down on the legs of the X tried to post up some pics …. the...

Back after a week visiting factories in Ireland and started to mock up some softwood legs for the table to test out an idea etc. I also applied a 1st coat of the wax to the underside of the slab and boy did it soak in …..I’d not used the epoxy resin to seal it and it took roughly 3 x the amount...

Fourth coat of the hard wax this morning after sanding to 2000 grit I’ll leave this to fully harden all week now

Another two coats of the hard wax oil today ……smoothed down to 2000 grit now. One more coat in the morning then I’ll leave it to fully harden until next weekend. Here is how much it takes to coat the 36” dia slab

I got the 1 litre for £19 on Amazon 😀

Started my work early this morning in the hope that we would have calm weather after the storm passed through. By lunchtime we had sun so I dragged the slab outside and set about sanding back the thin epoxy layer I’d used to seal the end grain and fill in some of the small surface cracks. The...

its A big 👍 fir the Oli Natura. Applied it onto my cookie cut beech slab this afternoon using a snazzy Clarke applicator dries quite quick leaving a nice sheen finish more details in my cookie slab coffee table thread

My Oil Natura arrived today …..did a seal coat of epoxy on the cookie slab last weekend - if I can get good weather tomorrow or Sat I’ll sand it back and do a coat with the hard wax oil. Watch this space and my other thread too

interesting lateral thinking approach 👍

Working from home 3 days this week so whilst sun was forecast today I started my report writing at 07:30 so I could take an hr out to apply a thin epoxy resin seal coat to the top surface The resin will seal the end grain and fill/glue the hairline cracks too. The grain & spalted areas...

The Chinese eat anything from a pig ….love trotters & heads etc. One ‘delicacy‘ is ‘fat end’ - sliced bowel & anus which apparently has a strong pork flavour 🤢

They have cockroach farms in China to supply the traditional medicine market

A few hours free today has allowed me to get the cutouts for the bow ties done and the balau joints glued in etc. here are the bowties glued in place The bow tie cutouts were created using my router then finishe off with a chisel ….no templates used for this 😁. Then out with the block...

my wife still likes Aramis !

There used to be one in The Gransdens near Sandy Bedfordshire in the early 2000’s

Still do 😂😂😂😂😂

And to be really authentic its ‘Cassie R’ 🤪