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Majorlarf - try this thread.

Very nice. I like the simple lines, which always have to executed well to look good - and you've achieved that in spades! Thanks for the router table detail. The use of both a sacrificial base and fence is a new one on me and would have saved me some grief, so I'm pinching the idea - thanks!

Time to grasp the "bread board ends" nettle! Thanks to Paul and Olly for your inputs. In the end, when I came to mark up, the amount I had to play with if considering tradional M&T ends was marginal, so loose tenons it is! First job was to cut a square face on one of the ends, using 3 passes...

I agree with Chris that this is an indispensible book, along with "Practical Design Solutions and strategies" isbn 1-56158-344-8

Simon - you're pasting the link rather than the "embed image" function. To post from Picasa :- 1. On the RHS, click "link to this photo". 2. Select the size of image to be uploaded. I normally use large - 800x. You have to do this first because the link that you will create will include...

Nice clean functional lines, and very practical. Sure to get lots of use! So far as the bread board ends are concerned, unless I'm missing the plot, if the lid has been glued and the bread board ends have been spot glued in the middle and both ends, and the straps on the underside have been...

That is just stunning! I love everything about it. Sounds like it was a couple of years work - on and off? And like the others - more piccies please!

Just in case no one has noticed, it's b****y cold outside, but with a deadline to meet, it's been business as usual and spent much of the weekend in the workshop. Next job was to rout a 6mm groove all around the frame to take the panels. Then a light chamfer was taken off the edges of the...

Thank you all for your kind and helpful comments. Thanks Paul. I've cut a shallow groove on each side of the loose tenons with the ts, and if truth is told, there will probably be a little room for glue to squeeze out around the end of the tenons. Like the scratch stock btw. Yep - PVA...

With no constructive postings since my New England saltbox shed and with the moisture content of my pile of English Oak now low enough to work with (14 - 15%), and just as I was contemplating a bookcase, my daughter asked if I would make her a blanket box. As this is likely to be a smaller...

I've been looking for a dowel jig, and being by nature a "cheapskate" want to make something simple rather than throw £s at it. I found this one on the net http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/dowelmakingjig.aspx and having decided to make one I see that you have beaten me to it. Any tips? I...

Thanks Brad. Much appreciated.

Fabulous! And always nice to learn some new skills when taking on something like this. How did you find the veneering? Any tips you can pass on to us amateurs?

Blimey! Whats 21c? If I ever see that on the room stat I turn it down! :P

At around £1500 inc VAT that looks a bit pricey for what it is. I appreciate that is the price fully fitted, but for someone with good DIY skills they could have a full solar system for under £1,000 using a 20 tube panel, or around £1300 if fitting a new twin coil domestic hw cylinder using one...

Funnily enough I had exactly the same thought. Maybe just take a T off the infeed from the cold water tank?

As Mike Garnham has pointed out, you can remove the need for a new HW cylinder by installing a heat exchanger in place of the immersion coil. However this has the disadvantage that it will only heat water to the depth of the coil - typically 80 cms, and does of course mean that you have no...

Very nice. Love the boxes. Did you carve the initials by hand or are they routed?

Thats what they claim here. Agreed - but maybe offset by the rise in fuel costs? FWIW, I think in most cases, an economy Solar HW system makes good economic sense, particularly if you can DIY for around £800 - £1200, when you can also service it yourself because you know how it works. Not...

Another excellent site for all things solar is Navitron. This is the outfit that **** Strawbridge used for the solar installation in his house in Cornwall, and televised a couple of years back as It's Not Easy being Green. There is also a solar forum, which whilst a bit "wacky" at times also...