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I only ever use the centre dark brown wood on walnut. However, clicking on the image(s) to bring them up larger actually reveals three distinct bands of timber; a very light sap, then a wider but slightly darker coloured timber before getting to the really dark stuff in the middle. Quite what...

Nice frames. Although making a picture frame sounds 'easy' it's one of the most difficult projects to get 'spot on' as you have to make each of the two pairs of the frame absolutely identical as any error then becomes magnified at the corners. I've been doing my own framing now for a 'few'...

Nice job and well finished, but you're right; you have left the front rail a tad on the thin side which appears to make the legs seem overly large. With all those buttons underneath it's going to be tricky to reinforce the front/rear rails without removing them but there is a way, a little...

I've done that more than once. I now have a copious supply of coloured sticky dots from WHS so every joint is now colour coded and that sort of thing doesn't happen any more. Fortunately - Rob

Easily doable and it's a 'win' fix - Rob

I've tried this little trick just the once and gave up afterwards. I bought a bit of green holly about 300mm dia from Stourhead and decided to slice it up into 25mm boards. I made the appropriate sled and used a very coarse, wide blade on the bandsaw. The big problem is that you produce wet...

I use a white faced rubber mallet which works quite well, but the ultimate 'knocker-inner' is my 2kg lump hammer, one of the favourite tools of the late Alan Peters - Rob

Ta; nope, just a bit of pyrography using a pen from the 'old firm'. Walnut seems to take quite well to this sort of labelling; some woods don't such as laburnum - Rob

Last June I helped to take down a walnut tree growing in the garden of one of my wife's friends. I had one decent board out of the main butt although I said that I would make the lady in question a small box from some oddments of limb wood. Pretty straight forward construction...

That is particularly good to hear! Practice, as with most other things is essential and it's great to hear that you're getting to grips with the right techniques to use these saws. As I said earlier (I think) once you've mastered them you'll wonder why you ever used a Western saw - Rob

DW - PM sent - Rob

Great tour of the 'shop and a fantastic idea to stick it on UToob. I think we ought to see more of these 'shop tours! - Rob Edit - I could do shots showing North, South, East and West with a description of each pic but I've just found an *****'s guide to uploading to UToob. Need to have a tidy...

That's a relief SB. The Everbuild D4 stuff which I'm currently using has a supposed shelf life of around six months but seems to be OK for at least a year, maybe more - Rob

Some time ago I came across a very forlorn and filthy bit of oak propped up against a pillar in the woodshed at Yandles. No one was paying particular attention to it but I could see the possibilities for a cabinet with a curved door. The width of the cabinet is 280mm. Using my AP curved sole...

As an aside and off topic somewhat, the current crop of Barnsley offerings such as the ones above do absolutely nothing for me and I've also seen stuff like this being made on their open days. Back to the main topic; creating a curved form - Rob

Indeed and it works a treat. The Alan Peters blanket chest in Olive Ash completed last summer has a concave curve worked into the lid and most of the material was removed with a convex soled wooden jack; another one of AP's favourite tools - Rob

Interesting. I've just bought a very large :shock: bottle of TB3 and despite reading all the small print I couldn't see a 'use by' date. I've got it stored on a cold tiled floor in the larder where it's always pretty cool, so I assume this is the a reasonable way to store it, rather than in the...

They certainly find western tools (planes and saws etc) a bit 'strange' :D - Rob

A few years ago Mike Huntley (ex editor of F&C) arranged for Nagatsu-san to give a workshop for the then members of the Japanese Tool Group Society. He wasn't a saw manufacturer but a 'tuner'; simply by tapping the saw blade on his anvil to 'tune' it he could turn an ordinary Japanese saw into...

Agreed, but more importantly, you need to stand correctly. See wot I writ here - Rob