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If appearance is important and you can't find a board wide enough, you might consider finding a timber yard which can sell you two 300mm+ wide consecutive slices from the same log. Then you could edge joint them bookmarked, to avoid random grain lines across the joint.

Lead flashing? I found 364mm widths online, around £45 for 3m. You only want a metre though. Lay across the roof, tap it down along the edges and galvanised nails through to hold it, would be my best guess. But this is just a guess ...

Cheap enough, 99p each online (plus postage though). Something like a .015 should work. Plain steel, but the cheese coating should prevent rust :)

My guess is that you glued on the veneer in comparatively high humidity. As humidity drops the veneer contracts across the grain. The plywood doesn't (much, if at all). The resulting stresses are relieved by cracking at weaker spots. Try checking humidity before glueing. Glue two strips of...

This ebay seller can do you 100 for £18. A search might find cheaper. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264077564676

I'd have thought they'd still float, or at least float semi-submerged, with an aluminium tube down the middle. Charity shops will sell you a fistful of tubular metal knitting needles for pennies, so it would be easy to try it out - tape the right length cutoff to a scrap of wood and throw it in...

Couldn't you just edge joint two 600 mm boards?

A little Google searching tells me these are: shade ring pliers. But no one seems to sell them, all I found were vintage (and sold). Set up an eBay search alert, I suggest.

I tend to pad on shellac rather than FP, as that works better for me. I level and polish up afterwards. I've used pumice for pore filling. What the pumice does is to abrade the wash coat of shellac and the wood, and force the slurry into the pores. If you are sparing with the pumice, it goes...

Dont forget that you can, at least in theory, FP just that part with the crack. Depends how easily the wax comes off, but if it dissolves and washes away with the white spirit that might be worth trying. New FP should meld in to the old invisibly, the hard part will be making that part level...

http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan3.htm Most of what you might want to know about the plane, which should have a rosewood sole.

This is what I did, buying job lots of old chisels from eBay. Admittedly I now have rather more 5/16 and 3/8 chisels than I want or need :) Average price buying in lots of 5 or so seemed to be around £3 each delivered, and there was always at least one in each lot that was a good one. Single...

If you heat it, glue and then turn the heat off there's not much smell. If the glue pot is warm all day ... Food gelatin works, but is really high gram strength so it gels almost immediately. You have to get the joint really warm to use it successfully. Lower gram strength HHG gives you a...

Luthier supplies are your answer, something like this: https://beareandson.co.uk/hide-glue-159-p.asp (I've not bought from them, but you could email queries about the smelliness) I use ordinary pearl glue for my instrument making and put up with the smell. I can get invisible glue lines...

Can I ask for clarification, as you clearly know more about this subject than most, including me. My understanding (which could be wrong) is that 60% efficacy means that 60% of those vaccinated have enough antibodies to prevent infection serious enough to cause illness, while 40% do not. If I...

I've just remembered- I learnt only to brush from the centre to the edges. Bringing the brush *on* to an edge pulled a lot of shellac off, causing runs. Might that be the cause?

Ahah! You need to be asking women the question, not a bunch of mainly male wood workers. FWIW my wife is always worried by wooden wine boxes. She feels they ought to be reused, so burning them feels wasteful. I wonder if you should look at boxes for perfume - those are selling a concept...

I think you should switch focus from the box - from other replies, nicely decorated cardboard could do the job better. Have you considered a suitably decorated and printed booklet which tells your story? This is something the recipient might keep, rather than throwing away. Good design isn't...

I've seen that when shellac is applied too thickly. You need lots of thin, even coats, not a few thick coats. The problem is that the thick coat appears dry, but in places isn't. When you apply another coat over the top, it softens the whole thing in those places and the shellac then starts to...

I'd say you have your answer! The maximum width your boards will reach is an extra 2.5mm. In practice they'll never get that wet , so you could allow a little less. That might mean: 2.5 mm per board to be absolutely safe 2mm per board should be fairly safe. 1.5mm per board is being brave...