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The thinner sheets you'll only find in model making suppliers - both my local towns have a shop. They stock 1.5mm, 3mm and 6mm from memory, in 100mx600mm sheets. Always spruce, usually obeche (soft and yellow, easy to work), and quite often mahogany. Online you can find walnut too. Plus other...

I dont know, though I know a few cajon players! All theirs seem to be ply, which makes sense. These things can take a battering from an enthusiastic player, and worse from being transported to and from pub gigs. 3-4mm sounds about right for the front, and of course the carcase has to take your...

First thing, wipe some white spirit on the planed surface. That will give you a good idea what it might look like under finish. It's possible that the colour contrast will largely disappear. If not, others may have something to suggest - I know that wood bleaches can help remove dark stains...

Would a plane like this work? £5 Chinese plane on Amazon You'd need to spend time setting it up to work OK, but I'm told the irons are acceptable. More importantly, one of your joint projects could be shaping it to fit his hands.

I promised a view of the finished uke - my show and tell is at around 2:00 after the song. The Laundromat Swing

Maybe one or more washers, filed down to fit the recess which the bushing sits in, would do it? If the bolt is narrower than the slot then model making shops sell brass tubes in 1mm increments which fit inside each other. If you have a 6mm bolt and an 8mm slot you'd need 7 and 8 mm tubes...

Could you devise a system using something like this, at US $5 each? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32973339435.html No promises it would work, though, as I don't do electricity beyond plugging in.

A quick search found me solid (laminate 3 ply) oak doors very like your drawing for under £2,500, I guess plus VAT so £3k. https://www.aspire-doors.co.uk/external ... -solid-oak Would yours look better and be cheaper? If not ... And to be honest, if you're relying on PAR timber to be an exact...

But do think about what you plan to make next - you'll end up with several planes over time, so your first should suit what your immediate plans are. I, for example, have no need for a 4 1/2, 5 1/2 or even a 5 because I mainly make ukuleles. OTOH my Quangsheng no 1 gets quite a lot of use. If I...

I've made a guitar case from 6mm MDF, which bent fine over a hot pipe. I reckon heating the MDF with a heat gun (to Ouch hot but below scorched, practice on an offcut) will make it take up the curve. But it will soften your glue joints, which will harden again but be a little weaker. If you...

I'd guess they'll move again. An end grain shot would help to predict how. Humidity changes do this. I work with wood not much more than 1/16 inch thick, which moves enough to split itself if held rigid. I'd be surprised if your much thicker planks could be held flat. There might be techniques...

When I was consulting to a City law firm I'd occasionally point out to a client that the hourly rate didn't mean much. Of course they could find a cheaper lawyer, and pay her or him to read my book, but my overall cost would be less. So I'd focus on your estimated price, not the hourly rate. If...

I had to give up working yew. The first few times I had mild skin itching, and then a little wheezing, and finally a trip to A&E with breathing problems. But I know others who dont suffer at all. So keep dust down, and if you find it mildly irritating then move to another wood and give up yew...

This is a guess, but it might work if you seal the surface first. Obviously your sealer has to resist cellulose thinners. Might shellac work? Test first, obviously.

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I have two, one an old blue real Stanley (if I can find where I put it), probably 40 years old. The paint has flaked off most of it, but it works well. I have a newer, black one - unbranded, much thinner metal, but that also works well. None of the plastic ones last for me, and those with...

A good rule of thumb is Fat Over Lean, never the other way around. An oil finish over a shellac base works nicely, and is not uncommon for finishing musical instruments. All the luthiers I know would advise not to use the oil finish as a base, for two reasons: 1. Oil finishes takes weeks to...

My suggestion was purely theoretical - I've not made anything like this (I mainly make ukuleles, where the stresses are rather different!). I'd definitely make a test piece - just a single box the full width of the shelf and however wide you think you will space your ribs - you seem to be...

You might want to consider a different approach. I'd be calling to say that an unfortunate mistake has been made, and they sent you ash instead of oak. Obviously they're going to sort that out for you, so you are calling to find out what they plan to do .... [at some point in the conversation...

I suspect this is no help, but I have flown torsion boxes. Wooden gliders where the load is taken by a single spar (an I beam about 100mm deep made of 6mm ply, I think), strengthened by a D box (leading edge of the wing) about 100mm high and 150 mm wide, skinned with 2mm ply. This is carrying...