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Great work, always enjoy your threads. Jim

I grew up in Rainham and would be delighted to help if I was still there, but if I was I might not now be woodworking! Some fond memories - I used to ride bike time trials on the A13 and A127 on a Sunday morning 50 years ago, it would be suicidal now. Hope you find someone who can help but an...

Nice work, Jack. I generally dislike working with metals (dirty, scratchy stuff) but I might just be tempted. Jim

+1 for shellac. The beauty of it is that you can apply several coats very quickly and then cut it back/burnish it to whatever level of sheen you want. This is what I do for anything that does not need a highly resistant finish. It has the advantage that the sheen level is permanent. If you...

It can happen but is certainly not inevitable. Often it is a consequence of varying moisture content through the board which will correct itself if the wood is allowed to equalise its moisture content. Jim

I think Jacob is being unduly pessimistic about the loss of thickness when resawing. Using Tuffsaws vari-pitch 1mm kerf blade I have successfully resawn and surfaced ash with a loss of only 3mm. Admittedly, this was with a good band saw carefully set up and great attention to the right...

If you had a reasonable bandsaw you could slice through the thicker stuff to double up the quantity you have available. Jim

Looks far too organised to me. Jim

Ply takes screws better too. Better in everyway than mdf for this job. Jim

As far as I can tell, pretty much all the water borne finishes have a milky appearance in the can and that does translate to some extent to the finished film, so they don't have quite the clarity of something like a pre-catalysed lacquer. They also tend to have a rather cold look which can be...

It's a floor finish and Bona products are probably the best out there, but it is hard to believe that that level of wear resistance is required for mirror frames. The Bona finishes are water borne and, like all such finishes will look much warmer and more natural if the wood is first given a...

That depends on the light source, modern energy saving types produce very little heat and, depending on the design, the chimney effect should carry most of that away vertically. Jim

I think Roger may well be right. However, if you do want to experiment some more, my own experiments indicate that polyurethan glues such as Gorilla glue have the most flexible glue film. You will need to dampen the veneer ffor it to work because it is the moisturein wood which triggers the...

Avoid the diy sheds at all costs. Jim

I don't see any problem with circumferential sharpening. In principle it is no different from what many freehand sharpeners do when they register a bevel on a stone and sharpen by drawing the bevel along the the stone with the bevel parallel to its long edge, for the extra stability that gives...

I haven't tried this http://on.aol.com/video/how-to-sharpen-forstner-bits-with-a-rotary-tool-302212014 but it is the method I think I will use when I get round to sharpening mine. Jim

I take mine, including planer chips, to the local green waste recycling tip. I have also tried leaving it in open topped plastic sacks outdoors. Over a couple of years it rots down to make quite a nice mulch material not unlike leafmould. However, this is not a good idea for walnut dust or...

It depends on the tools. I am only interested in making top quality furniture (not always as well as I would like) so have equipped myself over the years with a good collection of high quality tools. I figure the best place for these is with an organisation that trains young people to work at...

Quite so. I used to visit a certain US forum where I became quite friendly with a guy from the mid-west. He had strong views and liked a discussion, often at some length, but never in an aggressive way. He was subjected to a huge amount of vitriol and eventually banned from the forum amid...

A thoughtful post, Ross. And one which has served to demonstrate some of your points. If a post is too long for you or too philosophical in approach, why feel the need to be abusive instead of just ignoring it. Surely there is a place on a forum such as this for everyone. Some of us like...