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No, definitely post, I was just disappointed as I didn’t spot it earlier.

First time I ever used a plunge saw I didn’t wait for it to get up to speed before plunging and it climbed out of the cut and gouged my track. It was a good lesson and gouging my track means I’m not so prissy about any dings or scratches now!

Very clever detail that. Lovely chair.

Click and collect and hardly any branches have stock :(

Haha, just read Naz’s reply. An element of truth in that right enough!

That’s what you get for asking the customer what they want! Infinite flexibility at lowest price point :) Maybe the approach someone like StewMac offer for guitar building kits might be viable? A few nice furniture designs and the components cut to size and thickness for assembly. Just enough...

Flat soled spokeshaves are much easier to use than curved sole versions. Flat soled are good for all but the tightest concave curves. They would struggle on the bowl/handle transition on a large spoon, or the heel/neck transition on a guitar for instance, but would be fine for what you have...

Be careful of how the grain runs for curves. You really need to be going down through the grain rather than up. With a concave shape, you will have to approach the dip from both ends. If you have soft splintery wood, then sandpaper is the way to make it smooth. I use a spokeshave out of...

Got lost in those videos, great stuff. Jeremy Corbyn really knows his boats.

Those are great. I am a bird watcher and crafted birds that don’t look “right” really annoy me; especially imaginary birds, or birds in the wrong environment (I know it’s my fault!). Those are really authentic and realistic Canada geese. I’d love something like this. What size are they?

You sure it’s not Colombian marching powder?

Subscribed. I would love to do something similar in my home.

For an adhesion test: apply the paint, allow to dry thoroughly, then apply sellotape to the new paint and pull off at 90 deg to the surface. A better test is to crosshatch through the coating with a Stanley knife prior to the tape pull off test, but that would make a mess of the chair. You...

Do you own a smart phone? Most have a voice recording app.

And, of course, you have to set the fence so that the piece is cut right to the top

So... I might have fundamentally misunderstood this, but it seems to me that the important factor seems to be that the square edge fits exactly into the birdmouth with no overlap. The number of sides is defined by the router bit as it sets the angle (60 deg for six sided and 45 deg for eight...

All you need to do is make yourself a bandsaw so you can make yourself a tablesaw so you can make yourself a boxjoint jig, so you can make yourself a box.

You mean there are people that use their track saws WITH clamps?! :D

I tried screwdrivers with varying success, but it became much easier when I bought a burnisher. Maybe my screwdrivers aren’t quite hard enough, or maybe my technique improved in the meantime. :)

Yes, if you are getting a card scraper, you should probably get a burnished too. They can be tricky to put an edge on.