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Thanks Dean, that's a really kind offer, much appreciated. People are rallying round, I think we'll be alright now!

Thanks everyone, looks like we got away lighter than first feared. Fortunately the hire shops are still open so we managed to get a vac pump and a couple of dehumidifiers, and fortunately there was no sewage in the water, which is the worst! Mostly cleared up now, bit more then we will stop...

This was what I found when I went down to the workshop this morning: And this is my partner's: It's clear from the walls that it was six inches deep at one point. Happy Christmas Everyone :? :deer

Well if you put your imaginary centre (which you have to place somewhere to envisage the problem at all) on the Earth, then the sun indeed does go round the earth. Put it elsewhere and it doesn't. It's entirely a matter of point of view (in the literal sense). Regarding my original post...

The poor chap can't help himself, it just burbles out.

Accountancy (and particularly internal auditing). :?

I was probably being a bit mean with my caricature, Peter, it's true that there are a wider range of students with a wider range of motivations than in the picture I painted. As you say, many people do these courses for enjoyment and don't need or want to turn it into a career — what a great...

I was working at a school near Winchester a while ago making some fitted kitchens, and this bloke wandered in to have a chat. He had done the Barnsley training (one of the most highly regarded fine furniture courses in the country) a year before, and said he wanted to smell wood again and have...

Spot on Custard, you can make a living doing built-ins for sure, but that way of life is absolutely nothing like the dream sold by some fine furniture making courses, and those courses don't give you the skills you need to survive in the commercial joinery world anyway. Generally people who...

I came across this web page this evening: http://scansnap.fujitsu.com What got me thinking was the map. I was trying to click on my area and couldn't find the UK. There were a few moments of confusion before I realised that they have put the Pacific rim in the middle and the poor old UK is...

Think I will probably buy a bi metal blade to replace the one that broke, and just see how it goes....

Crikey, that's a lot less than I am paying!! Can I ask how long/wide your Lenox blade is, and how much use it gets? Mine is 4170mm (13' 6") x 1 1/2" I have been paying over double that for mine :/ I guess I could go down to a 1" blade which would save a bit.... Looking at the Conway Saw...

OK thanks for that. I've been using TCT for a while (because I do a lot of re-sawing of thick timber for veneer) and I'm trying to work out if the cost of resharpening plus the occasional breakage is making this a false economy over a bi-metal. The TCT ones are really good, but the price has...

Can anyone tell me roughly how long bi-metal bandsaw blades last between sharpenings compared to TCT ones? And compared to standard carbon steel ones?

Like so many things in woodworking, terminology is often not fully universal, and is down to where you come from etc. etc. Also many things to do with timber (or lumber!) are termed differently in the US (and different parts of the US) and in the UK. Certainly the terminology quartered, rift...

BB, try this link: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pDQ3lovUGzQ/UoTtVbrTRII/AAAAAAAAAWE/s5acODjXnnE/s640/cabinet.jpg

If you imagine a log sawn through and through, the rift boards are the one or two on each side of the central, Quarter sawn boards.... They are midway between quarter-sawn and crown.

I once quote for a job where the clients wanted a custom drinks cabinet made from mango wood and zebrano. I maybe didn't get it because they saw me wince when they were describing what they wanted....

Also, rift boards sometimes avoid the heart shakes you get with QS, so they are the widest boards from the tree that you can use in their full width.

Much less prominent and less wild medullary ray marks. Rift oak has very straight grain, and any ray tends to be flecks that follow the grain direction. So it is more uniform and predictable, and subtler, and still very stable as it is almost from the centre of the log. I think rift is much...