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Jealous! I found some smaller scraps of the same stuff when I moved into my workshop, and made a couple of small boxes from them. If I had your piece I would saw it into some lovely 2mm veneers, and some trim and then sit looking at them for a few years while deciding what to make with them....

I need to make a pair of small veneered panels for cabinet doors. They will be glued by splines into a light weight frame which will just be trim really — not enough to prevent movement of the panel. The panels are about 400mm tall and 200mm wide. The veneer will be sawn, about 1.5 mm thick...

Reasonably close to you, you could have a word with: http://www.borderhardwood.com I only ever want rift sawn oak, but trying to persuade timber merchants that I mean it when I ask for it is an ongoing frustration. The only yard I have found that I trust absolutely with this sort of request...

Thanks, Rhossydd. I have been playing with the HDR a bit, and you are right, I can see there is a lot of scope for over-enthusiasm with it :) I will have a go with different levels of sharpening as you suggest. BB, I have changed the links to a different variety, hopefully they will work for...

Well, after some more experiments it looks like the problem has been solved. I think the difficulty was caused more or less equally by three things: 1) The poor quality UV filter. I have thrown this away. 2) Camera aperture set too wide or too tight 3) A poor quality tripod. The tripod I...

Pete, that was very helpful! I am busy kicking myself over here, because I have just taken off the cheap Jessops UV filter that has been on the lens since the day I bought it (to protect it as you say) and immediately the images are noticeably better. Without the filter the images are clearer...

Rhossydd, thanks that was helpful. I have done some experiments. First the ruler trick — great idea, it seems the autofocus is working perfectly. I put the camera on the tripod and took some identical photos at different apertures to compare. The ones with a tighter aperture are a very...

Andy, they have lost a little detail in the transition to jpegs, but even on the original the book titles are not completely clear. I have just had a look and the aperture was quite wide for that shot — f4.6. I find that even with two flash guns (reflected in umbrellas) I struggle to get...

Wow, that was a fast response! Thanks everyone. A little more info. Yes, I have a tripod and remote, which I use when I need to. I have a reasonable understanding of the basics of photography I think. I also have a 'lighting setup' which is a bit of a lash up — a couple of Nikon speed light...

Wondering if any can help me with a photography-realted dilemma. I have a reasonable digital SLR (Nikon D80) which I use for taking pictures of furniture/joinery and not much else. For the last five years I have been using the 'kit' lens it came with which is a Nikon 18-70mm. I'm wondering...

I would guess that it is just any old D3, but they have branded it to appeal to a particular market....

If you want to burn it then the cheapest and most practical way (i.e. without investing in a briquetting or pelleting rig) is in one of these: Trying to burn it in a normal stove does not really work (in my experience anyway). I advertised mine on free-cycle and now have a few people's...

+1, I've been doing that for five years on my diamond stones, no sign of a problem at all.

Secondhand Startrite. This sort of thing: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Startrite-bandsaw-/121194921911?pt=UK_BOI_Building_Materials_Supplies_Carpentry_Woodwork_ET&hash=item1c37c7bfb7 Nothing you'll get new will come close.

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You think that's bad? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/electric-pizza-cutter_n_1937340.html

There's not that much in the way of fine furniture only fairs in the UK, as far as I know; one that I do know of is Celebration of Craftsmanship and Design: http://www.celebrationofcraftsmanship.com I have a friend who calls it 'The Festival of Tortured Wood'. He has a point. Other than...

I don't doubt it! I'm sure there were times and places where the traditional life was wonderful to be a part of, when certain factors all came together all in one place. It probably partly depended, as well, on the sort of person you were; we are all so different from each other, and some will...

Easy to say living in a culture that allows most of us a good measure of it....

I wonder how comfortable the chairs were. And whether the makers would have lived that life if they had the choice of another. Still it's good going! Apparently in the old days of boatbuilding a team of a man and a boy had to turn out a clinker dinghy every two weeks for the yard to make...