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I'd be careful of stating that as fact. It's absolutely a matter of opinion. Not one I share, as it happens. Tedious? Maybe, but it's only 4 or 5 minutes. Skilled? Not highly. It's pretty simple, and hard to get wrong unless your eyesight is poor. Besides, woodwork is supposed to be skilled...

It's a really difficult thing, commenting on the aesthetics of other people's work. It crops up all the time here and on other woodworking forums. Because we all have widely varying tastes, but are gathered together in this group by our common love of woodwork, we get to see lots of stuff which...

There's a Paul Sellers video on Youtube somewhere which is pretty clear and simple.

Welcome Rob. Buying a fancy expensive saw won't solve your problems. It will help for a while, but all saws go blunt, and then they're difficult to use well. Ideally, you want to stand next to an old hand for quarter of an hour and be taught saw sharpening. That's all it will take. But here's...

Thanks. Yes I struck lucky with a fresh delivery of stock at the Builder's Merchant, so most of the stuff is pretty straight. The smaller shelves in oak were a single board "cut & shut", so there wasn't any point reversing the grain. The big worktop I did, but the grain is fairly wild and so...

Andy, how do you make links like that, with a thumbnail of the first post of the thread you are linking to? Everyone seems to do it, but I've no idea.....

Cycling shoes, I presume? With 14 fixings, I doubt it's going to fall off the wall! :)

Welcome. Square cut? Much hardwood is sold in waney edged sawn boards, and you need to rip it to width yourself. Are you after planed or sawn stock?

I can't get any sense of the scale of that. Is it full sized, or for a doll's house? If it's full sized, it goes into the "fun, interesting, but wouldn't want it in my house" category I'm afraid. What is the black wood?

The top piece of wood at the back......holding the back edges of the cupboard the right distance apart, and to fix the back board onto.

Warning......lots of photos. :) Maybe a few piccies will distract us from forum navel-gazing. My next task was to make the shelf supports for the floating middle oak shelf. I'm not great at working with small bits of wood, and workholding is one of the reason. This time, it was...

I've done all-glass balconies 15 stories up in the air. If you attacked it with a sledge hammer or a rifle, you wouldn't break it.

:) Ask yourself in whose interest that would be. Therein lies your answer.

Welcome. Firstly, lucky you if you've got a plentiful supply of cheap or free wood! Secondly, be aware that branch wood is going to be full of stresses and most of it is going to be unsuitable for any situation where one piece of wood joins to another. Thirdly, if this wood is newly cut, then...

Keep on going with the poison. They go through stages of their life-cycle fairly quickly, and you may have killed the larvae but missed some eggs, for instance, which have since started munching. What's the state of the wood? If you poke around with a screwdriver or bradawl, do you find soft...

Point of order from a spindle moulder ignoramus.......but is that actually a spindle moulder at all? I mean, a moulder has a block, doesn't it, with vertical slits carrying knives? This looks more like a horizontal circular saw to me. Not that this nomenclature issue changes the level of danger...

Looks great! The end is nigh.....

Is there a table in your near future, Bill?

Did you mean to attach some images? If so, it didn't work.