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Well you'll need to take a trek out into the countryside north of Braintree, but you're more than welcome once things go back to normal.

Suggesting that implements in the kitchen were "the wife's" would lead to a major misunderstanding in my house, and, I suspect, in many other households not stuck in the Dark Ages.

Planer. It's only a jointer in the USA and in Youtubeland.

It's a gorgeous piece of wood, and to bury it in epoxy would be a travesty. I suggest you "sit on it" for a while until the design solidifies in your mind......and, I hesitate to say it, your skill levels catch up with your ambition. Be aware that elm is not stable. I have a 300 year old piece...

Whereabouts in Essex are you? When social distancing is but a memory, come and stand in my workshop and I'll have you hand cutting dovetails yourself in under 10 minutes, within a day.

Look at both sides: are there big horrible knots, holes, or cracks? Sight down from the end, both edges.........is it roughly straight and roughly flat? If no to the former and yes to the latter.....is it the right size? Yes?.... then buy it.

Spindle moulder on day 4!! I'm in decade 4 and the thought of using a spindle moulder still scares me.

Thanks. Time for a re-start, methinks.

Is anyone else not seeing these images? They've disappeared for me.

It could be lumped together with green wood work, I guess, in that they all deal with unseasoned wood.

That works out to £2750 / cu m. I've just paid £1930, and that's for boards up to about 360mm wide and 2.2m long, which is rather more useful than 4x1 by 5 feet.

I don't mean to make myself a whole heap of work, but that's an absolute doddle for me in my drawing programme. If anyone needs something enlarging or reducing for printing to a certain size, spread over multiple pages if necessary, then let me know and I can do it via email and PDFs.

Well, if Custard won't be harsh, I will. Red oak is a horrible wood. It's bland, porous, unstable, and non-durable. I bought an entire pub floor of the stuff once upon a time, and most of it ended up painted, or made into jigs etc or workshop shelves.

Ooooh, I wasn't reading it as a veneer. If it is, then Myfordman has the right advice.

Bit of a pain to have to take your chain off each time you wanted to sharpen it, though.

No, it's been like that since I made the shed. It's only a temporary door. I'll make a proper one one day.

It can't be stressed enough just how important this advice is.

Could you stick them somewhere other than my back? I'm getting tired of that. I know, gout. How about whacking some pins into my big toe instead. Anything but my damn back.....

Last night I managed to glue up the lower doors, so this is what greeted me this afternoon when I got out to the workshop for a couple of hours: I had also glued up some inch oak boards to make 3 shelves. This was one solid board, but seriously cupped, so I ripped it at the high/ low point...

No problem at all. It's done all the time.