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Glue it: .....or dovetail it: I'll get my coat........

Hi Gary and welcome. I think I've got a picture in my mind of what you're trying to achieve, but an actual picture, sketch, whatever, would help no end. The one thing I'll say is that there will be a way of achieving what you want to achieve, I'm sure.

No, but if we ever get to see what it looks like, I'm sure some will be tempted. ;)

You are now! :)

Got any photos?

No doubt the digitally challenged farmers would do the same party trick as my dad: stick the stump of the amputated finger into a nostril, making it look as though he was reaching inside his cranium.

My goodness, what a lot of work. I love it (except the cat). Is the "spine" sappy oak, or is it a different timber?

To add to Custard's offerings, here is a sycamore and walnut blanket box I made some years back: The spalted sycamore was what turners call "punky", so just about completely inert. It hasn't moved a millimetre since.but the breadboard ends would allow it to if it wanted to.

I hope it's obvious that when drilling any sheet metal on a pillar drill, the work should be suitably restrained, not hand-held. My worst ever workshop injury was done drilling a quick hole in a bracket-shaped piece of steel, which of course grabbed, and flicked around with the drill. Clamp it...

Marbles work well, running in a coved track.

And then there's the people who saw their own hands off as part of an insurance scam.

I'd be talking to them if they were within cooee of me. It sounds like an ideal way to run down towards retirement.

Clearly we should wrap ourselves in cotton wool (organic), and never go near the workshop again as it contains such hazards. We should also never cycle, drive, swim, go upstairs, or climb a ladder........ ......or we could get sensible, and read that formaldehyde is only a problem when we...

Yep, that's an unusual tooth arrangement......a rip with 10 TPI. It might be useful for thin panel work, maybe, but for proper ripping of inch boards, or thicker, then 4 to 7 TPI would be much more common.

I'm with you. I can't even watch Dr Who!

Finding cedar here is no issue at all. Thorogoods have miles of the stuff, and it's beautiful clear straight-grained stuff, quarter sawn. I will be doing a cedar strip project in the next year or two, but it won't be a canoe. Thus I'm watching with interest, particularly the fibreglassing and...

Done properly, breadboard ends don't cause this problem. The issue is they're often not done properly. They should only be fixed in the middle. The outside boards should have a dry joint, and an elongated hole for the pegs. Then they work a treat.

I'm afraid your post is more anecdote than information. The temporary construction thing is irrelevant, and whether or not Planning Permission is required does not depend on volume, but on height and relationship to boundary, and on area in relationship to the ground around the original...

The main online supplier, Rubber4Roofs, has been getting pretty pricey recently, I've noticed. I can now buy EPDM an awful lot cheaper at my local Builder's Merchant (Ridgeons/ Huws Gray).....like 60% of the price. The plastic edge trim in most instances isn't necessary, and it can sometimes...

Don't take any notice of anyone who says you're supposed to or not supposed to do something. There are multiple ways of doing every single woodworking-related task, and you'll find people who back (vehemently sometimes) each and every one of them. I hone the whole bevel of my plane blade, every...