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A veneered top would make your problem go away

Nope

Some lateral movement on bearings is common/required. Properly applied bearing retainer is incredibly strong, I’ve destroyed things assembled with it (when they should have used thread retaining compound) There is not enough meat all around those bearings to accommodate a press fit without a...

Metal, lift it off the ground by a little bit and sit on concrete pads

Of course, who is impressed by a small manufacturer of bespoke cars owned by BMW?

Yep, you are definitely over thinking this. Bookcases often have back panels and need them as the shelves are floating. Fasten those shelves through the sides, make them 40mm thick and then they perform a very different function. Housing joints are nice, but a screwed butt joint is drawn into...

I’ll disagree with ajs on this one. I think this is very basic and very simple, you can even see the plugged screw joints (nothing wrong with that). You could get the boards cut to size at your timber merchant, build sand and stain this in a day as a beginner.

These discussions keep coming up. People don’t want to pay for quality anymore… Festool. Everything made in China is rubbish… iPhones. UK doesn’t make anything anymore… Rolls Royce. More examples are available if your strawman can be resuscitated.

If you want things to only be sourced, made and distributed in one country you will need to go back a bit in human history, 5,000 years should do it.

Caveat emptor <<< consumer rights act 2015

Have a go, really, woodwork is not nearly as hard as many make it look! It’s a bit like driving

Online marketplaces + patience They are not often listed so you have to wait and then move quick. The smaller ones hold value better than larger ones

Depends what you like, personally I think it’s ugly. What’s the desire for solid wood driven from? If you wanted you could make something similar from cheap pine furniture board with a saw, a drill and a plug cutter

It’s ok, it was clearly pine from the picture, I didn’t see the point in correcting the seller.

Bought a solid oak bed recently, lovely pine it was

A moisture meter tells you the moisture (approximately) where the meter is, it doesn’t say it’s uniform throughout. Rather like a thermometer tells you the temperature of a thermometer, not necessarily the thing you want to know. As it seems to happen to you a lot, maybe some of the...

“Stronger”… depends how you mean. I’m general, laminated materials are used as they resist defect propagation better. Your choice of material is interesting, good luck

Not sure that makes the point you want… it looks rubbish. Fine from a distance, up close appears to be made from scrap

True, but you can’t reason someone out of a position they were not reasoned into (look at some of their other posts). I’d have more chance of teaching my parent’s dog algebra

It’s the new version of “polite” I think.