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I think live edge and durable are not often found in combination. Not only is sapwood less durable itself, but at least some of the woodboring insects need the bark on to be able to deposit eggs, so the live edge is more likely to suffer. I don't know about the sapwood of sweet chestnut...

I forgot from my comments on Bedec MSP to agree with whoever said it was thin - almost a bit translucent. If Dulux once should be Dulux never, this should definitely be Bedec Thrice.

I used the Bedec MSP, on Mike's frequently given recommendation, for our bedroom widow frames, skirtings and door. Just last month in fact. Plus points - it is greatly better than the water based acrylic paints I've used before, Wickes home brand and Crown. It is very white. Perhaps too...

C = (A - 10cm) / cos(40) E = (A - 10cm) * tan(40) + 10cm. C~= 70.5 E ~= 55.3 I think ...

This is frequently covered in Mortise and Tenon magazine. Non show faces are only finished by people with excess time on their hands. Moreover, it is very wasteful of wood, if finishing it properly means it winds up 1/8" thinner. It doesn't even matter for table aprons, for example, if the...

Piped music - Ah, thinking of a different sort of piped. Bagpipes. Sometimes mistaken for a musical instrument, whereas they are in fact a weapon of war like the Celtic Carnyx, intended to make the enemy run for their lives. Actually, this is quite unlike me. I used to love "world music" -...

Hey, I quite enjoy a bit of Psarantonis myself. And Daemonia Nymphe ... nLuiAibzTiM But they do live in London. But really, the problem with Greek mountain music is that it continues until 4am. If you're lucky ...

Gosh what grumpy old men we have become. What is great, and what is unbearable is all (with a few exceptuons !) personal taste. A bar without background music can be strangely uncomfortable and awkward. And I don't want light classical, or other Musak. I personally put Jazz in the...

So sorry to hear that. Bit scary too, a young person (well, by our standards) with no other issues. Let's hope this thread doesn't get too busy.

Fair enough. Excellent. Stopped what I was doing for that. The Irish pipes are so much more civilized than their weaponised Scottish cousins. Quite like a bit of Davey Spillane too.

Quite a nice bit of nostalgia there with Gypsy - I saw Suzanne Vega at the NEC in 1987(?) , Solitude Standing tour. Long ago ! But we are drifting rather from artists performing in lockdown from their homes, which was the original topic.

Interestingly, over at Wimpole we had some walnut cut from a tree for safety reasons. On cutting it up, the creamy sapwood was fine, but the dark heartwood was so rotten it was easy to poke it out and end up with a tube ! So much for the heartwood being durable.

Quite a few people out there doing their bit to make life a bit more bearable. There have been a few performances for the globalcitizen / WHO #togetherathome series, most are available on YouTube, kicked off with Chris Martin and included my favourite, Amy Lee O:) . There's this - One World...

Yes, very neat. And I like the contrasting wood colours. You like living dangerously though, with those wedged tenons so near to the end ? Did you leave a horn and saw it off after glue up, or just tap them in very carefully ?

That is, presuming you believe you have not sleepwalked into giving up most of that privacy long ago to Google, Facebook, etc etc.

The result looks good, worth the trials and tribulations. Thanks for sharing - especially for being honest enough to show the mistakes and fixes, so much more useful than just pretending everything went swimmingly !

Looking at that last set of photos, if you put a sideways pressure on the top of the table, the top of the dovetail serves as a wedge trying to split the top of the leg.

Wide pins and narrow tails is opposite to usual fashion ? Especially real show-off dovetails with tiny pins :wink: I was wondering if you'd meant them to be the other way around.

I would disagree. Secret mitred dovetails aren't for showing off - they are secret, after all. They are for you to be quietly smug about whilst no-one else knows they are there, nor why your furniture stays together ! :D Showing off is better achieved with nice, wide boards connected by a...

I've done them a few times. First go was when I first read about them when doing O-level woodwork. Got to give it a go. I made a pair of book shelves for my room, from oak boards 7" x 3/4". A horizontal shelf of course, joined by secret mitred dovetails to an upright bit at each end to serve...