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Super. I like the knights - the softer edges give a more modern look perhaps. A lot of work in that !

I really like this. I hope you can read the story from the enclosed note. Love to see an old tool brought back to life, and with some very locally sourced wooden parts too. A nice weight, heavier than my wooden mallets, without being so cumbersome. I look forward to giving it a go ! Thank...

If you're turning wood by leg power on a pole lathe, you want it to be green. Much easier. It will shrink maybe 5-10%, which you can allow for, or use - by assembling dried stretchers etc into green legs - to allow glue-free assembly. My not quite a set of green ash chairs [1 2 3 4] are all...

Yes, surely what you can see is just a haunch for alignment, and there is a dowel joint in there, or the chair would have collapsed by now ! Anyone know if the Veritas chair doctor kits are any use here ? Injectable glue with a syringe. The curve of that back looks really bad for you. I...

I presume it has lost its soft faces of plastic, rubber or coiled leather ?

I don't like those Veritas saws anyway. Ugly. Buy a proper old one, then you can pick one with a closed handle, sorted.

I knew you would have thought about it and have a good answer :wink: But as you say about the buttons, perhaps worth the explanation for anyone else following that design idea.

I suspect the original was never as pretty as the copy ... the wear groove - any clues as to whether that was all wear, as opposed to a design feature ? If it were for arrows, perhaps it could be an early "hollow" ? I don't suppose there was anything left of the iron. Some time ago I read...

Very nice looking result. The colours really come to life with the finish, and the legs somehow fall into place. A question about the top with the through legs. You must be very confident that top is not going to shrink or swell much ? Is there not a contradiction in using buttons to attach...

I wonder how much hysteresis the oven temperature control has. If the temperature cycles 200 - 250 - 300 - 250 - 200, a cake will not notice the difference between that and a constant 250, but the oxide colour probably reflects the peak temperature. Wildly speculating here, you understand !

Amazing, isn't it that we can design robotic probes to fly beyond our solar system, machines to heat a plasma hotter than the sun. Yet, a toilet seat that (a) stays up and (b) doesn't slide around, hmm, that's a tough one.

Liberon claim their boiled linseed oil is linseed oil treated by passing hot air through it, and the data sheet lists no drying agents. Not sure I'd want to trust something not explicity food grade though. I used Chestnut food safe oil, which is liquid paraffin. Depends what you want to do...

Now that, Phil, is smart thinking. It would also direct any "splash" back in the right direction. So maybe it isn't just me. I've contrived plastic bushes to keep things central before now, bit like the idea of those rubber cones. The bath was a nightmare, the taps come with an O-ring to seal...

This might be a silly question, but maybe someone here can shed some light ... Why, on seemingly all sanitary ware, are any holes made at least twice the size required ? Ceramic washbasins, plastic baths - the taps tails are as standard a size as you could wish for, 1/2" or 3/4" pipe threads...

The ash I've used for chairs, finished with Rustins Danish oil, starts out quite pale and eventually goes a biscuit like colour - think rich tea biscuits, nicer thought than stale urine ! Linseed is probably the most yellowing option, I avoid it for ash. Boxwood goes a very yellow colour. My...

Santa arrived but has been intercepted by my wife, so no clues available until Christmas day.

Me too. The strap handle is a nice interesting feature. The cross bits are a step too far and detract from the lines. I quite like the little pins though. Might even use two on a diagonal. Maybe.

There's one possible gotcha - it is necessary to make sure there is some flow, even when all the TRV's close, so that the pump doesn't get stalled. Possible ways of doing it include leaving one or more radiators without a TRV, but with manual valves that will never be fully closed. Often the...

It is common green woodworking practice to dry the spindles, then assemble with the legs green to allow the joints to tighten with drying. Whether there is a risk of splitting depends on how tightly you make them fit. The only times I have had splitting is immediately during assembly, not...

Ah yes, I see what you mean. I used the hacksaw trick too when I have cut teeth from scratch, easier to position because you can see what you're doing too !