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The making to measure is made a lot easier by having already made a ladder back chair which is quite similar - same form for the back legs and the back slats of the ladder back are the same curve as the back rails of this chair. So I could get the "client" to sit in that one, and measure the...

I sneaked out yesterday to do a bit of chair building. I've not taken a WIP series of pictures this time, as the processes are much the same as I've shared with you before - froe, axe, drawknife, pole lathe etc, and I don't want to bore you. The difference here is the style of back; I'm making...

Thank you Santa ! Inside a nicely wrapped package I found a box fashioned from ply and masking tape, which looked promising. Here's what was inside: A very useful collection, some pencils and a rubber (I was struggling to find one only yersterday), a nicely turned scratch awl (Yew I think...

Logo looks like a Watt governor, like these: http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/ ... /shaw2.htm

Given the tradition of two man saws, it is not so surprising I think. I guess the two rear handles allow the plane to be used by one operator for lighter jobs ? I enjoyed the longer video of Swedish craft. They were not hanging about ! The dipping the tenons in the glue pot to assemble the...

That's a sane approach. A friend of mine making barbeques out of some took them out into the field, retreated to a safe distance and shot a hole through them with his rifle. Not very sane, but no explosions, which in context of what has been said above is quite surprising.

I know what Andy means. "Shock" is the word - I was wondering "Where do the electrodes go".

I think I'm right in saying that Robin Wood, chair of the Heritage Crafts Association, learned for himself how to turn (on a manual lathe) wooden bowls by studying the tools of the late George Lailey (1869–1958), the last professional bowl turner in the UK. So crafts can be ressurected. Mind...

Did you know that both plane making and saw making have been identified in a list of Critically endangered crafts by the Heritage Crafts Association ? What's more, there is even a sum of money to be awarded for continuing the crafts on their list. Mind you, it is a £1000 and there are 62...

I wrap my pipe in an old blanket for insulation. It is the heat, not the moisture which softens the wood. If the wood is kiln dried success is unlikely too.

This is a normal stage in an organisation going t**s up. The management know there is a problem. It is their problem, but they can't solve it. Of course, management are not going to do the decent thing and resign because they can't do their job. So they make an ill defined new post (because...

Facebook accounts can be "memorialized", which means they are marked as "in memory of", and don't get suggested as friends. I think it does need a bit of effort to do though, to prevent improper use. I have often pondered on what Facebook uses to generate its friend suggestions. Mostly...

Is that this Jeff Miller ? https://www.furnituremaking.com/ At a glance, I think his designs look more appealing !

It could be the camera angle, but that seat looks a good bit more than 9 degrees from the horizontal to me. In combination with fairly shallow hollowing of the seat, I'd expect to slide backwards in that. I would expect that the elderly would never get out again. But then again, as the colour...

I imagine that it is restricted to file types that the typical web browser has a native way of displaying ? I assume that's why PDF is not welcome either. I'd much prefer some rendered views to a CAD file my browser can't display. Nothing stops you putting a link to a file hosted in your own...

Ahh great. I do love your projects Andy. But ... I'm not sure your rhetorical question has a completely obvious answer. I can see the option you chose avoids jarring mismatch of the grain patterns at the join. It fits very much with advice I've seen in earlier thread (from Custard ?). But...

I moved off an E7 tariff with EON, at their suggestion, because our nighttime rate saving was not enough to cover the higher standing charges. Despite using dishwasher and bread maker overnight, and having electrical heating in a greenhouse for some of the year. But - BG. Whatever the...

Looking nice indeed. I think it has plenty enough stylistically in common with the original design to look matched. Legs splayed in both directions scare me a bit. I presume the splay here is enough that you can get away with the apron shoulders being angled in the one plane only. When is the...

Ahh. Roman metalworking. Natural History, Book XXXIV: The natural history of metals Even at this early date the, seeds of the great sharpening debate had already been sown.

Extra zero here I think. More like 100W or so. 1000W is a something like 20kcal per day. Even polar explorers don't lose half that. 100W is about the maximum sustained work output for a normal human. I imagine you can assume that the energy used by the heater, incandescent bulb, extractor and...