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Gramophone, green baize ... my word, that takes me back. My mum had this "radiogram" thing, that had a green baize lined record cabinet on one side and a cabinet that opened to reveal a turntable on the other, with a glowing radio tuning dial under it. The whole thing was finished in a shiny...

Yes, my son's school not only went ahead with the half term ski trip to Northern Italy, but later took the Latin and Classics classes to Rome, even though sites like the Colloseum and Pompeii were already closed. But the UK government had not yet advised against travel to Italy, so the...

A bit of an aside, I have personally met a man who survived the bombing of Nagasaki by sheltering under his desk. OK, if you were close to the blast, you and the desk are done for. But on the fringes, the building you're in might kill you rather than heat or radiation. So sometimes rather...

I was half tongue in cheek. I don't think I suggested we should be paid to post, others took what I said and built on it. But the adage that if you're not paying for it, it's because you are the product is more true of social media like FB - you don't pay because their business is not providing...

Indeed. Though we provide the content that attracts the ad revenue, it pays for the service. Mutually beneficial, I guess. What I don't know is how much UKW costs (thougb I have a very good idea how much a slightly smaller forum costs because I pay the bill for one) or how much the ad revenue...

We aren't getting so much for free. As they say, if you aren't paying, it's because you are the product. We provide the content, that attracts the viewers to the adverts. Without our posts, no advertising revenue. And I block them rather than ignore them because they are not just distracting...

I offered to chip in if we could not have the ads. Hey ho, Adblock plus it is.

I think you are right. We alcoholics have been happily boozing at home all along :D That pub in Phil's picture is a sad scene. It is the worst thing, when out on a long walk or bike ride, to see the letters "PH" on the OS map, then to arrive at a place looking like that. So disappointing.

I had noticed you had quite a taper on the legs. Why didn't I realise what you'd done ? I was looking at one of the earlier photos thinking that together, the taper and the splay looked a bit more than I would like - I was surprised when you said it was only 3 degrees. I think it must have...

Nicely done =D> A couple of questions - how did you loose / hide the ugly dowels in the top of the legs, as your new aprons are shallower ? And - forgive me if I'm being dense - why would drawer slips make the drawer 3mm shallower ? Can't you just put the rebate in the bottom the other way...

Which is interesting; one of the approaches to making a really snug drawer (see, heading back on topic) that I've seen recommended is to make the front fit precisely, then make the sides out of slightly oversized (thickness wise) stock, then plane the sides of the finished drawer down to match...

Hah - my first guess was right, shouldn't have got distracted with veneers. It is amazing, given the not exactly straight grain, that the lost thickness of a tablesaw kerf and planing up both faces is so inconspicuous. I'm waiting to see what you did about the ugly dowels in the legs...

Agreed a slight "flare" on the drawer front would help. But we can see pictures of the drawer, and there doesn't look to me to be an appreciable angle on the ends of the front, it looks pretty square. Ok then, take a thin veneer off the rail, make the rail with what's left, the drawer with...

Copper pipe ferrules look 'orrible IMHO. But steel is normal on mortice chisels. IIRC Ray Iles advised not to fix brass ferrules by punching them - the split is usually through where it was punched. Ash less likely to split than beech ? One of the useful properties of ash is that it is easier...

I can't say I like the idea of veneer anyway, if you want invisible no scope for any edge treatment on the corners of the drawer or the apron, has to be a sharp 90 degree corner. Very exposed end grain of veneer on the ends of the drawers - any normal use and it will soon be damaged, certainly...

I would guess my first idea - rip off the top inch of the apron, crosscut the rest to create the drawer front then glue the apron pieces back together could be done with joins that would escape the attention of >90% of observers. But I'm drifting towards the veneer idea; slice off a veneer, saw...

When you say you "blew out the side" of the mortice - I presume you mean you split the piece of wood apart, rather than chiselled in such a squiffy way it came out the side, or that you chiseled all way through and left a messy exit hole ? You mention matching a groove - if you are making a...

I think this is fairly clear, if you lap on a flat surface, it can't end up concave, only if the pressure is absolutely perfectly distributed can it end up flat, in the real world it will end up convex to some degree. But on the other hand, a concave plane is awful to use - no cutting, adjust...

That was my first thought, but the alignment cross-grain matters more than along the grain, the only way to loose the necessary kerf gap above the drawer without moving the drawer up and creating quite a visible misalignment is if you also loose that kerf width all way across the front :?:

A long rip cut, couple of crosscuts and some careful glueing ?