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The veneering was 'awkward' as I wasn't sure how to go about it, so I sliced up the squared branch on the bandsaw into roughly 2mm thick bits. Before each slice was taken, the material was shot square on the shooting board so at least I had one flat surface per slice. These were then made into...

In my limited experience, a MS is the last place I'd go - Rob

All so called 'gurus' have their pros n'cons Jacob and none of them is perfik although Sir David of Charlesworth's are a good for dozing off while you're watching his clips. RC is one of those 'gurus' who you either love or hate but his techniques are excellent (mostly). Both though, produce top...

There is much absolute and dangerous rubbish on UToob, but two very good, top drawer exponents are the late David Charlesworth and the huge series of clips from Rob Cosman in Canada. I spent much of yesterday acquainting myself with his drawer making series which is excellent - Rob

A small box using Laburnum 'oyster' veneers, which was very tricky to do and nearly became bandsaw fodder on more than one occasion: Lot's of elementary 'skool boy' errors as I'd never done this sort of veneering before. Holly is great to work but is difficult to keep clean and...

That's not my experience in any way shape or form. Provided it's air dried, elm planes beautifully and you can do almost anything with it. This is a little A&C sort of cabinet thing that I made years ago: ...in solid elm with burr elm drawer fronts and a solid panelled elm back; stand also...

I frequent various online establishments Ian:ROFLMAO: I should have mentioned of course that old Victorian mahogany is much superior to the modern tat:ROFLMAO: - Rob

Agree about Wenge....evil stuff; I used it once and never again. A few years ago I bought some kilned American Ash from Yandles which was pretty cheap considering the boards were all clean, with hardly any defects, but it was kilned to within an inch of it's life and just about the most...

The Carlsberg, Heineken, Czinano ones and a few other ads were brilliant. My all time favourite has to be the Carlsberg 'Dam Busters' one! - Rob

W&A in the Lake District is a great school providing you can find the workshop! When I visited some years ago there was some decent work being produced by the students but if you want to consider the very best school in the UK you can't go far wrong with the Barnsley 'shop - Rob

Those two schools have since closed - Rob

Went there a few years ago. Most if not all the wood was freshly cut and green; moreover it had been left out in the blazing sun or/and flat the grass. Never going again; complete waste of time, effort and money - Rob

Most timbers are great to use for any variety of decent cabinetry, provided they're air dried, so oak, ash, elm walnut etc are all excellent. It's when you get hold of a bit of kiln dried stuff that's had all the life sucked out of it do things go TU very quickly. Many foreign/exotic timbers...

My now very grown up No.1 son was a huge Trekie back in the day! I just need to unscrew that rail, hoik out the light(s) as required as well as all the other stuff and the bench well and the ply bases lift out in two parts - Rob

Jacob is bang on the money, though for a different reason to me. A bench well is absolutely essential on any half-respectable bench: Mine accumulates a vast amount of clutter, mainly bits of wood that might be useful, but it's all to do with the current job. If it's in the bench well, it's...

I've had both the Pro-Edge and an original green Tormek and now use a T7 with a coarse diamond wheel. The Pro-Edge and it's Axminster clone are quick for re-grinding whereas the T7 is somewhat slower. However, belt or linnishers remove steel so rapidly there's a massive risk of burning or...

The rounded face on a Japanese geno hammer is also used for compressing the fibres if your joint, say a mortice n'tenon is too tight. Give both sides of the tenon a few taps and you'll find that it will then fit - Rob

Too much of a faff. Look at the clip I posted; if the fence is 'out of kilter', remove it, take a few shavings as shown to make it true again, tap it back in place and test. Takes less than a minute and you're back in business - Rob

Your garst is going to be even more flabbered when you see: ...how I machined the pine cores to size:p and it's not 'climb cutting' - Rob

There were a load of niggly things that went sort of pear shaped with this job, you know the sort of thing that happens when you're not quite 'in the zone' or concentrating quite as much as you need to so it nearly got fed through the bandsaw on more than one occasion! I was sorting out the...