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To some extent I both agree and disagree with Jacob's position. He said in post #28, "Basically Sawstop seems to be a big money-making rip-off based on scaremongering about accidents, particularly amongst the amateur and beginner fraternity" which I suspect is incorrect and where I rather...

Another source for a match might be Fiddes. It may be that you'd need to buy different finish colours and do some of your own custom mixing. I don't know if Fiddes can do a custom match for you. Slainte.

I've got to agree with you there because the longer this thread goes on the weirder or more off the wall it seems to get. In fact, that's the main reason I look in now, i.e., to see what fresh weirdness has developed since my last visit. Slainte.

Zebrano, radially sawn. Slainte.

I wouldn't bother unless it's a real bargain. Festool tend to be overhyped and overpriced. If all you need is an amateur level multitool, then for £48 this is more than good enough. Slainte.

In 3026 years life could be really good, or maybe really bad. Whatever (shrug of shoulders) ... it's bound to be 5050.

That pattern of bed fitting for attaching side rails to headboards and footboards I have only ever seen for sale in the USA, never in the UK where the nearest equivalent is the Noval K version, which is quite different and won't work as you show in your image. You might be able to use a...

B&Q do some, at varying widths including 750 mm. Or you could simply put a few tiles of some sort on the wall. That's what we have and it works fine. Slainte.

I suspect it's not a wind-up, but more along the lines of an unlikely to be achieved but probably harmless dream. At this forum woodlearner981082 didn't get the chorus of jeering naysayers mentioned in his quote above but I do rather wonder if the supportive commentary expressed here is merely...

Use a Ticking Stick methodology. Slainte.

The rounders I used were supplied by the guy I mentioned for a four or five day long course he ran at the college where I studied for my furniture making C&G qualifications nearly fifty years ago. I don't remember the teacher's name but I know he ran courses up and down the country and he took...

I don't believe I met him, so not a question specifically for me I'd say. However, the rounders look like ones I used some forty plus years ago that came from a guy whose name I forget, but he was based somewhere in Wales. The ones in the pictures certainly don't look unusual to me, but maybe...

Being that small I can't hazard a decent guess. Powder post beetle grub exit holes are usually about 1.5 mm diameter, so even that's a rather unlikely candidate. Sorry I can't help. Slainte.

Common furniture beetle exit holes are generally 2 - 3 mm in diameter. Those look about the right size, so that's a possibility. As Sideways says, seeing exit holes indicating adults have left doesn't mean there aren't more grubs from later egg laying activity burrowing away inside. Slainte.

It's no good trying to shoehorn Nick_'s wood into anything that resembles an oak of any kind. The stuff in post #1 is not an oak, and nor is the stuff in the second set of images in post #14. Those are images of ash, which may be either European or North American, impossible to tell from the...

Every now and then at various timber merchants I've come across thin boards of various wood species usually 10 - 15 mm thick and typically described and sold as drawer box material. Usually it was good quality hardwood such as oak, ash, walnut, etc. Further enquiries generally revealed that the...

It's true that sapwood has the most nutrients that the grubs of insects such as common furniture beetle, powder post beetle, and so on like to devour. However, other conditions need to be right for the grubs to be interested, such as a high enough wood moisture content. Common furniture beetle...

Technically, there's no good reason to not use the sapwood for the purpose you describe, i.e., drawer bottoms. However, Cedar of Lebanon is used for that purpose primarily for the cedarwood oil fragrance which is said to have insect repellent properties therefore its use in clothes drawers. It's...

I went to a cafe the other day, ordered my food and sat at a table already occupied by another guy. We got chatting and I discovered he was called Gary Kasparov. My food arrived and I asked Gary to pass me the salt and pepper. I still can't quite understand why it took him nearly twenty two...

The only way the stain can be removed is to take away enough wood to get below the staining, and that depends how deep the stain is... it might be shallow or deep. An alternative would be an A/B bleach, but that process takes you down a different set of technical challenges post the bleaching...