Recent content by Sgian Dubh

I think, but happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, that all the car hire companies will have only cars that are new enough to meet the various low emission zone requirements around the UK. My car, for instance, is a 2012 petrol 1.6 litre Ford Focus and this doesn't attract a charge for entering...

Screws into plugs or similar probably, and if the screw heads aren't covered by something like a supplemental aluminium door threshold, then the screws would be pocketed and the pocket pelleted. Yacht varnish would help. The existing finish is looking rather sad and needs renewing after good...

Unless there's evidence of hinges drifting away from the chiselled recess into which they are screwed what reason do you have to replace the existing screws with longer ones? My guess is that the most likely cause of binding, if it's not a hinge problem, is swelling of the door's bottom rail or...

No style in particular, but it sort of hints at vaguely Georgian up to early Victorian influences, i.e., roughly 1750 - 1850. At least that's the sort of UK centred type of reading: central/eastern Europeans might see it a bit differently. The piece could have been made in a factory or small...

After reading the posts from Cozzer and GuitardoctorW7, maybe I'm wrong, and some musicians do care about something other than the noise they can generate through their instruments, their amplifiers plus additional noise enhancing electronic gizmos ... and the cabinets that house them are...

Not a cat in hell's chance of being from that era. It's a common or garden mass produced telephone bench/table probably from somewhere between 1950 and 1975. Solid wood parts are beech (probably) faked up to mimic mahogany and the rest is man-made board with, again probably, a mahogany...

As I recall the only embellishment on the outside edges was slight rounding over to remove the arris and the outer corner where all three pieces met similarly softened. My memory may be playing tricks because it was close to fifty years back, but unobtrusive moulding of some sort would make...

I can understand where you're coming from thinking of that type of joint as a YouTube joint, but an alternative, and much older name is Showcase Joint. Decades ago I was tasked by my employer with repairing an old Victorian showcase, a museum's I think, that included damage to one of the corner...

Spotted that divot in your second photo in the sequence. Did wonder what had happened and why you hadn't made more effort to 'lose' it. I'd say that for future amp heads, whatever their purpose may be, just bang 'em together with some veneered chipboard, or similar. The darned things are going...

That's a tough ask of a finish for a piece that's going to receive endless abuse, and whatever you apply will inevitably get damaged along with dents and scrapes to the wood. Danish oil would be too soft, so discount that. An interior oil based varnish would be as good a choice as any other...

I appreciate the fact that you wanted to find a copy of my book. Many thanks, and yes Lee Valley are your nearest retailer. Slainte.

In preference I'd say stress or stresses rather than tension because tension, a stretching force, is just one form of stress, others being, for example, compression, shear, bending, torsion, and fatigue. I've no comment on the rest of your post which is good. Slainte.

Really? As valuable as that! I need to increase my hourly rate to compete with you. Slainte.

I've often found that kids of all ages, but especially teenagers, will usually enthusiastically, and often furtively or secretively, pursue activities that their parents, guardians, teachers, etc, try to prevent or discourage. That approach may be worth exploring. Slainte. PS. There may, or may...

Well, you seem to have some creep deformation going on there, a phenomenon studied by rheologists. Relatively small loads, which is basically what you have with what seems to be only those front to back crossbeams to carry, within the elastic limit of the 3.6m (wooden) beam has turned into...