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Oxford's nice (I live thereabouts) and almost any of the college chapels or halls will be laden with interesting wood stuff provided the college in question isn't one of the newer ones. You'll want to pack a lunch though, as for merely the price of a kidney in Oxford you'll get a small sandwich...

Put two pieces of wood in the vice, their flat bottoms aligned in an attempt to plane the top sides to level. And they are perfectly flat. A delightful flat slope, at about 20 degrees. Beautiful!

I made a towel rack, which is more or less the first thing I've made since my last woodworking lesson in school about 20-odd years ago. Things I have learnt: Cutting mortises for the first time ever probably would have been easier if they weren't only 6ml wide. Can't help but feel that tenons...

Susbsequent googling reveals the stuff of nightmares; crab spiders lurk in flowers and ambush bees. Never leaving the house again.

Well I was going to really stretch my ability to cut two straight lines at an angle and put a little roof on, so hopefully the water will run off (one corner more than the other, because hahanostraightlines). So untreated is the way to go - thanks very much!

Morning all - new to woodworking, and it's amazing how finishing doesn't seem interesting until you need to know something about it! I'm planning on building a bee house for the garden - really just an open carcass that blocks of wood with holes drilled in can be placed in - and wondered if...