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My better half wants to double the height of a kitchen window, installing a single 2m x 1m window almost to floor level using a double glazed panel in a softwood timber frame as costs will be virtually nil if we can scrounge the glazing from the “please take” pile at our local UPVC workshop, I...

So, for carving, I like to lay out the pattern on the wood with a pen, usually a biro or roller-ball nib as the ink doesn’t soak into the timber. The problem with this is the roller ball needs constant refreshing on a bit of paper as the ink won’t flow properly. Anyone able to recommend a good...

Anyone know where I can source a self-coloured (black/grey) striker plate to receive a latch 60mm from the leading edge of the door frame?

It’s Friday evening and getting late, idle thoughts time. I thought I’d read up a bit on the “tulipwood” Hispano-Suiza and was surprised to find it was 1/8” mahogany strips riveted to stringers (https://silodrome.com/hispano-suiza-h6c-tulipwood-torpedo/ ) I wondered, if one were to build a...

Ok, so, studding. I have put up a few (literally, I have built four over the past 2 decades) . The framing out and door lining I understand but I normally don’t bother plastering over the plasterboards, just using lining paper as a quick fix. My better half has been known to change her mind...

There is a standing dead cherry tree near me, one large bough has been felled, showing some nice spalting. With potential for introducing mould, fungi and insects, I don’t really want to put this in my timber store to season, do I? Any advice on what to do? This includes don’t touch it with a...

Is oak a good choice of timber for bowls? I have a number of oak logs I got for carving owls and things. How suitable is it, is it food safe? I think I remember somewhere that the tanic acid is not good for storing perishables in? I mean, is there a market for bowls you shouldn't put fruit in?

My employer has taken a dim view of me attending a job interview and has scheduled an “informal chat with a third party HR Company to discuss the structure of the company going forward “ in other words the possibility of a severance deal. Whilst he appears to suggest this is just to explore our...

Assuming nothing like this is currently available on the market and I will have to make one, how would you mount a set of scraper blades to make something like this?

OK, so as winter moves in, my workshop is getting less and less attractive. maybe its time for a little bit of table-top wood-work. Anyone up for a jenga-block show-and-tell? I am thinking to make anything you fancy, you can add glue, paint and fastenings/hardware, Only rule is you can't add...

Once they were unheard of but now tinternet is full of them, and when I feel like there are no craftsmen left I visit http://sanomagic.world.coocan.jp/Lineup/english_sanomagicbikelineup.htm. Building a wood-framed bike is on my “one-day” list. Anyone built one?

I think there are a few carvers on here but I would like this thread to be broader than only being a gallery of new carvings, though that would be amazing. If you have found a carving in wood, plaster or stone, please post a photo here, or, if you know of a carving related thread on UKW you...

Rood Screen vaulting from St Savour’s Church, Dartmouth . Think they said late 15th century

There is, in France, a lake called Lac du Paladru which has several flooded sites that have been excavated by various archaeologists. Their finds include several crossbow fragments dated to 1040AD. The earliest known European crossbow remains by several centuries. These are the only drawings

One for the re-enactors perhaps. Can anyone point me to a blacksmith capable of forging 14th century crossbow bolt heads?

My son volunteers in a little museum and someone brought this in for identification. Beyond being a storage box, I got nothing. Any ideas?

I saved one end of a broken engineers No 5 vice. All I really wanted was the screw mechanism. Without a lathe or tap and dies, how do I make the threads for the receiver (don’t know the correct name, sorry)? I was thinking of epoxy gluing a series of washers angled across a channel in a...

I need some decent quality rabbit glue for.gluing horn to horn and wood to sinew. Anyone able to recommend a supplier/brand?

Please don’t shout at me. Twenty years ago we put every penny we had into reglazing our house in shiny plastic double glazing. When the fitter ripped out the upstairs back window he also accidentally ripped out the rotten lintel. More accurately it fell out as it was only held in by the...

I want to partition a bathroom. I need to use a pocket door as there is very limited space. I have hung plenty of doors and constructed stud partitions but never built a wall to house a pocket door. The wall will only be about 6inches deep. I have no idea how to proceed. It will be built...