Recent content by chris13

It appears that Dalesbred may have relocated to Settle but still not far for you to travel. If Dalesbred don't do restorations there are a number of furniture restorers around Lancaster or Grange. PM me if you have trouble.

I am sorry to read that it is difficult to relocate your business in Wakefield. Is the availability of industrial premises in neighbouring towns such as Ossett, Dewsbury, Batley or Morley any better ? I think I might be tempted to describe your business in terms of production of musical...

I came across this graph in another forum which shows dimension changes and moisture content in poplar as humidity is cycled from about 45% to 75% every six hours. Moisture content (MC) follows humidity with a phase lag but the dimensional changes are in phase with moisture content. T is the...

That is a lovely instrument. I am a pianist besides an occasional cabinet maker so I spend a lot of time thinking about how my piano soundboard and its bridges are adjusting to humidity changes. I would imagine that the board would have been kiln dried to a pretty low moisture content before the...

Is not the direction of the annular rings important when making sound boards ? When loosing moisture annular rings will straighten and contraction is in the direction of the ring. Should not timber be quarter sawn for sound boards with the annular rings set perpendicular to the plane of the...

A physicist and amateur cabinet maker here ! I must admit that I despair at the amount of oil we are burning in vehicles and wish we still had a good rail network so much more could be transport by railways. When it comes to the new transport and energy technologies what I believe is not being...

It is not often that I use my cheap rechargable electric drill but when I needed it two days ago the plastic body had degraded and it was covered in a sticky residue. Today I successfully cleaned it up not with baking soda as recommended on one website (it was mostly ineffectual) nor with...