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Thanks for the further comments. I'll try it with the plane next time, Olly, but it must mean being pretty careful not to catch the adjoining bit of wood and taking a cross grain shaving off it. One other thing about the beech that I forgot to mention was that the 27mm 10 inch boards had...

Dennis, Thanks for your kind comments. The bookcase sits very firmly by the wall with a very slight backward tilt (if anything). I was prepared to put a couple of thin wedges under the front corners to increase stability because sometimes the carpet grippers put around the edge of a room can...

Rich, Beech tends to be pretty straight grained and less knotty. With oak, I've found that the grain can switch direction when going up and down a board. Putting a piece through the planer in one direction will give you tearout in one place, reverse the board to see if it resolves the...

I must confess that I haven’t posted for a while and it’s not that I have been totally inactive but rather that I've been involved in other things as well. Enough excuses. I was asked by someone I knew to build a bookcase to fit a particular space on his landing. I’ve only done one commission...

Hi Stef, Looks like it's going to be an interesting project. I like to work in oak too and generally I use stuff imported from Croatia. What type have you got there - I'm no expert but it doesn't look like English? Cheers, Ted

Lovely wood and superb looking dovetails. It's going to be a really interesting looking piece. Keep us posted, Ted

Tony, A great piece of furniture and a great thread! Thanks for sharing it with us. Any questions I had have been covered :) It's funny, handles are such a personal thing and one has got to look at them in conjunction with the other furniture in the room as it can be the link between them...

Now that is something to be very proud of :D

Lovely looking work. It really goes to show that it's worthwhile letting an idea gestate before launching into it - not so easy to do when you're eager to get on with it! Ted

Thanks for that Gower. I find perseverance and slow working to be the key. With each project I have an aim to learn a new skill, as well. I'll be starting my next Morris Chair project in a week or two. It's just putting right a major mistake that was made in one I made about three or four...

David, that's a lovely piece of work. I really like the quatersawn oak - you've got some amazing boards there, much wider than I can get here in the South. Did you have to look very hard to get those? Eleven days - that's impressive too. Thanks for posting Ted

Thanks for the reply Bugbear. Your explanation is pretty clear. Nice porch by the way :) I also like the way you say the apprentices helped you. Nice one :D Ted

Christoph, that's an impressive job your doing there. It's must take a bit of effort to shift it around the garage when you work on different aspects of it. And progress looks swift too. Love the light you have in the shop as well. Ted

I really am fresh to doing this by hand and by fresh I mean the only inkling I have is from Philly's video. Just a couple of further questions though. Alan and Roy, from what you've described am I right in thinking that your methods do not result in a flat face all around the edge for sliding...

Stunning boxes and detail, Martin. You have amazing skill and patience to work to such tolerances in wood. It took me a while to find the "mishap" even after you mentioned it! Ted