Recent content by Rustybin

If it makes you feel any better, an awful lot of that will be reaction wood and twist like a devil when dried. It could save you a lot of time not having it.

That reminds me of a table / landscape / diorama thing that my dad made for me to run matchbox cars around when I was less than five years old. I am forty nine now and still remember it and think of hium. I promise you your kids will always remember the love that making something like this for...

http://www.easycomposites.co.uk/#!/resi ... resin.html Recommend the resin and the company. There is also a very helpful video tutorial on there which helps explain the two stage drying process. The main advice I would give from personal experience is to be careful filling holes that you think...

With butterfly joints I tend to cut them out using a saw and tidy up with a chisel wider than the butterfly is deep but they are rarely more than 3/4" deep. These bench legs are 3" wide so I thought something less testing of my chisel skills would be useful. I must admit I have never been...

Thanks chaps. I suspected there was a proper thing(s) for the job but wondered if I had just had a failure to think of a way of using more basic tooling.

My bad. It's an angle rather than a bend. The back of the bench is inclined i.e. the leg is vertical to the seat base and then inclined back for the bench back. Though now I think about it smoothing it into a curve could be quite nice aesthetically.

I am in the process of building a bench with a dog leg back leg. My plan for flattening the backs of the legs is to use a milling bit in a router but I am intrigued as to how one would do this with hand tools. I am sure it must be a common problem but I don't recall seeing it solved and Google...

One more nomination: Sweet Chestnut, as durable as oak, lighter, easier to work, native, generally cheaper than oak per cube and with less sapwood. A much under rated wood in my humble. With regard to glues, this seems like a good opportunity to practice some draw-bore joints and forget the...

A bit of a thread resurrection... I have been doing a bit of work trying to remove the sticker stains from sycamore using bleach and the finding have been that domestic bleach treatment gets rid of the sticker stain but as mentioned above also turns the wood pink, not initially but once you...