ScottyT

A quick-fire update on the planer, the end draws close. I now have the castings painted and mounted that carry the top tables and...

French oak is softer than English and faster growing die to it's latitude and climate. Straighter and fewer knots too.

I think I would be concerned with the off kilter weight after it's bandsawn close to the template. Must be an awkward thing. Maybe 2...

Is it me or is france the source for amazing bits of wood.

I'm pondering how that's going to be shaped but I'll wait for the next exciting installment.(must be with the spiNdle)

Yeah it’ll be the usual template on top of the stock and run round on the spindle. I’ll put the 4” block in but instead of the ring...

My understanding is that both France and Germany set out and grew forests as an agricultural crop, well maintained to grow tall clean...

Thanks Johnny. The size of the main beams off the top of my head are 5.1 long, 300 deep and 100 thick. The Oak is arriving from France...

more progress on the FM, it’s really starting to look like a planer again and my big pile of old cast iron is getting smaller and...

I think of a story stick as a rod with the lengths marked on it. A 2 dimension drawing particularly full sized is called a lofting (at...

In George Sturt's a wheelwrights shop, it describes how someone sets off to measure up for a well frame and roof (I think, it’s 50...

No worries about the swastika - the Nazis borrowed it but it was used in more benign circumstances for hundreds of years before. Just...

That’s the great thing with the rod Niall, it became apparent quickly the computer had a hard time spitting it out. Sections 1&4 are the...

If I were making such a bridge I would make the sides trussed just like iron bridges are. That way the top and bottom beams take the...

Not on this bridge as although it’s big for me on my own, it’s relatively tiny and no issue to get the timber in one piece. We have...