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Looking at the image you posted below my thoughts turned immediately to how a spindle moulder plus a rebate block might be the ideal...

Almost certainly that, the essentially trapezoid and thick zebrano pieces being wetter when the item was made, then drying out with the...

I see now. Thanks for the better picture. In truth it still seems the catches are sort of redundant or not needed, but I can understand...

Nowadays I sometimes take on part-time and short term teaching of carpentry/joinery apprentices at FE colleges. My experience is that...

I can't argue with the significantly higher level of knowledge and demonstrable practical ability required of those C&G learners back in...

To be honest, I don't understand your question. I've lived in a few flats in, for example, Edinburgh, and the shutters simply folded...

Oh , for crying out loud folks. There have always been dumb idiots, and then there are idiots dumber than that sub group. Young people...

Over the years it's certainly been within my power "to talk them into safe practices" having taught hundreds of learning woodworkers...

I think what you're trying to say is something along the lines of the following old adage relating to injured machine users which goes...

I too am waiting, but I'll maybe just have to give up. Slainte.

Counter iron is a new one on me too, but I can see the logic. Back when I started in the 1960s (I was only a kid then) the terminology I...

Oh, that can make me positively moist with excitement, ha, ha. Slainte.

I forgive you, not for your original act of naughtiness, you understand, but for trying to buy my forgiveness and mollify me with a...

Moving on to a separate issue, those Faithfull planes always seem to be hit and miss when it comes to quality and usability, and in my...

You're being a very naughty boy making a provocative post like that. Slainte.