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I've just added a mortise and tenon calculator to blocklayer.com some of you may find useful. It's pretty basic, but might help in visualizing the layout of the joint, with scaled (and full scale) animated diagrams. You can select between a single centred tenon, 2 tenons horizontally and 2...

I've just put up a new Segmented Turning calculator on blocklayer.com some of you may find helpful. https://www.blocklayer.com/woodturning-segmentseng.aspx It just works out the geometry for the segments, with visual animated diagrams so you can see what you end up with. I'm not a wood turner...

I've just added a Kerf Spacing Calculator to blocklayer.com, that some of you may find useful. It works out the geometric spacing of the cuts so when bent, the inside edges of the cuts join to create the curve. The depth of the cuts (and remaining wood thickness for the bend) can't be calculated...

You can use your iPhone as a hand tool to set a bevel gauge from the calculated rafter cut angle results and diagrams from this roof calculator. http://blocklayer.mobi/roofeng.aspx Heres a demo video http://blocklayer.mobi/Video-Roof.aspx

I just added headroom calculations to the stair calculator at http://www.blocklayer.com/Stairs/StairsEng.aspx You need to check the 'Show Headroom' box for it to draw the headroom measurement. Is this set up ok for the way you do it in the UK? And what is the minimum headroom and min/max rise...

Hi I wrote a web application that generates dovetail templates here http://www.blocklayer.com/Woodjoints/DovetailEng.aspx and now I've had a go at a twisted dovetail template generator, but as I'm away from home, (and a blocklayer), with no wood or tools, there's no way I can test it to see if...

If you've done a few years hacking wood to bits, and you think maybe it's time to try somthing more suited to your skill level, then try this Blocklayers aptitude test, and see how you go http://www.blocklayer.com/AptitudeTest.aspx

Hi I have written (free) online stair and roof calculators you may find useful. They draw a plan of the stairs and roof, so you can see the layout Stairs http://www.blocklayer.com/Stairs/StairsEng.aspx Roof http://www.blocklayer.com/Roof/RoofEng.aspx There is also a dovetail template generator...