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I recently liberated some old planks from the loft of my mum's house when I was adding insulation and a floor for storage. I remember putting these planks there as temporary walk space, oh maybe three decades or more ago. I finally decided to use them to make a puppet theatre for my...

Told to help myself to some offcuts (mostly softwood) for firewood, I found some 2 by 3 inch pieces of what I assumed was iroko. However, on planing a piece I wonder if it is, in fact, oak. It is all rift sawn. Any comments?

I just took down an old apple tree for a neighbour across the road. It wasn't a huge tree but it had reached the end of it's productive life. So, now I have quite a bit of kindling from the branches and a few logs. Max diameter is about 25cm. I have the ends sealed with wax and I plan to slice...

I'm thinking of resurfacing my old wooden workbench with a sheet of 25mm plywood. The existing surface is neither flat or smooth. I can try to flatten it a bit but I doubt I'd ever get it as flat as the ply. Obviously I want to avoid bounce when I use a chisel and mallet, so the contact between...