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This is this years evening class project, I knew that I wanted to do a cabinet on legs to store wine bottles in a Jim Krenov style and as usual I spent a lot of time looking for inspiration and was also armed with a couple of copies of F&C, one of which had a certain blokes cabinet in. As you...

Difficult one this but worth a question, can post up pics later if it helps. My wood man had/has a big stack of 4-5" massive boards that he acquired from a company who got them back in the 70s. He is selling them as mahogany, probably Brazilian and they do look very much like mahogany. However...

Hi All, a relatively simple project this one though it did take me a little while and the first set of shelves partially met the bandsaw.... Not a full WIP this one, though I have documented it on a related forum, but you do get to see the pictures without all the waffle

You may or may not have heard on the news, but one of France's greatest cyclists and two times Le Tour winner Laurent Fignon lost his battle with cancer, aged only 50. Fignon was never my favourite when watching cycling in my tender years (I was a Lemond man), but he was a typical Frenchman who...

I'm oiling my latest project, which is made from quartersawn oak, I'm 4 coats in now and plan to go to 6. My thought was to borrow from some finishing by Kevin Ley I saw in F&C when he was doing one of his many elm projects, he was doing his cutting back with sandpaper lubricated with Daniish...

Like it says, how can you tell your American White Oak from English Oak or Euro Oak? Other than looking at what it says on the shelf at the timber yard :wink: And don't say that English is knottier either! I've been using quite a bit lately and I have quite a variety in terms of grain...

It must be, we had a plague of aphids in Leeds today and I fully expect it to rain frogs tomorrow. Granted the swarm wasn't as bad as the one I remember from my childhood in the 70s but there were a lot of the little swines that seemed to come from nowhere. I thought aphid numbers might be low...

I've had this box sitting around in component form for around 18 months now, it was supposed to be a dry run for one I finished 14 months ago :oops: Anyway got round to finishing it off recently, it's a dead simple english cherry leg, maple sides, american cherry top box with a ply bottom and...

I have a piece of flame maple for sale, it's a big piece 45x210x1700mm, though the width is an average as it's waney edged. Now for the big sell... this is essentially a large offcut (to me!) and is from the same boards that I did a TV stand in and am now doing a DVD tower. There are some...

I've been after a decent moisture meter for a while and like Ed had my eye on an Electrophysics one, until they stopped selling them... Now being a bit tight I didn't fancy paying 100 plus quid for a bells and whistles one, especially as I don't need it to be that accurate and it won't get used...

...my girlfriend! Got home tonight and she'd done a bit of a tidy round the house (very nice) and she kept saying have you seen the fridge? Finally had a look and expected to say, yes it looks lovely and clean, but inside were 3 bottles of beer. Freakin sweet

Right then, this is my evening class project for the year and I've decided to do a chair, Gustav Stickley's interpretation of a William Morris recliner chair to be precise. I've not built a chair before and I like the specific look of the Stickley so I decided to get some plans to follow, a...

Is it just me, or is setting up the router all out of proportion timewise to the amount time you actually spend routing. Particularly with the router table like tonight, spent best part of 2 hours in the garage and around two thirds of the time taken was setting the bleeder up. Though 2 of...

One of the current blogs on FWW has a link to a gallery (and some interesting accompanying info) that lists what they believe are the world's oldest trees - there's even one from the UK. Very interesting and there's some great old trees in there - not all what I was expecting, especially the...

Hi All, went to use the bandsaw today to carry on the tenon cutting job I had been doing on it last night. Turned it on and nothing, there wasn't the usual clunk (I assume a relay) when you hit the power and there was no resistance to the on switch. Tried all the possibilities like safety...

Decided to have a more comprehensive clear out of my old mags seeing as the shelf on the bookcase is beginning to bend. Bit of a mixed bag, usual rules apply, ie let me know if you want them via PM and they'll go on a first come basis - though to distribute them a little wider please don't bang...

Building a chair at the mo in QS oak and plan to fume it with ammonia before the final finish. Read up a fair amount on the process and it looks pretty straightforward, my question is has anyone done this and do you know a good place to get the ammonia from? Apparently you can use standard...

Hi All I have a few mags that I've done with and rather than go into the recycling bin I thought I'd offer them to the first taker. Usual routine, I'll cover postage costs as they're pretty small and make a small deposit in the karma bank. So, first couple are woody related: Living Woods -...

Nipped out into the garage yesterday evening to dimension and then cut some elm to make into a late planned xmas present. Was particularly cold so didn't want to hang about, set up the P/T for thicknessing, fired up the extractor then started up the P/T which thought about it and then died. Did...

Well, as it says, I have a Drayton Tempus 7 heating/hot water controller for sale, 20 quid delivered. The one very tiny bright light from having to shell out on a new boiler (apart from a warm house) is that as the new one has a built in timer, the on I bought about a year ago can be sold for a...