Woodworks

Turns out the rain was freezing so pretty treacherous on the roads down here this morning

Very cold last night. Wake to a dusting of the white stuff and now it's raining and only a fraction above freezing.

Keep an eye out for a SH Elu. I have a 1/4" and 1/2" and they have been truly superb. Both 25 years old and only thing they ever need is a change of bearings every 10 years. Think Dewalt bought Elu so their models are probably based on them. For windows and doors I would go for a well powered 1/2" model

Not looking so cold now Jon. Maybe a bit chilly but nothing more than that down here in the south west.

If you want better levels of protection for your doors than an oil would offer try Sikens. Sadly none of the stains are very natural looking but the protection it offers is the best I have found. It came out tops in yachting mag test.

Have often ogled at the tools on there but never actually ordered so good to here they offer good service.

Haha maybe. To be honest I never use the ebony handled one. It cost me £50 some years back and the steel is very hard but brittle. So easy the chip the blade when cleaning out a mortice. The paring chisel on the other hand is probably my favorite workshop tool and was about £30 25 years back. I think the Japanese tataki you have gone for will be great

Not sure the Met office have made any wild claims. On the whole I think they are pretty good but the press on the other hand

Really wild out tonight. Gust in Plymouth over 70mph and torrential rain. All calm with a bit of snow this morning. Gotta love the British climate

Should up your log sales

Just a slightly slushy cover for us but just up the road there was a nice couple of inches. Bet Matt had a fair bit up at Princetown.

Great pictures and beautiful surroundings Sam We had a bit of the old white stuff but nothing like that. Still enough to see a written off car and milk float in the ditch on my short trip to work. Seriously some drivers

So many times in the last two years there has been talk of some nice cold easterly air but it has yet to materialise. Fingers crossed this one comes off

Didn't work for that Jon. 10 pages of google searches on big butts and no Arbtalk links

Would rather not Just some innocent googling on any wood subject often brings you back to here. Steve seems V good at getting Arbtalk stuff high up on the searches

Nice little video with a map showing where snow is expected this week [ame] [/ame]

Snow forcast here on and off for the rest of the week! Will believe it when it happens mind.

Either that or he has taken a funny turn

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Good thinking

Glad you can make it all out. Can Email you pics if it would help. It seems most meters don't come with them. But surprising amount of variation from species to species.

Hope you can make out these tables.

That's great delabodge One serious lath you have there!

Think there were some really nice ones in the raffle. Here http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arbtalk-christmas-charity-raffle-2014/82221-member-donations.html

The surface water has probably not made a great deal of difference to the overall dryness of the board but I would not start working it yet. If I have the time this is how I like to deal with converting boards to furniture. Ideally the workshops RH should be close to the domestic environment. 1. Bring whole boards into workshop and leave for as long as possible with air able to circulate all around 2. Rough cut out components oversize and plane close to final thickness. 3. Leave components in stick for at least a week and again longer if possible. In stick is thin battens of which mine are 20mmx20mm placed between each board. 4. Finally cut and plane to final sizes. This is still not really the end of it as wood will continue to expand and shrink across it's width for ever with changing RH. The design needs to take into account this movement and there are many ways to do this. This all in the ideal world with lots of time but realise it don't always work like that