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Nearly all of the cookies that I succeed in drying without cracking at the perimeter end up with small + shaped shrinkage cracks in the pith which I just fill with dust and CA glue. If it's any help I've had more success trying this with fast growing less dense wood like Alder etc with 3/8" plus between growth rings

And what do any of you make of this young guy.. ok , I can see that his dad's pushing him... but from watching him I can also see that that's irrelevant as he has music embedded in his soul. If you look you'll find a very talented kid, young man now ... but he's got it for real and I gotta ask .. how ?

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Aye, they're just playing a long game with us, todays gormless generation are absolutely laid bare naked to just about any form of manipulation.. and they know it 100%.. the chinks do !!

Hi and welcome, check out @Rough Hewn on the ' today's milling ' thread, he had the privilege of checking it out in advance and shared his experience on that thread, cheers.

I remember @roughhewn doing a preview on it as I'd guess you do as well.. so I'm sure you'll be delighted with it as he reckoned it was way more usable than the 880 , you'll need a bigger everything else now😁

Lucky bar steward, I'm still looking for an excuse👍 much envy !!

👍 They were smelting aluminium 2000 years ago when we [ the Scots ] were running about naked smeared with blue paint and they do have a space programme with a rover on the far side of the moon.. it's just that they know that we'll buy endless amounts of complete crap if they make it🙄 Say's more about us than them really !!

Apologies for the slight derail but it's closely related to what your trying to do in respect of preventing radial cracks. I've done this with thin cookies 3/4 to 1/2" or less with the intent of making end grain platters and as you say it's very much hit and miss, I've used Alder, Ash, Birch, Oak and Beech all with varying results, once they get bigger than about a dinner plate size it becomes less likely to succeed. One welcome and unexpected accident of doing this was that in slicing the cookies and discarding any that weren't to my satisfaction by chucking them to the side on damp grass I noticed that with one side damp and the other drying in the sun this encouraged dishing which relieved the stress very often without radial cracking, so I've experimented with this and tried to find ways to allow this to happen slowly. Now when I'm ringing up something I'll often take some thin-ish cookies in proportion to the size of the log and see if I can get them to dish rather than cracking radially with care I can get about a 2" dish in around a 12 - 14" cookie with best results being in the wettest wood which then sands into a very nice plate sized dish that when soaked through with Tung oil becomes a stable and durable piece of kitchen ware. In respect to your post I agree that oblique cuts will give you a better chance of avoiding your splitting problem.

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I would think so, I've been using Ethanol shield for 8+ years in all my small engines, many of which lie for a long time between use and have had no issues, including gas guzzling 2 stroke outboards which there's no way I could afford to run on Aspen. Some of my neighbours on the other hand, who are unable to grasp the concept find their carbs full of cottage cheese each spring😁 which I often have the pleasure of repairing😬

Cracking video, thanks. Quite a few of my neighbours houses have shingle roofs but up here in the north west mostly Cedar and sawn by the looks of them.

Excellent... I had the pleasure of seeing them many times in the Glasgow pub gig scene probably 25 + years ago where they played with a lot of different folk, they were good then and by feck they've not got worse👍

Had to google when it closed, June 1973.. I was nearly 17 but by then had been there quite a few times. it was pretty wild back then.. I can remember whole rows of seats collapsing when everyone used to stand on them and jump up and down. Also the balcony used to literally wobble up and down about a foot if everyone was stamping in unison. Was at some really great gigs in Green's and many more after it became the Apollo but I wasn't at the Who gig you mentioned although I'm sure I saw the James gang but I can't remember where or when.

I wonder if the battery will fit the 220.. looks like it might.

Yeah, I just recently bought ' best of the James gang 69 to 74 ' to replace the vinyl that I hadn't heard in decades, still very listenable 👍

Quite liked this..

AVG did the same to mine so I went Norton and all good, the annoying thing is that I've been told many times by IT savvy people that they're all a waste of money and they don't use them.. and then go on to explain why using words I've never heard of 😃 It's the only part of my life that I have no understanding or control of and I hate being helpless and dependent on others👎

Ok so I've seen others mentioning this subject before on youtube but as someone who's technically inept it quickly goes over my head and the thought of undoing something that I'm unable to put right has so far put me off trying to change anything. I have thought of buying a new laptop and starting completely from scratch, new online ID avoiding all the things you mention, I'm sure that with my introduction to the internet only about 12 years ago as an aging blundering fool I must have laid myself bare to countless scoundrels. So, for instance if you, with you're new setup are then sent a link to something on Google or youtube for instance, and you open it .. does this re-expose you to what you're trying to avoid ? Also do you still use online security ?, I use Norton but I've no idea or way of knowing if they are also involved in some sort of data collection / spying or if they are totally trustworthy... although I hope so. I've often thought about this in the context of passwords, obviously you keep them private but then your using them for banking and purchasing online so presumably Microsoft knows them ? I mean they're constantly offering to keep them safe for me. 😬

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I wonder how old these trees were typically ?

I was going to ' like ' your post but then though a reply would be more in keeping, i agree with all you said and sorry about your dad.

Very nice guitar music but watching that I could feel my fingertips wincing.. any lack of concentration and they'd be gone but he seems to be in control so I suppose it looks potentially worse than it is as does a lot of heavy machinery👍 It would be good for dispatching politicians tho😈

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