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    Intelligent Drill Press .... how much?

    Nah. They're just having a laugh. Slainte.
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    Mark

    I think I can compete on the ugly factor because I remembered and found a picture of my whole range of marking knives. Look on and weep all who are jealous of my fine collection. Slainte. Top to bottom. 1 Marking knife - mahogany, hacksaw blade, string, PVA 2. Bird's beak knife, as previously...
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    Mark

    My top of the range bird's beak knife which is used for transferring the cut tails to the end grain of the pin board. As can be seen I spent much time (20 minutes, maybe) constructing this premium item utilising Cuban mahogany, a repurposed hacksaw blade, hairy string and PVA. I have a...
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    gate

    In truth I was being somewhat facetious ... even though beech is classified as non-durable meaning it typically rots out usually in less than five years: critically durability categorisation indicates longevity when the wood is in soil contact, and a gate isn't in soil contact so longer service...
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    gate

    I also strongly suspected beech. Assuming that's definitely what it is, therefore non-durable, Wallace might consider this gate build as a practice run for the replacement one, preferably in something durable (oak?), he'll need to make in a couple or so year's time, ha, ha. Slainte.
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    Workbench identification

    Looks very like a typical old style Ulmia bench. Here's another example. I have an Ulmia just like the ones I linked to which cost me, I think, something like US$800 thirty years ago during the ten years I lived in Texas. I think that style of bench is typically a traditional German or middle...
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    300 year old piece from Switzerland

    That can work well on good or whole old film finishes, e.g., shellac where the aim is to clean years of grime off and add a bit of sheen. The mix can be undesirable if the original finish was a non-film type such as wax, or the pre-existing film finish is damaged because then the linseed oil can...
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    Americans generally can't pronounce any town ending ...burgh the way it's spoken in British English, or perhaps primarily Scottish English, e.g., Edinburgh is generally sounded as either Edinbruh or Edinburg. Texans cannot enunciate squirrel; for Brits there's a slight rasp in the double r...
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    I suckedin a bit hard Accipter when I saw the column headers. I've got to admit that it riles me up a bit when I see the three other countries that make up Great Britain or the United KIngdom rather dismissed and excluded and somehow subsumed into a greater England. I guess I get that...
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    Hanging a door. Some finer points

    What you say is, in my experience, normal. I was instructed to do it that way when I was a trainee because 'It's always been done that way ... no idea why, really' was the way it was put to me. I personally can't think of a decent technical explanation, e.g., it's stronger that way. I suspect...
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    Hanging a door. Some finer points

    Projection hinges are an option for throwing a door clear of an architrave. A Parliament hinge can do similar. Of course you may not need such a hinge, but it's useful to know that's an option. I used Parliament hinges from time to time, especially on workshop doors to allow them to open fully...
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    Wedged M&Ts

    Regarding wedges. I suspect the method I use most often is because I'm a furniture maker. I widen the mortice leaving the inner few millimetres square. The reason for this is that the inner mortice length matches the tenon width, thus the tenoned part can't be caused to to drift left or right as...
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    Cigar humidor?

    Yes, constant, perhaps better described as trying to equalise humidity throughout the interior as much as possible. The holes should allow air within the humidor to circulate reasonably. There's a shallow hole bored front and back so that a finger from each hand can lift that tray out...
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    Cigar humidor?

    Here are a couple I made in the late 1990s. You can get hygrometers and humidifiers from Amazon, but there are specialist suppliers too. As you surmise basically a box, in this case of walnut and cherry dovetailed together. The lining and trays were made out of cedar of lebanon, left unfinished...
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    Resawing thick timbers...

    Evolution R255TBL+ saws are quite dinky really, at 1800 Watts (~2.4 HP in theory) and aimed at the site market. Has it got the balls and stability on its small table plus fence to handle deeping big lumps of wood? I'd say it would be doable in stages with caution and good additional...
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