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    Which do you guys prefer ?

    This won’t help Roger (sorry), but it may be of interest. Or not. And some of your grandmothers maybe sucking eggs. Who knows. I had to walk across the New Town yesterday, so took a mental note, and some photographs, of the front doors. Probably a sample size of a few hundred. This is...
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    Rare and Interesting Woodworking-related Books and Pamphlets

    I am intrigued by one of your copied plates. This one: Looks a bit like my main tower. How long have they been doing it that way, I wonder?
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    Window frames: neat paint seal on edge of glass

    Well, the best way is just to teach yourself to do it with a paint brush. I have more multi paned sash windows than you could shake a stick at (perhaps that should be a mahl stick), and use a 1 inch to 1 ½ inch brush for everything. For little jobs I sometimes use this: Tape takes for...
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    Sash window chain attachments

    Well, I can’t claim any specific knowledge about chains, but on corded sash windows I use one or other of these. Perhaps they could be adapted to work with chains, or, at least, the same idea employed. As an aside I have done all of my windows in the Borders with the crocodile grips...
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    Marking Gauge?

    For what it is worth (not very much, probably) I just use the old fashioned, and cheap, beech ones with the double pin on one side, single on the other. Why, I wonder, do they always seem to have amber/yellow fixing screws? To mimic the bone they once may have been made of? Or if I want a...
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    Holiday Toolchest

    Have you considered one of these as a fret/coping saw? I've a couple of these, and they work rather well for light stuff, within the limitations of the depth of the frame. The design also lets them slide down to a smaller size when the blade is removed. But on your past record, no doubt...
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    Calcutta Cup

    Mmmm. Well. Great match.
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    Timber secondary double glazing

    There was a thread on this about a year ago. This was my contribution. Re: Secondary glazing Postby Tiresias » 31 Jan 2022, 21:42 Not that I recommend this, but just to add grist to the mill. We have a very exposed property on a Scottish hillside. Current windows single glazed 1930s WRC (no...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Well, if we are going down memory lane. I don’t think I have posted this particular basket case before. If I have, accept my apologies. It would have been a couple of years ago. We have loads of sash windows at our place in the Borders, and I worked my way round them in a methodical fashion...
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    Christmas tradition

    And here is the pie in action. and we have more snow outside.
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    Christmas tradition

    How curious. Cooked one yesterday for our own Julbord. Pork shoulder mainly, flavoured with mace, thyme and cayenne.
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    The barbarians are at the gates

    I had to try very hard to avoid that. Example: No footsteps on the bonnet so they had to be tall enough to reach across the windscreen. At least two different typescripts. And that's enough Miss Marple from me. No real damage done, I suppose. But still.
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    The barbarians are at the gates

    I walked out with the hound at 8 this morning. New Town. Someone had gone down the street, carefully scraping ‘F**k the rich’ on the ice on the windscreens of each car. Oh dear. Still at least they could spell, write and construct what might be, arguably, be called a sentence. The...
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    Workshop now officially too cold....

    I don’t have an outside workshop. But when my fingers stick to the metal handle of the front door I know it’s a bit brisk. This is what it was like on Saturday in the Borders. God bless the Landy. More snow Saturday night. So about 100mm in all now. We got back up to the ‘burgh on...
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    New table design & make project

    For what it is worth (and the style wouldn’t suit what I understand your son wants) in Edinburgh, for reasons of space, we use a Georgian breakfast table as our dining table. About 1050 by 1400. But, and this is the design point, a single central pedestal with sabre feet. No problems with...
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    New table design & make project

    Hmm. I think I’m with Mike. What do you mean by modern? There are too many words for styles. Modern, post-modern, ironic post-modern? Most people mean some scandi blondish stuff. But you probably don’t. Still, if you have hairpin legs it’ll speed up the build. Or Nipponese, I suppose...
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    Bats

    These are the ones we get. About 120mm long. I get to remove/rescue them from most of our neighbours’ properties. Very gently in a large towel – incredibly fragile creatures. But scary to old people. And as MikeG (and others) might remember I was brought up in Zambia. Fruit bats were...
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    Don't read if you are veganitarian

    Never done Koffmann’s version, but I’ve made this one. No pictures, I’m afraid. It’s less of a faff than you might think, but time consuming. And the trotters are very delicate when they first come out of the oven. One of those ones to do when you enjoy the procedure as much as the end...
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    Don't read if you are veganitarian

    I can’t imagine how anyone could consider these to be controversial if they found them in the ‘fridge. The pettitoes or crubeens were partly made into hong shao rou or yuan shou. The rest made into what Fergus Henderson calls trotter gear, and frozen. Wonderful in stews. The...
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    Don't read if you are veganitarian

    Just so. Hence my parenthetical comment. It’s the same in both editions I have though. Never found old Liz D particularly accurate as to quantities tbh. Do other bits of charcuterie fall within your sphere of interest? After a few wins, I have been politely asked not to enter again in the...
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