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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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    Dividers for book shelves

    As a by the by, typical book shelf loading is ~11kg per 300 mm shelf length, roughly the same as 25 lbs per 12" (foot) length. This applies to 'standard' books, e.g., a mix of paperback novels and textbooks along with typical hardback novels and textbooks. Large format books, such as it seems...
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    Dividers for book shelves

    I'd do exactly the same, but add the ability to make the shelves adjustable with shelf pins, or similar, e.g., tonks. It would make the construction logical and simpler. As to the shelves, it's true that once set up they're rarely adjusted again, but it can happen, I've done so a few times, and...
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    Chairs - Done!

    Very nice, indeed. Slainte.
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    Solar Kiln, promising progress.

    It's good that they responded. The reply confirms what I suspected. Now that you know that you are able, if you so desire, to convert the readings from the dry basis to the wet basis. I've included some conversions in the wee table below. As you can see 25%MCdb = 20%MCwb %MCwb (Wet Basis) =...
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    Solar Kiln, promising progress.

    I suspect your moisture meter reads on the dry basis (db). I say that because it appears that the user guide doesn't specify that it reads on the wet basis, or can switch. I can't tell from the photos what brand you have, but it might be worth your while contacting the manufacturer or the...
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    Solar Kiln, promising progress.

    If that moisture meter is measuring on the dry basis that 26% MC you have is within about 0.2% of what can be labelled as Ready to Burn in compliance with the government legislation for the biomass fuel sector, i.e., the wood has to be ≤20% MC to be labelled as Ready to Burn. If you recall I...
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    Simple door

    If I remember correctly the main materials used for the construction were Douglas fir and birch(?) plywood for panels, seating and other bits plus a bit of show oak and brass hardware. It was forty plus years ago I had a role in the construction of these choir stalls, and I left that company for...
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    Simple door

    The trick with the spring clamps is you can simply hold the two laths together with your hands lengthening and shortening them whilst moving the laths around in the space until you find the shortest dimension. At that point the clamps are applied and the end of each lath is marked on to its...
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    Simple door

    Actually Roger, I was wrong, because there wasn't a forceful contributor, so I apologise for the potential mischaracterisation. However, it was Jacob who suggested a possible difference between rod, story stick and story pole but he wasn't at all dogmatic about it. It all came out in a thread by...
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    Simple door

    When I lived in the US I learnt that what Americans called a story stick is what I know as a rod. As far as I could tell they were essentially one and the same, along the same lines a rabbet (USA) and rebate (British), but then over at UKWorkshop maybe some years back now there were contributors...
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    Simple door

    Rods are still good practice in many circumstances, even though digital drafting can lead directly to machining wood using CNC technology frequently limiting the requirement for rods. But even now, there are many oddball shaped and sized things where rods have the edge over digital technology...
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    Level? In what Universe!

    That maybe falls into the 'Fits where it touches, which may not be many places, but where it touches, it fits' category. Slainte.
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    Solar Kiln, promising progress.

    Just in case you're not quite sure of the difference between the wet basis and dry basis methods for determining wood MC here is a link to a short blog post at Lost Art Press that appeared at about the same time as they republished Cut & Dried last year. Slainte.
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    Solar Kiln, promising progress.

    The major keys for drying wood are temperature, relative humidity (RH), and air movement. Because, Andy, your project is drying logs to burn you're not particulalrly concerned about drying faults such as splits, shakes, warp, case-hardening, etc. So, for you the main keys to quick'ish drying are...
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    What stripper?

    As Trevanion suggested the best stuff is almost certainly the dichloromethane as still available in Paramose. I can assure anyone that's reading it will soften acid catalysed lacquer as I've used it myself on this a few times, as well as other finishes such as oil based varnishm pre-cat, etc...
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    Lie Nielsen No. 60 1/2 Block Plane

    I don't fully understand how some secondhand items sell for a premium over a new item. For example, secondhand versions of my drivellings in my book on timber technology I've seen offered for sale at a higher price at, for example, here than they can buy the darned thing new directly from the...
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    Now for the Chairs

    I think you're right and it was just the way the chair and its cabriole leg was photographed. It does appear likely that there is a column of wood running all through if I'm offsetting the edge of the straight edge to the right correctly in your photo. I don't recall who or when I was taught...
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    Now for the Chairs

    Is it just the angle at which the photo was taken, or are those cabriole legs bandy looking? Bandiness in cabriole legs is usually the result of not leaving at least a slender column of wood (e.g. at least 4 - 5 mm round or square) running through the length of the leg, as illustrated in the...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    The table looks fine, and I'd say a very good job. A bit of green aniline dye added to the Van Dyke brown would have knocked the red back a bit: that doesn't seem obviously necessary to me but I'm, of course, only looking at a photo. Slainte.
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