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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Great. 8% is about what I'd expect in late autumn/winter for wood in most houses here in the UK, assuming there's reasonable insulation and similarly reasonable climate control. Generally internal furniture gains moisture as summer approaches and up to early autumn before starting to dry again...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    The table's looking good, and well done I say for being able to achieve what was required in the time frame. On a side note though, did you ever resolve the moisture content thing that was batted about at one point? Slainte.
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    How much to make these ?

    I wouldn't object. I do however have the original, also in PDF format, which uses both imperial and metric units, but one possible drawback, I suppose, is that it runs to 35 A4 pages. That's mainly because the images are larger as is the text which is 1-1/2 line spaced, also large before and...
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    How much to make these ?

    I too have a pricing system which I used to give to my BA (Hons) students when I taught Furniture Making and Design. It was also picked up and published by an American magazine a number of years back. The magazine version is more compact than my original and largely restricts itself to imperial...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    True, my misspeaking, so a wedge to loosen a wedge. You could screw the 'wedge loosener' to the table top's underside, I suppose. Slainte.
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    I must admit I hadn't appreciated that the space available was quite so limited. I suspect you'd get more wedge removals than you expect. I say that because in my experience of a fair number of tusk tenons on tables and workbenches that that shaping is generally pretty tough. It also helps that...
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    ukworkshop

    Which is how I've set myself up. I never see ads and I'm not, and never have been, a paid up member. I did get a recent message from Dovetail, who must be an administrator there offering some sort of enhanced pay for use deal that gets rid of ads. I, as usual, ignored it. Slainte.
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    The wedge to remove a wedge idea is built-in redundancy. All that's needed to remove the wedge that locks the tusk tenon is to tap up or hammer up the bottom small end of the locking wedge. Others would say that the shaped upper part of the wedge is designed specifically to assist its removal...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    I didn't mean to cause so much disruption to Mike's table build thread, so this really should be be my last input in this thread so that I don't become a complete pest. But, if you really want to find out more about the the biofuel sector go to the following links ... and that's just to begin...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Yes, the weight of the oven dry wood is the base line against which the moisture content is calculated. It's calculating wood MC on the 'dry basis' aka db. What I find rather incongruous is the the biofuel sector uses the wet weight of the wood as the base line known as the 'wet basis' or wb. I...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Determing wood MC using a microwave oven Slainte.
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    That's the kind of chart I was referring to, only I'd omitted to mention (because I'd forgotten) some of the factors such as temperature. One of my moisture meters had a similar chart, but I've lost it, and that's probably because the moisture meter it came with broke and I binned it, most...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Yellow staining in oak seems to have become more prevalent in recent years. Gard et al postulated that it is caused by "metabolization of tannic acid by the fungus Paecilomyces variotii." Koch and Skarvelis suggest “The fungus colonises the vessels of the wood reacting with the hydrolysable...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    All this is very interesting to me, that you get such low readings with your moisture meter, albeit a board or two from some of your older stock tested at above 10% MC. As Cabinetman mentioned some moisture meters come with a chart for making allowances for the structure of different wood...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Yes, that's another symptom, perhaps challenge being a better word, of very dry wood I could have mentioned, it's hardness which frequently makes it quite unpleasant to use. In oak, a hard hardwood anyway, that makes it doubly unpleasant. I know that carvers much prefer either air dried oak, or...
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    5% MC! That is very interesting. I've never heard of any timber processor deliberately drying timber to such a low MC. There are two main reasons for not doing so that I can think of: the first being cost, and the second being that wood so dry sometimes doesn't machine well, e.g., machining can...
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    Is a balancing veneer always required

    Som Hmm? I'm not entirely sure about that, though. Running the veneer horizontally to match a solid wood drawer front's grain direction I'd say was historically only somewhat more common than running it vertically. Whether horizontally or vertically orientated the drawer front would have been...
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    Is a balancing veneer always required

    Sorry AI, or AI if you prefer. Maybe we could rename AI (AI) as AyeEye so as to avoid inadvertantly being mean to you? Slainte.
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    Is a balancing veneer always required

    AI in my experience ain't wonderful as a source of woodworking knowledge: I've tested it from time to time and it quite often talks gibberish in this field and I suspect that's because it tends to pick up the verbal diarrhoea of limited knowledge or wrong knowledged woodworkers, both amateur and...
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    Cut & Dried - latest print run

    None at all I'm afraid, information, that is. Wood finishes in general have little or no effect on wood's dimension, even water borne finishes, and their only likely role on dimensional stability is almost certainly restricted to how effective any finish is at preventing the ingress and egress...
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