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I suspected that was what you meant Ian. However, in my defence the table did have to fit into a limited space with a radiator in the way in one direction and it had to allow a door to swing open, as...

Interesting comment Ian. I'm not really sure what you mean by "undernourished", but I think I can infer your meaning. Of, course, there are more images available-- there's a link in my first post, so...

I'm pleased it piqued your interest. In part I was exploring the general form to see if it might be adaptable for a larger version, perhaps even a dining table. For a dining table it would need a...

I don't think there is much speculation required really because cabinetmakers in the 1700s used similar techniques to those used now although the mating edges would have been prepared entirely with...

A wee fun job I did recently is this side table. No WIP photos I'm afraid, but there's a few snaps of the end result here, and a bit of blether about using ferrous sulphate to make harewood, or to...

Pinholes tend to be more of a problem when spraying onto coarse textured timbers rather than fine grained. Typically, if I'm spraying lacquer on something coarse textured I use one of two approaches....

Everyone has their own way of generating estimates or quotations for clients. I've seen or heard many methods discussed over the years, well, decades really, from wild guesstimating, to back of a fag...

Interesting to see that photograph Ian, which shows not much differentiation in size between pins and tails. I noticed that they cut right through the centre of a tail to split the lid off. It's not...

There certainly are several ways to approach the task. Your investigations and methods of dovetailing are not 'wrong'. True, they might be considered a bit nitpicking, slow and fiddly for people that...

Eddie, it's just the sizes of the pins and tails that caught my eye as being very 'Egyptian'. As you probably are aware, most images of Egyptian dovetails seem to indicate the convention for relative...

Ah, Eddie, Egyptian style dovetails. I haven't seen that pattern on a regular basis since about 5,000 years ago, ha, ha. Slainte.

I've never worked out from where this "London" dovetail nomenclature emerged. As you know I live and work in the UK, and I've never heard the term used in any furniture workshop, gallery, museum,...

I think what Wouldwood is suggesting Derek is that the skew chisels that seem to have become popular over the last decade or two aren't really necessary for cleaning out the socket corners next to...

Derek, I suspect your figure of 6-1/2 hours per drawer may have come from an estimating system I've devised and written about. If that's the case the time allowed in that estimating process does not...

No, not a jig, but probably a fairly standard routing technique. Illustrated here it's being used to clear waste between both pins and tails in through dovetails, but essentially the same technique...

occam, one economical joint to fashion that does work for drawer construction is a simple tongue and housing at the corners. Cut the housings in the drawer sides and the tongues on the ends of the...

Graeme, this is the effect of reversing grain and the way light reflects and refracts due to the different grain direction of the parts. It's commonly seen in the situation you described. Also it's...

I've lurked extremely intermittently for maybe four or five years, Ian. I don't know how long this forum's been running so my lurking estimate could be fanciful. It seems like I knew about this board...

Harry, take a look at this old article of mine for some information on traditional drawer construction. There's also a description of making a set of graduated drawers for contemporary work using...

Now that I've actually registered and can post here, Wild Dingo, I'll offer up my technique for doing this kind of cut. I'll admit to having ocassionally lurked in this forum for about five years on...

Undertaking a ripping operation as I do with push sticks of that pattern doesn't scare me Lignum. It's the way I was trained early in the 1970's at the beginning of my furniture making career. I've...