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Never a truer word! Occasional experience of anything will never make a master.

Eighteenth-century cabinetmakers seemingly made more beautiful furniture using animal glue than the majority of...

Dustboards

I meant to respond to this comment in my last comment (#71) above, but forgot. Alcohol – as used in your shellac polish – is hygroscopic i.e. it absorbs water from its environment. If the glue you...

Joints glued with animal glue can be dismantled using a combination of heat and moisture, but it does require some effort... they don't just fall apart in a damp atmosphere.

Animal glue can...

Parallel backboards aren't "better" than non-parallel backboards, after all, they achieve the same objective. There wouldn't have been any less care taken in their production. In fact, working with...

No. It is a couple of hundred years old.

The backboards of chests of drawers, bureaus and high dressers are often a bit skew-whiff.

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Congratulations on completing a wonderful piece of Georgian furniture. I hope to see many more from you.

(Your friend Down Under)

Presactly! Blotch Control – AKA Character Killer.

It amuses me when I hear woodworkers ranting on about the natural beauty of wood… and who then try and alter its natural state.

Wood is...

I don't like ostentatious seventeenth- or eighteenth-century furniture any more than gaudy Victorian stuff, though I can appreciate the craftsmanship and work that went into making it.

Over...

You could try this method.

I completed this table recently and it was wax polished without varnishes or sealers. The polish is made up of hard vegetable wax, mineral waxes and some hard resin. It is moderately resistant to...

Hot hide glue for everything except for flesh wounds where I use CA glue (I haven't used sutures for years!).

A Lovely job Zach! Did you have any luck with the pigments and linseed oil on the poplar and pine secondary woods?

Adam Cherubini (post #15) hit the nail on the head regarding 'London" lapped dovetails. If you have ever seen early, non-'London' drawers, the top edge of the drawer is often lower in height than the...

The table sizes I made varied and I actually had several different sizes of 3/4" thick MDF base boards. The dimensions of the base board need to be double the distance between the long axis and short...

That's a much more pleasing result!

I made an ellipse plotter about 25 years ago for producing large elliptical table tops (up to 10 feet by 7 feet). I routed a dovetail cross in a large square of MDF and planed a couple of small...

Very nice indeed!

Oops! Well we've established I'm a bad speller... what an idiot! Oh look... you have misspelled my name too! Twice!

Your world is very black & white. Moderators have more powers than banning....

Blob, I don't think I mentioned banning! Through film and other media, hillbillies are portrayed as comical whipping posts, but I obviously misinterpreted the national sentiment towards them. I...

Are the moderators going to allow this poster to continue with his dillusional, racist and offensive remarks?

These opinions make the best arguments for bench heights yet. I've always thought Schwarz at his bench looks like a giraffe at a watering hole.

I guess I forgot to add a smiley. :p

A large percentage of US industry is already metric to compete on the global market. It's usually the DIY markets and hillbillies that offer resistance.

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