Q. Can you give me an interesting story about wood? I have to give a talk to some children and want something interesting to begin with.

Soft and low strength, but decay resistant.

Q. We are seeing erratic coloring in our oak when finishing with stains. We also recently have seen this fuming too. Will all the wood from one log have the same color behavior? What causes this stark variation?

Q. We attended your seminar on gluing with Jeff Pitcher. We think that our problem is with the wood surfaces. Can you quickly review those comments?

Q. What’s the optimum number of knife marks per inch when planing?

Q. We have some doors that we installed and they fit perfectly. Now, they have shrunk and no longer fit securely.

Better machining can improve the final appearance

Read these tips for solving common woodworking problems that can occur on the throughfeed moulder.

 Gavin Munro has grown his business literally from the ground up.  “We’ve taken a complete rethink of how wood is used as a material,” says Munro, a furniture designer and owner of Full Grown, an ecological, zero-waste producer of wood furniture.Instead of traditional methods — harvesting trees, milling, shaping and assembling the wood into furniture —   “We’ve bypassed that completely and we now grow trees directly into the shapes and forms that we want,” he says.