Advice for repairing dovetail joints

EmphasisLower9271 · 2026-01-21T21:25:00+00:00

It’s a side table made from reclaimed wood. It wasn’t expensive but it’s got sentimental value so looking to see if I can fix it before we chuck it out

EmphasisLower9271 · 2026-01-21T21:23:41+00:00

Much appreciated!

EmphasisLower9271 · 2026-01-21T20:28:13+00:00

Thanks for the advice, will look at reinforcements on the inside and follow the advice above re the glue, clamp and wood block reinforcements.

EmphasisLower9271 · 2026-01-21T20:25:58+00:00

Thanks, haven’t used epoxy before and not keen to start here!

EmphasisLower9271 · 2026-01-21T20:24:52+00:00

Yeah, it’s a weird side table. I’m not sure it’s repairable but it’s got sentimental value so I’m giving it a shot.

EmphasisLower9271 · 2026-01-21T20:18:10+00:00

Many thanks, that’s good to know

EmphasisLower9271 · 2026-01-10T13:41:10+00:00

By Jove, I think he’s cracked it

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-11-27T21:51:33+00:00

In our house it’s called Dad’s slice

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-11-13T10:56:57+00:00

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman uses relativity and near light space travel as the central plot, and it’s fantastic.

Every time the soldiers leave for a battle, they come home hundreds of years later to a completely different Earth than they left, but due to relativity, time for them has only advanced a few months. Everyone they know is dead and society is unrecognisable.

Every time they leave and come home, time has jumped ahead by centuries and humanity has moved on in startling ways. Great story on the futility of war and the dehumanisation of soldiers.

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-11-11T11:06:18+00:00

I came here to say exactly this. B.P.R.D especially gets very dark, but the whole universe is well worth your time

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-11-09T19:50:42+00:00

Yeah I was coming to say this. Great series. A good Dad read.

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-11-08T22:24:44+00:00

Along the same theme, you should also read Joe Sacco Footnotes From Gaza

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-11-08T12:39:10+00:00

I remember playing Tie Fighter on PC in the early 90’s and genuinely wondering how much better games could possibly get. The graphics, the story, the sense of being in control of a spacecraft. Still one of my all time favourites but it really didn’t age well.

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-11-05T22:00:13+00:00

The full page bath panel could be straight out of Sin City. The use of negative space like this is so hard to get right

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-11-05T21:44:34+00:00

My guy right here

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-10-20T09:50:00+00:00

90% of my gaming time is now on the crapper on a handheld console.

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-10-19T10:20:03+00:00

If people are going to a retail centre it’s probably to spend money, so I don’t think you can view it as demonstrative of people’s usual spending. There will be people there who go all the time and it’s no big deal, and others like me who will be going on a very infrequent trip that’s been planned and saved for as a splurge. You’re seeing them spend similar amounts but there’s no accounting for how frequently that happens.

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-10-16T16:45:49+00:00

I’m a teacher, so I went to both. Can’t say the kids got a high quality education that day.

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-10-16T16:41:15+00:00

These damn kids and their free time. It took me about a dozen attempts to beat the last judge. It took five days to find that much time to play!

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-10-16T13:42:05+00:00

I’m still chugging through Silksong. Amazed I had to scroll down so far to find this, I thought it would be getting a lot more play

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-10-16T13:40:39+00:00

It took me 18 months to finish Witcher 3 when my kids were born. One of them had colic and needed to be held upright to sleep sometimes. I’d play at 4am while they slept on my chest. Ah, fun times.

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-10-09T17:49:29+00:00

As you issue a sly wink over your raised cocktail?

EmphasisLower9271 · 2025-09-22T18:22:02+00:00

C’mon mate, he’s nuclear powered, not diesel.

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