Hi again. Excuse me for asking what may appear naive silly questions but thats OK as I am not a woodworker, but love timber. I'm hoping to make the windows for my home very soon. Fingers crossed that I can get it together to do such a thing. Timber is my favourite medium. The point you made about how internal windows sashes tend to shrink as they dry out. Would in cured timbers avoid any more shrinkage in the timber. Also, assuming one has the skill , would a dove tail joint be a better method in joining a timber window over a straight edge connection. Hope you make many more of these videos. Take care and thank you, and greetings from Australia.
Hi Again Jude and thanks for your interest. Your questions are not silly at all. Its fairly unusual to have a window that is 'indoors' as such. It is more or less impossible to resist the forces of wood swelling & shrinkage whatever joint you use, but mortice and tenon is a good all round joint. We use comb jointing, but this is using joinery machines. All the best with your windows.
@@andrewjaynes9671 Makes sense. Particularly when you think that, I guess, the wood fibres are meant to absorb moisture to reach the leaves. thanks Andrew.
Hi. just found your site tonight and already gone through most of your videos. A thought just occurred to me, why not seal the end cut of the timber surface, that have the open grain. I guess if that would work somebody would have done it centuries ago. So I'm just wondering if you can explain why sealing the open cut of the timber grain wouldn't work in stopping a lot of that absorption of moisture. thanks again.
Thanks Jude. Yes end grain sealing is important in reducing some moisture uptake. Over the years though, if the sealer gets breached then moisture uptake gets a foothold quickly.
Hi again. Excuse me for asking what may appear naive silly questions but thats OK as I am not a woodworker, but love timber. I'm hoping to make the windows for my home very soon. Fingers crossed that I can get it together to do such a thing. Timber is my favourite medium. The point you made about how internal windows sashes tend to shrink as they dry out. Would in cured timbers avoid any more shrinkage in the timber. Also, assuming one has the skill , would a dove tail joint be a better method in joining a timber window over a straight edge connection. Hope you make many more of these videos. Take care and thank you, and greetings from Australia.
Hi Again Jude and thanks for your interest. Your questions are not silly at all. Its fairly unusual to have a window that is 'indoors' as such. It is more or less impossible to resist the forces of wood swelling & shrinkage whatever joint you use, but mortice and tenon is a good all round joint. We use comb jointing, but this is using joinery machines.
All the best with your windows.
@@andrewjaynes9671 Makes sense. Particularly when you think that, I guess, the wood fibres are meant to absorb moisture to reach the leaves. thanks Andrew.
Hi. just found your site tonight and already gone through most of your videos. A thought just occurred to me, why not seal the end cut of the timber surface, that have the open grain. I guess if that would work somebody would have done it centuries ago. So I'm just wondering if you can explain why sealing the open cut of the timber grain wouldn't work in stopping a lot of that absorption of moisture. thanks again.
Thanks Jude. Yes end grain sealing is important in reducing some moisture uptake. Over the years though, if the sealer gets breached then moisture uptake gets a foothold quickly.
@@andrewjaynes9671 Thanks Andrew.