Richard R

I like FreeCad. Had a quick play with Fusion but FreeCad clicked quicker for me.

@Frank Blank is in Essex if I remember rightly. How long do you reckon the thread title field on the forum software is?

Is that like an IKEA meatball in almost all respects, but a bit cheaper and looked down on by snobs and Swedish purists?

Good man! Well resisted.

Wow! Definitely not for the shy and retiring types.

Welcome aboard! I see you're in Chatteris - I have never been there but it's the subject of one of my favourite Half Man Half Biscuit songs 😁

Thanks all. Sweet cherry or red eucalyptus is close enough for me. Based on the photos it looks like the eucalyptus, but it is light so in the absence of DNA testing I'll leave it as either. Eventually I'll post what I have done with it. Don't hold your breath though...

The colour still isn't right on the photo, it is redder than this, no amount of photogra-faffing on my phone seems to adjust it right. And it will look different on your phone anyway. It is light. It's roughly 22.5x5x15.5cm, so about 1,743cm³. Weight is 999.5g. So density is 1/1.743 g/cm³ which is 0.57g/cm³ or 570kg/m³. Which I think favours the red eucalyptus, as cherry is denser and walnut would be more brown?

I think it's new wood. The skip was outside a carpenters I was parked by. They were refitting and in the course of that were also clearing up. I got talking and had a couple of large bits of quite decent ply that had been shelving and this random lump that looked quite nice. I should have asked! I thought I might route it out for deep pen tray type thing. Or give it to someone who can make use of it. Dunno really!

Apparently Spanner Crabs are red and walk both forwards and backwards rather than sideways.

Looks quite fun - let us know how you get on with it.

I think it's an identifying scrawl - maybe S7.

Too nice for firewood, too small for a chopping board.

That is jaw-dropping and mind-boggling at the same time! Fabulous work!

The gear was interesting on that video, but the bass faces were hilarious!