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Bending Wood Help
I saw a nice table in Wood magazine this month that uses the bending process for the legs. They say you can use kiln dried lumber soaked in water and fabric softener for a week then steamed and bent....
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cordless drill/driver - help me decide
It's getting to be time to replace my old cordless Craftsman drill/driver, and I think I've narrowed my choices to two or three. I'll be using this primarily for driving square-drive wood screws, but...
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TS Cutting not quite flat bottoms
Folks, I'm cutting a double tenon on the TS, with about 0.17 between tenons. Using a shop-made tenon jig to cut the space between the tenons I wind up with an inverted V shape on the bottom, sticking...
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beware the ides of january
ABC: Ocean. Docentience: Bell drags holds and S. Bandy: Fat bloodlettery.
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Woodworking Magazines
This posting may be useful to some and old hat to others. For long time subscribers to Fine Woodworking, for example ( or other mags as well) the web sites provide an index which if you have collected...
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Projects for scraps
I want to glue together, (butcher block like), my scraps into useable small planks. I thought this would be a good way to whittle down my overflowing scrap bin and do make something nice at the same...
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Engineered Lumber for Commercial Buildings?
Folks -- I ran into this past summer. We ( me and 3 friends from college ) had purchased some pieces of engineered lumber for use in a detached workshop. I had cruised some shelves at the spot and was...
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Cutting notches accurately
I'm building a pergola. I plan on using 16 foot cross pieces that will lay across two by tens sistered to a six by six post. I've got to cut 48 total notches. I was thinking of using my 2 HP router...
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Attaching Table Tops / Shelves
Hi, I have found numerous posts regarding how to attach a tabletop to a base which I think I have finally figured out. The question I have is, what about attaching a shelf? I am building a mission...
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My wife just took me up on it!
Hi all, My wife just bought me a nice table saw/router for Christmas, I set it up, but have never used a Table saw before, any safety tips ? Also...any one have some simple plans to learn the basics?...
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How long to wait between sealer coats
I applied polyurethane to my red oak baseboards two days ago. I am going this work in our garage and it has been raining for two straight days. I was going to sand the baseboards to prepare them for...
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drill bit types
Can someone tell me the difference between the type of drill bits, i.e. Gold, Cobalt, Titanium, and Black-Oxide. Also what does Metal index mean? thanks for your help john
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Dust Collection Question
Hi All, I'm setting up shop fo the first time, and want a Dust Collection set up, have used "shop-vac" in the past with fair success, how ever adding new equipment, some with 4" ports, am looking at...
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Craftex - CT086 6" Jointer
I just bought this the other day from Busy Bee. Anyone else purchase this, and did you have problems assembling. I'm having a hell of a time lining up the jointer to the stand holes - it seems to be...
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workshop wiring
I recently built a new detached shop (the kind of shop that my wife parks her van in). The electric service to the shop is fed from the house via 240V 50A breaker. When I had the electrical inspected,...
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