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O/T: Bubba and Abner's Big Adventure
This one is just for Twayne. Enjoy Lew --------------------------------- Two Arkansas hunters, Bubba and Abner, got a pilot to fly them to the Canadian wilderness where they managed to bag two bull...
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Close call
"Z3Driver" wrote by the kickback genie. I was trimming 4 short (5"x5") boards for a project, taking 3/4" off one of the sides. I trimmed the first three against the rip fence without a problem. When I...
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12 years ago
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New Planer Trick? Or did I simply think of the wheel on my own?
While making tpo rails for our new deck, I thought that "crowning" them would help rain an snow run off. Last time, I ran the two bys through the TS twice with the blade set at 5 degrees or so. This...
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12 years ago
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Cutting quarter-inch plastic (Saber/jig/scroll) saw
One issue with cutting templates (for my router, etc.) out of plastic is the heat generated by the blade and the resulting melting (and, then fusing) of the material behind the cut. I had a paper...
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12 years ago
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Fastening to MDF
My wife recently wound up with her deceased mother's house. It has numerous smallish - and some not so smallish - problems. One is that the kitchen has sheet vinyl. It was installed after the cabinets...
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12 years ago
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portable planers
My delta 22-560 planer has lost it's has it on backorder (two to three months). I was able to get a belt that was close in size but could get it to fit. does anyone have a recommendation for a new...
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12 years ago
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old hand saws
I started to cleanup some old handsaws that I have. Disston, UNION... I want to find out more about the UNION saw. UNION 70. I know I had a link to old hand tools somewhere, but I can't seem to find...
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raid on Gibson Guitar
It isn't just the recently raided Gibson Guitar that is sweating, says Eric Felten. Musicians who play vintage guitars and other instruments made of environmentally protected materials are worried the...
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Clean a Bandsaw?
My father-in-law gave me a 10" Black & Decker table-top bandsaw. All the parts appear to be there, albeit a bit dirty or rusty. It's a three-wheel bandsaw that uses a 56-1/8 blade. I finally picked up...
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Blocks with holes pics
Put up a couple pics on abpw, so you could see what I was working on, and how it came out. Simple project, except for getting the spacing, took me a while, but got it by eye-balling and a little...
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12 years ago
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Router Foot Switch - A Winnah!
A while back I posted a comment about how I set up the electrical connection to my router so as to be able to plug-in a shorted HFT Foot- actuated switch and control the router with it. At the time, a...
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12 years ago
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Bad Bosch Band Saw Blades
The quarter-inch x 93.5 inch blade for my Delta BS snapped in half on start-up. We had been cutting half-inch pine - about sixty lineal feet of curved fence pickets Initially, the Bosch cut nicely -...
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Plans for making a simple plow plane?
I'm finding that I'll be needing a plow plane for my next project (have been making do by cutting dados w/ an assortment of other hand tools) --- does anyone have plans for such? It doesn't need to be...
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inobvious sources for buying hardware and wood?
Okay, I'm looking at starting to turn out some dovetailed cases hopefully en masse (photograph of my prototype here: but I'm not finding exactly the things which I want, either locally or on the 'net...
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Sawing with one eye
I am right handed. However, since birth, I suffer from amblyopia - lazy eye - in my right eye. This means I can not sight down a saw when cutting dovetails or other hand saw procedures. The...
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