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How coarse the grit?
I've got an old really beat up and pitted plane iron that I've been working on. There's a lot of good metal left in the iron, so I think it's worth cleaning up. After spending an hour attempting to...
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Extremely thin kerf, curved cuts?
Say you needed to make some reasonably large radius, curved cuts in 8/4 to 12/4 material and you wanted to minimize to the extent possible any loss to kerf. How would you do it? Not many options to my...
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band saw problem
I have the typical Delta bandsaw. I just changed blades and now I can't get the thing to run without the blade slipping off the tire. I adjusted the upper plate to make sure it was co-planer. I...
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Maybe a bargain
As you may know, Home Depot is abandoning Marth Stewart paints. At my local store, they were dumping 8oz bottles of sample MS paints for fifty cents. Assuming 1 gallon normally covers 300 sq ft, an...
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RE:Woodsmith Tip
Might find these tips useful. Lew ------------------------------------ View this week's Woodsmith Tip online: http://woodsmithtips.com/l/824b-145521
 
How come nobody's ever manufactured a "skew planer"?
Yes, it's already been invented: to me such a contraption could address a number of issues with regard to planing... Even spiffier would be if the entire planing head could pivot so you could control...
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Shellac.net
Great supplier online. I did a test order of two 1/2lb bags of different shellac flakes. I did priority mail. Ordered during lunch online at work. Was in my mail box at home the next day. I live in...
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Mystery to solve.
I'm trying to figure out what this set of things is.
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mini gloat
My BIL gave me a little 3-wheeler that someone gave to him. No blades. I dusted it off and in ran fine so I bought a 6 pack of blades at sears for $24. Adjusted the tracking and blade guides and it...
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OT way OT but GOOD for Mom!
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What is it? Set 422
I need some help with the second and third items this week: http://55tools.blogspot.com/Rob
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Baltimore Woodworking show this weekend in Timonium
(Hmm, Timonium would be a good name for an element on the Periodic Table) Hey any of you Rec Dotters going to the Baltimore show. Stop by the Woodpeckers Club* booth on Friday and say hello. I'll...
 
Battery Recall; passing this along from Fine Woodworking.Com
linkage: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and BatteriesPlus have recalled an assortment of replacement Ni-Cd battery packs made for Black and Decker, Bosch, DeWalt, Makita, Milwaukee,...
 
Leigh it on me
A CL find for me -- brand new Super 12 with VRS kit for $280. Happy dovetails to me, happy dovetails to me :-) Larry
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how to tone down warm tones in teak, and a repair question
Hi...I have two teak pieces I had made in Indonesia. I oiled both and am now very sorry I did. I'm thinking about acetone to remove as much as possible of the oil surface (its been on there about two...
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