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Oct. 2,3 - Festival of Fine Craft - Juried Show - Wheaton Village - Millville, NJ
http://www.wheatonarts.org/calendar/2010events/fcfest2010/overview
 
Horizontal mortiser DIY
Ok. I am making a horizontal mortiser and making up the details as I go along. I want it to have X,Y and router up/down (z) degrees of freedom. I'm using roller skate bearings for the guides and I am...
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Screwed up screw holes
More years ago than I can remember I came across a little kit for restoring screw holes. It was particularly handy for moving a strike plate for a door latch. The kit had a tapered bit to drill a hole...
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Sketchup mess-up
I stated how I model in 3D in sketchup and then manually create 2D drawings in AutoCAD. If I were in a true production environment I would have a checker review my 2D drawings or even better dump dxf...
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OT... Lee Valley Tools free shipping
from 9/20 to 9/27
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Baseball bats - Ash vs. Maple?
What do you guys make of this new-found love for maple bats instead of traditional ash? It seems there's a huge problem with the maple bats exploding and becoming dangerous projectiles: isn't...
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EasyCoper Review
Because I am looking into putting up crown molding (still need to work on my popcorn ceiling problem) I looked into the easiest way to do it. I stumbled across the EasyCoper on 'the' google and I...
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Grizzly Polar Bear Series
Any scoop on the "new" line of "P" series "Polar Bear" tools from Grizzly. We were getting geared up to take a run to Springfield during the next day or two to buy a G0453 15" planer. Now they have...
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Why I Never Wear Safety Goggles...
..subtitled, Thank God For Faceshields. This story starts, as do most stories of accidents, with a poor choice on my part: trying to make a miter cut with a chop saw on a piece that, in retrospect,...
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Finally found a great tune for my Podcast
needed to provide a well deserved credit at the end of the video. http://www.garagewoodworks.com/video.phpJust
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Old power tools unused for years - what maintenance is needed?
I'm a weekend home handyman, not a real woodworker. A long term health issue has me reluctant to spend any more money than I have to. I recently had two tools go bad: a palm sander and a circular saw....
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Crown molding w/ popcorn ceiling?
Any more difficult than a flat ceiling?
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Dust Sentry
Having gotten busy dimensioning wood on the Jointer & Planer, I have over-filled my cyclone's chip-bin more than once. It is a very messy business to then have to open all the dust-bags to empty the...
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Right Angle Drill Powered by Regular Batteries?
I am looking for a small handheld right angle drill that is powered by normal alkaline or Nimh batteries. This unit will be used maybe twice a year and it hardly seems worth the hassle of a recharger...
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How I made my Creative Playthings playset rock solid
I have a Creative Playthings playset with a 9' swingrail. While the playset is wonderful in many respects, it suffers from the fatal flaw of just not having enough of the right kind of triangles in...
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