Time for some levity

With all of the negativity and political stuff going on with the Covid-19 virus it is time to look at the humorous side of things. Feel free to add more, but keep it clean or it will be deleted.

How to bend wood like this - Outdoor furniture project

Looking for a new project to do. I've been spending a few months upgrading the workshop / fixing minor annoyances, and really need to actually build something. I ran across this in a magazine ad. The furniture is supposedly solid teak, though I don't think that will be in the cards for...

Is there a small, accurate table saw?

I need to downsize my hobby woodworking shop a bit, and would like to have a table saw that is smaller than a cabinet saw with the extension table. Is there a smaller table saw that would still be as accurate as a cabinet saw? Most of the smaller saws are jobsite saws, and they don't seem to have a...

cope and stick micro shaker?

has anyone done a cope and stick micro/skinny shaker setup, or is the consensus that it's always a miter wrap? i talked to Great Lakes a while back, and they hadn't seen it (or at least my rep hadn't), curious what others have done. i would much, much rather make them on the shaper than at the...

Drill w/guide or router?

Here's one I've been going over for the last 6 months. We have sliding pocket doors that separate our dining room and our family room. There are two of them 30 inches wide and they meet in the middle to form one 60 inch opening when open and a solid "wall" when closed. When they are open,...

AC electrical puzzlement

This morning I plugged in a small electric heater for the bathroom. No sign of life, figured it was either the heater or outlet. I turned off the circuit breaker (after I found it, panel is poorly labeled), removed the outlet and began poking around with a meter. Black to white was 0 volts, I was...

New Workshop Questions

We're moving in May and have started to finalize plans for the workshop. I've gotten tons of quotes on steel buildings and have had a bit of trouble

New Laguna DriftMaster LXIII

I don't disagree at all about getting things square, and I know it's possible to do this with the stock fence. However, the fence I have now is clunky,

Box for Cremation Ashes

Mike that columbarium was designed by Julia Morgan who did a lot of buildings around Berkeley and also designed Hearst Castle. I like her work better

AC electrical puzzlement

I've used these needle nose pliers dedicated to one job since the 1970's. I ground the groove so that a twist of the wrist forms a perfect half loop

Tally Ho

Remarkable! I tried to watch my old VHS version of The Last Sailors the other day and decided I need to get a digital copy. Leo & Tally Ho would fit

SC Pig-Picking