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Recent Article Comments WidgetIt's the small things that often make the biggest difference. I've found that the crafty veterans seem to know a little trick here or there that make turning better, safer, faster, or easier. So I'm throwing out a challenge: give us your best "nifty" and when this thread is done, it will make a...
Last Post By: Rich Stewart Today, 11:48 AM
Hi all, This post may portray me as embarrassingly stupid and inefficient, but whatever. Here goes. For the last 15 years, regardless of the sharpening media, I have used the following method: 1) hone a secondary bevel on a coarse stone until I can feel the wire edge on the back, all the way...
Last Post By: george wilson Today, 3:19 PM
Hi everyone, I'm new here and this is my first thread and post on this forum. I would like to introduce to everyone a new process me and my son developed to laser engrave true 8bit shades of grey using a 445nm laser diode. There is no dithering a image first, no pulsing or overlapping dots to...
Last Post By: John Champlain Today, 11:58 AM
The catch being, make it completely and totally by hand. No electric at all with the possible exception of drilling a hole in the cutter. In the world of everything being sharp working better, I'm thinking that those little hand twist manual sharpeners would work pretty well if the cutter in them...
Last Post By: Jon Shank Yesterday, 11:43 PM
If didn't have a good set of Shapton pro stones I'd be looking at these. The combo stones appear to be a pretty good deal. http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?sku=2-OHISHII
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Recent Forum PostsWhat you probably need to do is move the frog back. Grinding the blade shorter won't help.
James Scheffler Today, 10:46 PM
Their bench planes are pretty decent. If you buy it, don't throw out that thick blade right away. The aftermarket blades are all thick, and people pay
Bill Houghton Today, 10:46 PM
It's a no wonder the price tag on this beauty. There must be close to 8 man hours in packing that thing up.
I personally would love to own
Just saw this thread. When ever you do inset with the blum hinges your stop for the door should be set an 1/8" further back. This allows for adjustment
Alan Bienlein Today, 10:44 PM
Great idea for a thread.
What's on my bench right now? My bench. I'm working on a Scandanavian style workbench. I built the base a while
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Chinese laser purchase/Shenui/Laserworks tips and tricks thread
Thread Starter: Rodne GoldConsidering a lot of us are going or have gone that direction , I thought it a good idea to combine our knowledge pool in one thread. So I have started one. Those of you that have already posted to other threads can perhaps repeat and consolidate the posts here or at least point to other posts on...
Last Post By: George Carlson Today, 9:07 AM