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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
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
Last Post By: David Weaver Today, 12:18 PM
I don't know he's a scientist...:rolleyes:
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robert baccus Today, 11:44 PM
I started using 2 car garage as a shop and almost immediately had to build a downdraft sanding station because I was doing a lot of sanding. Then I added
Bob Grier Today, 11:40 PM
Thanks Dick. That should do the trick. There is just so much you can do with it and hopefully we get to see some of that beautiful work of yours. It looks
John Terefenko Today, 11:39 PM
First, see what you can surmise from the existing structure such as heating vents. With the grill off you can often see and poke around with a wire and
Peter J Lee Today, 11:37 PM
I'm another shoulder plane guy. I have a LV Medium and use it all the time and will get a LV Large when I can convince myself to spend the money. I
Dave Cav Today, 11:35 PM
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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