Cameron Wood
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Hollowing out the log to make a tube with somewhat uniform wall thickness and open top & bottom should work OK. The top & bottom could have separate...

Studies say the lawn is arguably the largest irrigated crop in the US, with more acreage than the the next eight crops combined (corn, wheat, cotton,...

Riding mowers is a different issue, but push ones do OK. Here in California, lawns are dwindling anyway, mostly due to water. The guy that takes...

There's the band saw upgrade discussed elsewhere; got roped in to hanging and installing an exterior door for my son- I replaced his entry door a...

"The hydrocarbon emissions from a half-hour of yard work with the two-stroke leaf blower are about the same as a 3,900-mile drive from Texas to...

Looking good. Putting the fastener box on top of the sandpaper is not bad as the weight keeps the sheets flat.

There are two approaches to the grain orientation: rift sawn, and flat sawn. The flat sawn I believe is more stable, or at least moves more...

Interesting, but I don't see the connection to Japanese planes.

IME, height is the main actual rule, with the rest to be worked out by the party or parties involved. Property lines can be tricky and expensive. ...

Santa Rosa, California

From the Craigslist post: "I've been a hobbyist woodworker and collector of woodworking tools for the past 45 years and it's now time to thin the...

I'm a fan of the tilde, since I often speak in generalities, or more precisely, approximatalities.

Oops, this was meant for 'neanderthal'.

I was going to say hot knife as well. I have clients that wanted me to replace their seal-failed glass panes in custom made wood windows. A bunch...

http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/655/837.pdf For #66 but should be similar process. Here's someone who replaced the contactor with a...

This was part of a mixed lot of tools that I got recently. There appears to be a fracture in the cutting edge, which hasn't affected the light use...

Three passes with a beading bit in a router table should do it.

Now that's a jobsite saw! Nice Powermatic saw. I also wouldn't replace the switch, but then I probably wouldn't replace the fence either...

Personally I would say zero coats, although the solid-core door outfeed/assembly top is getting some finish over time from drips and rags used to...

A slick is by definition a "big chisel" so included, but I think we are talking about woodworking so not stone chisels, cold chisels, air tool steel,...

I'm getting a bigger band saw, & so working on the far corner of the shop, where the least functional stuff drifts to, including the two systainers...

I got one job after the previous guys were fired. They installed siding with brad nails and it was coming off the walls after a few months in the...

Got the hyper-custom project installed last week. The client (in photo) had commissioned the silk fabric canopy for her son's wedding. Now it is...

I was big into slot cars back then too. Still have brass tubing, rod, etc.. Built frames, rewound motors- it was a hoot. Come to think of it, I...

If you assemble the frame first, any inside profile will be rounded at the corners- a lesser look by most standards.