Some suggestions:
If you plan on buying one tool for a lifetime, then Mitutoyo, Starrett or Brown and Sharpe (TESA) are all great (and expensive). I use Starrett at work, but in the home shop I...
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Some suggestions:
If you plan on buying one tool for a lifetime, then Mitutoyo, Starrett or Brown and Sharpe (TESA) are all great (and expensive). I use Starrett at work, but in the home shop I...
How far from "not suck" do you want to go? At the high end of clock kits is Erwin Sattler:
http://www.uhrenbausatz.de/en/index.php
Matt
Here you go- buy one of them for $3.84 : http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/assmann-wsw-components/AWH-24G-E202-IDC/AE11146-ND/5051783
and it's pair, in case you want to replace both...
Not sure if this is exactly what you need, but here is where you need to look anyway: digikey has all types of sizes of ths free-hanging rectangular connector.
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Beautiful work! Did you pierce that soundhole (??) by hand? My hand aches just thinking about that!
Matt
Tools for Working Wood (and others, I am certain) carry a very, very similar knife. I have one, and while the knife in the video appears slightly longer I cannot be sure of this (they may be the...
The North Bennet Street School has an "into to woodworking" course that is all hand tool use. They give you a list of basic tools to come in with and show you how to use each of them properly-...
Hi Mark,
I have made similar tables, and they way I do it is pretty simple. It looks like you have one angle to worry about in the above photo- the angle of the stretcher and the top mortise...
As a lifelong inner city and apartment dweller I will bow down in awe if you can set up a full power shop in an NYC apartment! I use mostly hand tools now, and have even stopped using my cordless...
I have this page of the LV catalog dog-eared. The thought of this plane gets me to sleep some nights- great prizes!
Matt
Hi Sam,
I have used the Custom Shop in Watertown, MA (just outside of Boston) to have some existing cushions re-foamed. They are a real store with a huge selection of fabrics and foams and such-...
Hi Ken,
I make small holes all the time for wristwatch parts- almost always use the pin vise/drill bit/spin -by-hand combo mentioned by Phil. Spin the pin vise with your fingers and the holes are...
Yikes- hope nothing is hurt or broken up there! I felt it just as I walked in the door, home from work. I thought my neighbor was having some sort of party- the rumbling was pretty loud, and I am a...
Hi Tony,
If you have time to get over to the Museum of Fine Arts, they have a new(ish) American wing with lots of American furniture- and the lower levels even have some exhibits on the...
I use teflon tape for stuff like this. Personally i use a brand called tygaflor- this would be serious overkill for a furniture application (i have lots of extra lying around from work in industrial...