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Strength and stiffness are two different things. Strength is how much load you can put on something before it breaks. Stiffness is how much a given piece flexes under a certain load.

Stiffness is...

My mother recently did some remodeling in her house and added oak strip flooring to the kitchen and pantry to match the old (40's) oak floor in the rest of the downstairs. Some hardwood floor guys...

Thanks for the info, guys - and thank you for the link to that thread. Go figure, I searched for "motor heat" and "motor overheat" but not "hot motor." :)

I'm glad to hear it's nothing to worry...

Michael, from my reading, the problem is not that the ferrules have come loose, the problem is that one of the blades spins freely in its handle and one handle has a big crack through the area that...

I was working on my new Jet 1220 mini lathe today for the first time, and came across something I thought I would ask about. I'm new to having my own "floor tools" or machinery or however you...

I bought a Rikon 10-325 at Woodcraft several weeks ago. The box weighs about 250lbs and fit in the back of my mother's Suburban just fine with the 3rd seat taken out. In length, pushed up against the...

After having read some positive reviews and having heard some good things from folks, I purchased a Jet JDP-17MF about a week ago. The Jet is usually more expensive but MSRP has been dropped by Jet...

I would have to go through some serious math (or computer modeling, or prototype building) to confirm it, but I believe that the angled web idea would result in a weaker torsion box, particularly on...

I recently purchased the book "Tool Making for Woodworkers" by Ray Larsen. Although I have NO experience making tools, it does seem to me to be a very informative book on the whole process of making...

To think, I was already thinking about buying a portable planer. I may not be able to resist now :).

You might add the Bosch 1617 router to your list. It is also 2 1/4 HP. I purchased the combo kit which comes with a plunge base and a standard fixed base. Both bases are very well thought out and the...

Accuracy's not any good without precision, either ;). If you're trying to make ten 10" cuts, and five are exactly 9" and five are exactly 11", they average to exactly 10" and your accuracy is perfect...

I saw that 14' bowl on TV a while back - they attached it to the rear hub of a big farm tractor to spin it :). As I recall it was segmented out of hundreds of pieces and was done for a world record.

Actually, if I recall the FWW jigsaw review from a year or two ago correctly, they rated the Bosch 1590 as about equal in quality to the Festool jigsaw.

I have a 1590 that I got from my dad a few...

That's what I was trying to say :).

I think the air filtration systems are a very good idea (and I'm planning on buying one of the JET models soon), but they're not a replacement for good dust collection - the idea behind good dust...

I haven't done a lot of woodturning at this point (just some playing around with a 50's rockwell/delta lathe in a school woodshop) but I like it a lot and decided I needed to get into it. After some...

I've read some discussions on using torsion boxes as benchtops before - and while they work fine for a number of things, there is one main problem. One of the virtues of a big, solid wood benchtop is...

Someone in another recent thread said that the current HP ratings on tool motors are based on the electrical power consumed by the motor with the shaft held at no rotation (I don't know if this is...

I just thought I would post this because I was impressed - Rockler recently was having a sale on the original version of the Incra jig that they have Incra make for them. It was about half off....

Oh, I'm sure there are some that can actually do it - but I've seen a number of amps that are about $100 and advertise as 1000W - and then if you read the fine print, say about 50W RMS :).

They still do the stereo amp overrating thing, but mostly only with car stereo equipment - which is why you can get a "thousand watt" car amp which runs off of 12V and doesn't pop any fuses :).
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That's a "slow speed grinder" - slow as compared to the 3450RPM grinders. You can use them to grind hollow primary bevels on chisels and to reshape blades. The only problem with them is that they...

That sounds like exactly the right method to me, with one caveat - if you don't have a lot of practice sharpening, not using a guide to keep a consistent bevel angle makes it pretty easy to "roll"...

I realized today that Veritas' naming system is a little confusing. I have the Mk. II honing guide, which is about $50, not the Mk. II power honing system which has the big rotating wheel, etc. It is...