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Valve stem from a WWI airplane engine, just like the one Grandpa used; he gave it to me in '72

Tony, magnets won't work. Try a 32 ounce framing hammer, they usually work well.

Oh wait, you wanted to keep it, not fix it . . . never mind.

Take a careful look at those cherry logs before sawing. I work at a sawmill, and from what I've seen of tornado-damaged trees, they often have a great deal of fracturing from the effect of the...

I started signing and dating my work while still a teenager, after discovering that some of it was being passed off as original. Given that many of us are making copies of antique pieces, or are...

Working a bandmill, I've managed to save bunches of these because it just seems there should be a use . . . I've tried lots of stuff but never found a use worth repeating.

It makes OK blades for...

For the uses you describe, a 45 sounds like a good choice. I'd suggest finding a nickel-plated plane without the floral casting; this puts you into the post-1910 period of greatest production (and...

Looks like David beat me to it!

Five brothers, heat guns, scrapers, and $100 in pizza and beer. Took a long evening for about 400 sq ft. :) Sometimes its good to come from a large family!

If you don't have the brothers, it...

If there is more than one or two drawers to do, I just use the multiple-passes-on-the-table-saw method, using whatever blade is on the saw. For just one drawer, I'm likely to grab a plow plane.

Think of it as a standing offer, guys.

I think the hardest part of filing any reasonable* saw is getting over the fear of messing up; using a re-toother makes it a bit easier because you know...

Over the weekend, I was chatting with some folks and the subject of learning to file saws came up. One guy said he'd tried it but messed up the tooth spacing, so I offered to re-tooth it for him. ...

If it works for what you're doing, you might try the trick of coating both surfaces very thinly with yellow glue, letting it dry, then ironing it on.

Well, you could always wait til the last minute and improvise . . . the sawmill I work for recently bought a sharpening shop. Earlier this week I was filling out a bid sheet for a job and realized I...

It looks like you could "stack" the compound moulding from a series of simple mouldings, rather than doing it all as one piece. Imagine taking the finished moulding, and ripping it at each shadow...

I thought about running them to the ceiling so I could do just that, then remembered why that room is a "spare room." Nothing is square, level, or flat, or even close enough to pretend! Ten foot...

I've bought parts from ST. James Bay, and a few castings (would have only needed one if I could file better!). The infill smoother I tried out seemed fine, the equal of a postwar Norris I looked at...

I'm not too worried about racking (it won't) or shelf sag--I just don't want the thing to fall down, especially while I am under it! :) The Sagulator is at...

I'm in the process of converting a spare room to a study, and would like to have bookshelves hanging on the wall above the desk/countertop. My plan was to basically follow the construction methods...

Titebond II seems to work fine as a glue, so I expect any of the yellow glues would work.

The only Russian olive I've finished was a turning finished with pure tung oil, followed by Shellawax....

In my limited experiments, best drying results have come from a rapid process of 1) dropping the tree; 2) sawing into boards; 3) sealing the end grain. Ideally, this all takes place in a couple...

You, sir, are a genius!

Not that I'm admitting anything, you understand, but I've seen this solution used a number of times both in the shop and while doing installations; it has always worked well.

The picture helps a lot. On the sash, the half-rabbet is cut on the exterior on the sides and top, and on the interior on the bottom; the frame is just the opposite. On a window this size, I'd use...

Now I'm wondering if we're talking about the same thing. Can you post a picture of what you mean? In the use I'm familiar with, "barn sash" is the term generally used for a fixed window in a shed...

You did say anything . . .

In business in Greenfield MA from 1851-1883 (maybe later--some conflict about this). Pretty common, even I have one.

That's all I got, wish I could help more.