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I was looking at kiln dried slabs, not surfaced, thank you for your replies!

Hi, I'm looking to buy some black walnut slabs. Maybe 25-30 inch wide, dried. Could you tell me what would be considered as reasonable market price these days per board feet?
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Sorry for still beeing not clear. The jointer tables or not set up, so setting up the jointer is my biggest problem.

Hi, this machine is combined jointer with thicknesser, what I mean I can set up is the jointer tables. I guess jointer is planer in UK.

Hello,
I just bought a Woodfast pt260 which is a knock off the Record pt260. It's decent quality but the boards from planer were coming out with some twist, maybe 1mm rocking on opposite corners. I...

That looks promising Ed, I didn't know this website. Thank you!

Thank you, I will try. I hope they're all gone but after cutting the ends of the slabs it seems that it didn't dry perfectly in the core so I don't want any risk. Remember some user saying how...

Hi, I bought some slabs that were kiln dried but not perfectly. When I removed the bark there were quite many dried "caterpillars" that are white when alive. I have cleaned the surface of the edge...

Hi, could you direct me to some source of knowledge about vacuum kiln drying? Are there any books or theses available? I know it's much about experience but I would like to find something to start...

I was told that the wood was seasoned for 2 years. It was kiln dried for one month. The 2 inch slabs seem to be dried properly although if you say it should be over 60 days probably it didn't get to...

Hi, thank you for your reply. The wood was kiln dried. Prior to that I was told it was seasoned for 2 years but hard to say how true is that. All the slabs were already moved and I don't really have...

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Please advice: I have ordered some 3m long 2 inch slabs to be dried together with some 3inch slabs. The 2 inch slabs came out dry, but after cutting the 3 inch ones it seems they havn't dried...

Hi. I'm going to import some live edge to a tropical country. The 2 inch thick wood was seasoned for 2 years. Now I'm wondering if it should be still kiln dried to lower levels ? At the moment...

Hey Keith, I live on Lamma Island. Yep HK might be the least friendly place to do woodworking. Are you still in HK? We can chat on fb or whatsapp.

Gentelmen, seeing so many woodworkers experienced working with live edge slab I'd like to use the opportunity to ad my questions.

1. I'm from Poland but I live in Hong Kong and HK is a place where...

Guys, thank you for your replies. How about cnc carbide cutters for steel? I've found cheap Mitsubishi carbide cutters that should have high quality. There is plenty of models so I need to measure...

Hi, I have recently bought a Chinese made carbide cutter turning tools (as I live in China). The smoothness after carving /scraping is far from the quality of Easy Wood tools videos. Is there a...

Hello, I finally found some time to do more work on my lathe. It's almost complete, didn't turn anything yet because there were some electrical problems. Fixing engine on plywood helped. The column...

Hello, thank you for all your advice.

@Leo Van Der Loo: Thank you for the link, very interesting project although I don't understand why to build such a massive box as a base for the lathe? As...

Hello wood turners, I'm planning to build a diy bowl turning style lathe. It will be similar to the one I've found online:cool::

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I have scavenged most of the steel structure around the...

Hey, thank you for great response and all advice.
@Frederick Skelly: I will cut it round next time to see the difference. I saw many videos with guys beginning with square block. I thought it might...

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Greetings form the Hong Kong jungle. Not much time so my bench grinder lathe project is moving very slow. I couldn't find M12 faceplate so following my friends...

@Bill: Hi, good point with hollow spindle. I've missed that. I was thinking to make a lathe for turning discs and bowls so it might be good for start but later I might think of something more. Thank...

@Rich Hi, I'm ordering things on Taobao - chinese ebay so prices are good. But going to China to find a machinist to redo the spindle seems like to much trouble ;)

Hello, I'm thinking to build a wood turning lathe. I live in Hong Kong and I have an access to many cheap Chinese "things". I have found this spindle with m25x2 thread and I'm wondering if there are...