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It's a three day weekend coming up and I'm hoping to restart my efforts to build the bench I started collecting the parts/material for back in 2003. I have two glued-up slabs of tropical hardwood...

I've had great luck with vise grips, bench vise, and a heat wrench (propane torch). I had a type 11 with a screw that felt rusted solid. I tried penetrating oil to no avail. So I broke out the...

In 1990 I built a coffee table out of hard maple and I dyed the base black with alcohol soluble aniline dye. 20 years later and it's still black. The best part is I can touch up the dings with a...

I perform a variation of this -- DMT red (if needed), DMT green, WoodRiver fine ceramic (mineral spirits for lubrication). I'll be picking up a Spyderco extra fine white. That seems to serve my...

Thanks for the correction. I mis-posted. My runout is negligible -- approx. .0005" yet I struggle with getting the miterslot parallel with the blade. The closest I can get is .005" -- that's...

Hi all,

I'm getting ready to build my workbench, the culmination of 8 years of collecting tropical hardwood dunnage. I finally have a tablesaw up to the task of ripping and cutting my materials...