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Thanks all. When I made the first table I was also a bit worried about how delicate the legs might look but was pleased with the way they turned out! For the latest tables I worried that by...

I've recently finished a project to fill in time during Covid19 social distancing to make two new bedside tables based on a lamp table I made a couple of years ago.
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I constructed the lamp...

This is the thing I can't understand. Girls in particular are more generally concerned with their appearance than guys and spend heavily on clothes makeup etc, with the specific aim to effect a well...

Thanks for the tips all. I'm not sure a trip to Tools for Working Wood is going to fit in with our current plans, although plans here are probably subject to change. A beautiful sunny day today, a...

I'm an Aussie visiting NY. I have a vague memory of references to an old tool shop in NY that's an Alladins cave and carried seconds of precision tools and parts for things like engineers squares.
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Well not quite a year later and I find myself more frequently called upon by various friends and relatives to do the odd bit of handyman stuff. The Roy tote is a bit big to drag around on most of...

One of my mantras is "where will it go when it slips?" and try and have no bodily parts in that path.

We are getting way off topic but I'm on rivaroxaban now. Interestingly the little paper cuts don't seem to bleed as much, if at all. Low dose Aspirin was the worst culprit for increasing skin bleeds...

It took me a while to realize I was cutting myself on the long edge of my chisels after I flattened the backs. The sharp square corners can cut, not just the leading edge!.

I did something similar recently. I wanted a cove cut in the end of a post to emulate a finish on an old English cabinet. As well as doing a simple cove cut, I had to elevate the leg as well as...

The lid only needs to lift when clearing paper jams or replacing toner, which I hope will continue to be an infrequent occurrence. For the rest of the time the power board with all the wall warts for...

This was something of an experiment. I had some old broken down 1950's bedroom furniture in the wood stash and decided to use it to make a printer station for the study. I based the concept on a...

I've got both Navfree GPS World and MAPS.ME installed on my android tablet for travelling. I've used MAPS.ME in Australia, USA, Europe, India, Argentina, Chile and New Zealand and it all worked...

I noticed there is a old thread on here http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?182557-Brown-Burr-Oak-Davenport that shows an interesting build.

I've been looking at things of this scale myself...

I think it is the same as a Davenport. I've got an old book with some dimensions in it for a plain version, but haven't seen any plans for a more complex style with scrolled or turned front...

If I were to do the clamping again, I'd think up a different approach.

As I said I was setup with wedge pieces which were actually the angle cutoffs of the boards. In theory the clamp up was...

I did try that but there must be some science about angles, pressure points and friction that didn't work for me. I think the sides are at such an oblique angle that the slip force overcame the...

Thanks all!

Re the dovetails. Yes I realized Roy's tote is nailed. It just seemed logical to me to assemble something that shape using dovetails. Probably over engineered! Working out the set out...

I've been using a plastic cube to occasionally tote a few tools around and decided I really needed something with a bit more character. I didn't want to agonize over a piece of high end joinery so...

Sergey, after fettling what alignment gap did you end up with between the sole and toe?

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When I started rehabbing mine, the toe of the English castings was actually lower than the body sole.

I bought one about 25 years ago when I was renovating a house, before I really started making cabinet type things and didn't have a good set of tools. It never really worked very well, but it must...

I was wondering about the 2000 lumen jobs. The focusable 600lm ones seem to be powerful enough for most things I use them for. I think one of the small 2000lm torches could be used as a tactical...

Here in Australia it is only 'chip and PIN', signatures were made completely redundant earlier this year. We also have 'pay wave' which uses a proximity reader rather than having to insert the card....

I found my first attempts at handcut dovetails suffered more from problems of layout rather than having anything to do with the saw. Cutting to the line is key, so the feel of a saw in hand is...