I was doing some rabbeting recently and had a similar question. I found this page with three short videos that might help:...
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I was doing some rabbeting recently and had a similar question. I found this page with three short videos that might help:...
Good question about the dye. When I applied alcohol dye on the soft (big leaf, western) maple, it was very blotchy. The client wants knots, and they soak up a lot more dye than the other area. The...
Cool idea! I dropped a board in the garage gravel, stepped on it, and took a look. The road gravel is a little too big, but the concept is great. We have some smaller size sand that might just do...
I am working on a cabinet that hopes to match another piece in a client's house. The old piece is an older Drexel Heritage sideboard in knotty pine with lots of small distressing marks, along with...
I just finished a walnut dresser for one of the kids. The milling was a mix of power and hand tools. The long cuts were done on the table saw and the easy ones with a hand saw/shooting board. Most...
So cool! Thanks for sharing the pic. I can see how that could be a challenge to stack, especially on carpet.
The book "Tremendous Toy Trucks" has some nice, realistic designs of vehicles. It's power tool focused, but easily adaptable to hand tools.
I made the log truck and tow truck so far and the kids...
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I'm in the "they work great" camp. I have a hard maple bench, just under 4" thick. 3/4" holes. Slight sanding (round-and-round) when they arrived and you can't remove them after a firm hammer...
Doug - I've been eyeing that jointer, too, thinking the same thing: for that price, you are getting a lot of iron! It looks like a real fixer-upper, though, and that time plus cost of parts might...
For me, it all came down to the cost and availability of the nuts. Roton has a much wider selection than Enco, but costs a lot more (min order of $60 IIRC). I don't mind the thread pitch at all for...
Cigar Trimmer?
Sounds cool - be sure to post your creation. It's been neat to see the many creative solutions to the handwheel/acme thread problem.
The thick washers I mentioned in the first post would be what I would use with those wing nuts. The length of those, however, might be a little long at 9.5". The handwheels are 5" and just right. ...
Totally true. One consideration, though, is that the handwheel hub is 1.4" in diameter (IIRC). That doesn't leave a ton of wall thickness (1.4-1.25)/2 = 0.075" for the set screw, assuming it was a...
I think with decent bits, a good clamp/vise, and a lot of sizes from small to large, the cast iron can be drilled on a drill press. Compared to steel it is soft. I drilled the set screws on my...
At the onset to this project, I thought the cost of the Benchcrafted set was a little high for what you got. With some shopping around, I found it's really only $30-40 worth of hardware. However,...
If I could get my hands on an acme flange, that would be a nice way to go. I definitely considered it, but the flange I found was costly. A nut could be used, but it's only 3/4" thick, so I don't...
In an effort to save a little money, but replicate the really nice Benchcrafted Moxon hardware set, I came up with an alternate approach to the difficult acme-tapped handwheel problem. The hardware...
Nothing on Euro machines in there or sliders.
I have the book and read it. It goes pretty fast and would be great for a power-tool only user to expand their horizons. Marc presents his approach to doing the "heavy-lifting" with power tools and...
Sean - I really like the smooth curves and the way you pieced together the various woods. I would like to have it in my home and could see it fitting in several rooms. It looks very fresh and...
The dovetail also is supposed to force the wood movement in the top to head in the other direction. If the wood expands, the dovetail maintains the flush front and forces the expansion to the back.
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Wellco Hardwoods down here in Colorado Springs carries a lot of sheet goods, including nice, one-sided maple melamine that I've used for cabinets (other side is pink). They deal only with...
The Renaissance Woodworker has a lathe-building addiction. You can see his bungee and treadle lathes over at his site (http://www.renaissancewoodworker.com/).