The sad thing is, I live about 15 miles from the Popular Woodworking office where the event was held here in Cincinnati, and I didn't know it was there until it was over.
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The sad thing is, I live about 15 miles from the Popular Woodworking office where the event was held here in Cincinnati, and I didn't know it was there until it was over.
I'm going to build several electric guitars in the near future, and I'd love to build them out of some old reclaimed wood.
I can find Redwood and various pines all day, but neither is exactly a...
I struggled to explain this to my wife, why it was a big deal. Best I could come up with was that Sam was John Lennon and Elvis. Sam was Miles and Coletrane. Sam was Scorcese or Kurosawa. Sam was...
I think I might take a blow torch to a piece of poplar and try the CA. If that doesn't work I'll give West a call.
I'm in the rare position of not having to make something look "good" :)
Greetings all, I have a question for you wood experts that I'm not sure quite how to categorize, so General Woodworking it is.
I currently have no room for a shop as my half of the garage is...
This is why this forum is unlike any other.
I'm lurking on probably 20 forums across the net, on subjects from guitars, to internet marketing to smoking meat. I'm Actively participating in at...
Matt, fair enough, and I realized that. But it's still frustrating.
For the past few weeks I've been trying to snag a 60 1/2 off of "that auction site". I'm not even very picky, as I'm comfortable doing some rehab and restoration.
It seems that every time I bid,...
Wait, when did we start buying tools based on "need"? Did I miss a memo?
Looks like there is a slight glitch since the move. I posted to a thread apparently right before the shutdown/move started.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=25523&page=2
but if you...
Early this summer I made a trip around Cincinnati's four area Flea Markets (three and a half, really, as one is merely a pole barn filled with a whole lot of nothing). Most had a bunch of "parking...
I can attest to the protection of WD40. in 2000 I bought an old car, a 1973 MGB, with really lousy paint job. I took some 220 on the random orbit sander and sanded down to bare metal in a few places...
And just to wildly overload you with information, other than the lever cap, it's a type 15 Stanley, manufactured in either 1931 or 1932.
Based on the type study :
Raised ring around the base of...
Holy &%$)@*~!
I'm used to people posting project pics here and thinking "Wow, that's nice."
But this is the first time I've ever actually said Holy &%$)@*~ out loud with mouth agape.
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My father built a bench a while back. Traditional bottom, made out of doubled up 2x4 nominals and then planed down to just proud of 3x3 (He's an electron burner, so his DeWalt planer did this part.)...
I had to stop getting the Lee Valley catalogs. The wife doesn't like pornography in the house :)
Aaaand, they're gone. All are listed out of stock.
So which one of you bought them all up?
And, moreover, when will they be back?
Just remember that based on the chemistry involved you're forcing the FeO2 (That's rust in english) to give up Oxygen, essentially forcing reverse rusting, leaving as much iron behind as possible.
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OK, I guess I'll jump in with both feet and ask the difficult question.
I've been bottom feeding rust off the auction site of dooooooom for a while now and I've got some pretty good deals. I've...
Just down here in the basement straightening up. Noticed a cardboard box and grabbed it to throw it out. It was too heavy to be empty.
Dug through it and remembered, that Type 11 #5 rustbomb I got...
Someone on the oldtools mailing list actually contacted LV customer service and got a straight answer. Even though it was just an April Fool's joke, they really did make one. That beast actually...
If you don't feel up to it on your own, I can heartily recommend Steve Cooke at Cooke's Sharpening. I bought a Disston 10" backsaw on the auction-site-which-must-not-be named, and had the seller ship...
Veering WAY off topic here, you finally hit on something I know. My other obsessive compulsive hobby is cooking.
French Fries are not named after the French. "Frites" are Belgian in origin.
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I agree with both Bob and Wendell. I'd not paint/japan it at all, I think it looks good, thought bluing it as Bob says is probably a good idea.
John,
OK, that's cool. And only a buck or three more expensive than other replacement cap irons. Excellent.