You have shop space, you have tools, hopefully you have an idea of thekinds of things you'd like to build, and if you're a homeowner you have non-woodworking tools and non-woodworking things you...
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You have shop space, you have tools, hopefully you have an idea of thekinds of things you'd like to build, and if you're a homeowner you have non-woodworking tools and non-woodworking things you...
I'm going Friday afternoon. May take in part of Saturday also, not sure. I live near Stone Mountain. The Norcross location is more convenient to me than the previous airport location. I don't go...
I have a "Woodsmith Fine Tools No. 121" that I bought from Woodsmith some years ago.
One side is graduated in sixteenths, top and bottom, and both top and bottom scales read from the left. This...
So the knob was a red herring, but you really need to find out why the kickback occurred so you can avoid it in the future. Maybe the board had a high spot in it and maybe the rollers also needed...
If this isn't an heirloom you're building, and the stiffness of the panel isn't an issue, I'd use quarter inch oak plywood. You'll eventually use most of the rest of the sheet, for backs of curio...
You can use almost any kind of foam material. Just trim it to fit. It doesn't need to fill the grooves full length. The strip insulation sold to homeowners for doors and windows works. Don't...
Bandsaw blade manufacturers will custom-make blades to the length you need, and the premium isn't extortionate.
However, if you haven't used a bandsaw before, you might want to get a book that...
Jim, I had a Craftsman drill press that I boght new about 40+ years ago. It didn't have an adjusting lever. It had two rods, one attached to to each side of the motor baseplate, that fitted into...
Frank, try removing the quill, cleaning it off, make sure there's no trash up the whatchamacallit that the quill fits in, reinsert the quill, open the chuck all the way, put a block of wood on the...
Yeah, Mike, I just went down to my shop and looked at my dado set and the blades do have a negative hook. They're probably all made that way - it makes sense. That would alleviated my concern on the...
I attached some to 1/2" sheathing with construction adhesive (the stuff in a tube like calking compound). You do a single panel at a time, which lets you press it down pretty well with your hands and...
I don't know if you can get a dado set with negative hook angles, but if not it could be hard to control on a "crosscut" dado unless you took multiple light cuts.
Cutting a "rip" dado on a RAS,...
For the benefit of anyone in the Atlanta metro area, I have over the years bought consistently good quality birch and oak ply at the HD on Highway 78 east of Stone Mountain. The last sheet of birch I...
What Scott said. The trouble with a high hook angle is that the blade bites into the wood and tends to feed itself back at you, which forces you to hold the saw back at the same time you're pulling...
There's no difference in the performance of the bandsaw. They might last longer than rubber, but rubber will last a long time. I wouldn't change tires unless there's something wrong with the ones on...
Tom said it - it's air flow - quantity and velocity - that moves dust or leaves or any other solid material. Not vacuum.
David, assuming that you thickness plane all of the stock before cutting the dados, what's the problem with it all being the same thickness? I've had problems with thickness variation of S2S lumber...
The reason for using the two-pass method is if the minimum width cut by a single pass of your dado blade is wider than the board which is to fit in the dado.
The method is to use a less thick blade...
You can easily do without jointing the edges of boards cut on a tablesaw which has a decent blade set at 90 degrees to the table.
I bought a 3/4" diameter by 1 1/2" cutter length Woodline pattern bit with a 1/2" shank at the recent WW show in Atlanta. I don't remember what it cost but it was less than $20.
I expect all of the...
All of the above.
I have a 14" Rockwell (early Delta) trhat I bought new sometime in the 80's, and I doubt that I'll ever buy a larger bandsaw, even if the stock market comes roaring back before...
Thanks, David. That's beautiful work. I assume the relative "wideness" of the edging is to provide strength at the corners?
Clever idea, David. Haven't seen that before. Have you actually built one like that?
Brad, exposed end grain doesn't look bad if properly finished - sand to a higher smoothness and pre-wet it with...
If complete adhesion of the finished lamination is required for your application, I wouldn't even attempt it, because you won't get it without a large vacuum press or an industrial grade hydraulic...
I haven't seen that article, but I can't conjure how that would work unless the board you're jointing is almost perfectly flat to begin with.