Yes, I tried the RIT on a sample this morning and it does have a purple cast to it - so that's not an option. Last night I glued a piece of bare wood to a piece that I had blackened with India ink...
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Yes, I tried the RIT on a sample this morning and it does have a purple cast to it - so that's not an option. Last night I glued a piece of bare wood to a piece that I had blackened with India ink...
Thanks, Scott. I am trying to avoid the vinegar / steelwool after the trouble I had with it in the past and looking for an alternative. The RIT dye and the India ink are both available locally. ...
Thanks for the response, Scott. I am building a World globe. The base sphere is red oak and the continents will be other hardwoods glued on the surface. I would like to be able to ebonize this...
Hello. Can red oak that has been ebonized with vinegar and steel wool solution be glued afterwards?
The segmented shapes that this is capable of producing is not limited to just spheres. My latest model was made of 1/4" plywood and measures 25" tall by 10" diameter. It was designed with "Great...
I have an old DeWalt RAS that I bought used about 10 years ago. A very nice machine to use as long as it is setup properly. I do most of my cross cutting now with a Makita sliding miter saw though,...
LOL!! That's funny you mentioned a vortex - I have made one of them in my workshop too. It's 8 feet tall and I use it as a dust collector :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gfna-lZTGA
Thanks Paul and Bill. Paul you should try this since you already have a copy of my gear making technique - there is a second jig not shown in the video that utilizes wooden gears to make the larger...
I made a video demonstrating how I make helix forms using a scroll saw with a spiral blade. Here is a link to the video on Youtube: [/URL][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-KDTlept6U
If you...
I decided to put both of my ebooks back on sale through the end of the year. The code and discount is the same as before, enter "sawmill" for a $3 discount.
Merry Christmas!
PM sent to Jerome. :) Enjoy!
Thank you everyone for the interest and encouraging compliments! I have added a video on Youtube that has a demonstration of how I draw a logarithmic spiral which is the shape of a cross-section of...
After discussing this with you guys I think the gaps formed from warping from the moisture in the glue. Each pair of blocks have the next joint surface flattened by sanding on the glass plate just...
Yes, I also use a planer after the jointer - gluing up tapered pieces would just be asking for trouble. I glue the boards up in pairs - let dry then pair them up and so on.
I do check the...
I like that idea of adding a few grains of salt to help prevent slipping. The blocks get cut up on the bandsaw afterwards and I doubt that it would hurt the blade.
I have suspected that the...
A lot of my sculptural woodwork starts off by gluing up thicker blocks of wood from walnut, cherry, and/or maple. I use a 6" jointer to flatten the faces and sometimes follow up with sanding on a...
I have also seen stepless drills - same thing you used, but without the steps. $6.99 for a set of three. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=66463 This would probably...
I have made very small scrapers out of old pocket knives. Use a bench grinder to shape it the way you want making sure you don't overheat the steel. Grind off the old knife edge so you don't cut...
I am looking for a certain router bit and I don't know for sure if it exists or not. The best way I can think of to describe it would be a plunging roundover with an end like a corebox bit. The...
A few years ago I had a bunch of small wooden parts I had made that had a little fuzz on the edges. Rather than sanding hundreds of small parts individually by hand I put them all in a 3.5 gallon...
You can turn the disc that the vial is on to compensate for a floor being out of level. Just keep the protractor facing the same direction as when you zero it when you measure or set an angle. The...
Thanks. A level with the kind of sensitivity like you are talking about would be overkill but possible. My goal is to make it where someone could make their own for next to nothing in materials and...
I just made two pdf files of the template and put them on the page. You can adjust the vernier to read to either true horizontal or relative to any other angle.
I had an idea a few weeks ago about making an accurate protractor that could measure an angle to 1/10 of a degree for setting up angles on tablesaw, jointer, bandsaw or whatever. It uses a level vial...
Thanks Sean, I didn't think to look in Canada.