As much as I can. I travel a lot so not at all when out of town. I am an early bird so usually up at 5 on the weekends and the wife has to call me for lunch and then I usually knock off at 5 pm. If...
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As much as I can. I travel a lot so not at all when out of town. I am an early bird so usually up at 5 on the weekends and the wife has to call me for lunch and then I usually knock off at 5 pm. If...
Brodie,
I am sure that there are many ways to accomplish what you want to do out there. I have built a Hal Taylor chair from his first set of plans and have to say they are top notch. I was...
Spiral inserts! Well if you have a planer and jointer and can not or choose not to go the spiral route I vote for sharpening. Always made more sense to me and on my machines it was always more...
No ceiling! Many times I wish that I had not put one in my shop. And, how awesome is it to take a break from cutting up some wood and shooting some hoops! I vote for electrical and dust collection...
Let us know how it comes out. Mine is still sitting in the corner!
I looked at this stuff yesterday and it is all decent. I passed because the prices are considerably higher than I have been paying recently and I allready have too many projects. The Bandsaw is a...
John, where did you get maple? And if you don't mind my asking what did you have to give for it? I am looking for a source of 2" or better slab maple on the west coast.
Jeff, I will give you my two cents worth. If you haven't already made a purchase you may want to consider several things. Having the Husky for about 8 years now it is an ok compressor. It will...
Michael, I have a Performax 25" dual drum sander and have experienced some of what you are experiencing. I use the heck out of my sander and here is what I have found:
Initially set the drum high...
Aaron, I was with you on the danish thing until I learned the secret. If you will keep it just between you and me I will share the secret with you. The results are 100% the results of good prep. ...
Cody, I encourage you to get going on your chair. You can do it. Take your time and follow Hal's instructions. If you run into a glitch Hal is always glad to assist. I found it a very rewarding...
Thanks John. I had to resize the photos to get hem down to the allowable size. Not real up on this technology stuff. The back braces as well as the rockers are bent lamination. The most difficult...
This is the first post of any of my work. The wood is California Black Walnut finished with two coats of danish oil.
Hey David. We met a couple of weeks ago when my wife and I were over at John and Nancy's. Congratulations on all the new tools. Nice score on the Oak and good job on the resaw. I too have taken...
I did not use the figure eights. Here is what I used (see picture). I cut the groove on the table saw but a biscuit joiner works just as well. I have them all the way arond the top and no problem so...
Very nice walnut project. I have been working with walnut a lot lately and like it a lot. I recently built a drop leaf table out of walnut and attached the top to the base with metal brackets that...
Thanks for the info. I am using concealled european hinges so they will stay closed. My problem is when the door closes the hinge does not stop exactly at 90 degrees. It wants to come against a...
I am building my first set of cabinets that will have inset doors. The question I have is do I have to build a stop for the door to rest against when colsed?
From my recent experience if you are talking slab granite you need to figure about $100 per sq ft of counter area. May be able to find someone in this economy that has some granite you like on hand...
Jasun, for that kind of money I would be looking at an old piece of arn. If you are able to run a phase converter or have 3 phase in your shop you should be able to get a really sweet piece of...
I will add my vote to the spiral headed planers and jointers. I run a 24" straight knife planer, and a 20" spiral head planer. The set up, noise level difference, and length of time between changes...
Michael, did you not lower the filter bracket? I tried not lowering the bracket and don't think that I can get the flex pipe to make that tight a bend.
Rick and Gary, thanks. I will make this change when I get back in the shop later this week.
I recently acquired a 2hp Grizzly Cyclone (G0440). The cyclone had been purchased by someone else and partially assembled on the Grizzly stand but never run. The noise reducer was not installed. ...
Tom, I have been using the Incra system for several years now on my Unisaw. There are deffinately plusses and minuses with this system. On the good side very high level of accuracy and...