Gentlemen, thank you both so very much for these ideas.
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Gentlemen, thank you both so very much for these ideas.
Since '87 I've preferred to slice bread with a non-serrated Japanese kitchen knife (household-grade laminated steel, cost maybe $30 when new). To each his own--I just thought this would be...
Thanks Bruce. Luckily I stay logged in on my tablet and phone and haven’t needed to log in for a long time (because it’s been way too long since I’ve cleared out the caches and cookies). I use a...
Dumb question. I thought I knew my SMC password until I got a new computer last week. Nope, whoopsie. There mist be some kind of link on the sign-in page that would email me a link to change my...
Same here.
Thanks so much for those links, Jim. Lots of great ideas and pictures.
Many thanks, Steven, for the pics of your donkey’s ear. I also have the Veritas shooting board (yes, the L & R pair, Rob) and during my recent trim project there was one piece of moulding I needed...
I bought both Veritas shooters and felt so guilty about such an extravagance. Felt much better after using both to re-do the trim in the powder room. Could get by with one for some of the trim but...
Add my name to those who keep them in their original plastic bag in a tool drawer. They don’t shrink or swell noticeably, even in the driest and most humid times of the year.
Thanks Ken. For me, it was as informative as entertaining—lots of both.
Thanks for saying that! I’ve been having that feeling a long time, and arrived at that crossroad just yesterday. Nice job on your sawing station.
Snapped in 3! Sorry to hear that. Hope you find a replacement at a reasonable price.
Very interesting! Thanks all.
—John
Same. At first, productivity was important to me because of limited shop time. I assumed power tools would increase productivity—and they do when their set-up time is more than offset by their...
Thanks Joe, so well put. Agreed.
Now this thread drift is nearing an overtly political content, so I’ll say one more thing, and you or anyone else can have the last word. If you’d written “own” instead of “seize,” I’d have been...
I thought he was jerking your chain...maybe because I assume most people believe in (to paraphrase Richard A. Epstein) keeping their hands off other people and off their stuff.
Love it. . .
Nice design. thanks for the build thread.
This is something I’ve wondered about. No doubt you’re correct, but in view of the strength and
longevity of modern glues, does James’s design have a greater risk of failure in ordinary use...
Beautiful! Many thanks for the narrative and also the picture of the truck outside the plant!
Mike, you’re way too modest. Another Creeker sold me a D8 you sharpened, and it cuts wonderfully. I own several Disston saws, and without any disrespect to them, yours is a cut above the others...
Thanks for saying that, because I’ve had very conflicted views about exposed joinery for years. On the one hand, a modest amount of exposed joinery seems to give visual interest, partly because of...
Zach Dillinger’s “With Saw, Plane and Chisel: Building Historic American Furniture with Hand Tools.” I own this book and recommend it for what you’re interested in, even if the style of furniture...
My $0.02 FWIW. I think a lot of woodworkers would overlook or reject that design because of a fear that the table would be prone to split along the grain as the top flexes lengthwise. The...