Search:

When I was asking about how to use it, I was told to:

For the first coat:

1. Wipe it on thick, so that the surface is wet.
2. If any dry spots appear within 15 minutes, reapply so it stays...

I'll repeat my cite to Ken Horner's "More Woodworker's Essential Facts, Formulas, & Short-Cuts". Not so much for how to build one, but so you can figure out how stiff, and how heavy, any particular...

Figuring a 24" wide bench, that spans 48" between supports, the Sagulator (http://www.woodbin.com/calcs/sagulator.htm), says the sag under a 200lb center load just 0.004" per foot.

In other words,...

I understand using torsion boxes when you need stiff, flat, and light. But I've seen people use 3/4" ply for their torsion boxes,, both for skins and webbing, and that I simply didn't understand. ...

None that I've ever heard of. Why would anyone waste time devising one, or teaching one, or learning one, when inverting and negating the result works so easily and well?

Yeah, I know. Had a customer once, call me out to "fix" a system that we had put together for them. We'd done all we could to make it fool-proof. We'd built it with a tape back-up system, that did...

I know it's a sign that I'm a hard-core computer geek, but it always astounds me that more people don't use version-control software for their personal data files. Pretty much everything I write or...

I've been getting by with dog holes in the legs. If I'm working on something that's too short to span the legs, I span them with a 1x4, and rest the work on that.

I posted a picture of mine, when I completed it. It's not fancy, nor is the workmanship up to the quality of the others I've seen. It was, in many ways, my first real woodworking project. But it's...

I have an old pair of t-shaped steel clothesline poles, in the back yard, without any clothesline. I hang my oil-soaked rags from the hooks. I used to weave them into a chain-link fence.

Out in...

1: A reaction occurs that generates heat.
2: The heat is unable to escape, and the temperature rises.
3: The higher temperature increases the rate at which the reaction occurs.
4: The faster...

I'm pretty sure that is more a matter of your having less line loss ( == higher resistance == lower voltage) than of your having a 20 amp vs. a 15 amp circuit,

The amp ratings in a circuit are max...

Or fasten them together in a way that will allow for movement between them.

I built a bench last spring using two sheets of 3/4" MDF and a slab of IKEA countertop - 1-1./2" thick edge-glued oak.

I glued the MDF together, and wrapped it with 1/2" thick oak, but just...

One of my favorites:

I've laminated 3/4" Melamine to 3/4" MDF. If it turns out to sag, it was cheap and I'll build another.

Thanks for the advice. I'll probably be making sawdust this weekend, and I've a much better idea on how to proceed.

I'll be routing a miter slot in a Melamine router table top I'm in the process of building, in a couple of days.

Any hints? Things I should look out for? I'm planning on using Rockler's miter...

I'm building a router table. I'd intended to make the top out of a layer of 3/4" melamine laminated with a layer of 3/4" MDF. The thing is, I managed to mess up my first attempt at routing out the...

The ninety-ninety rule:

It takes 90% of the available time to get the first half of the job done, and the other 90% of the available time to get the second half of the job done.

I was talking to a guy who was selling cutting boards at the State Fair who claimed that the primary advantage of end grain was how well it stood up to the chopping action of a butcher's cleaver, and...

An optimist believes this is the best of all possible worlds.

A pessimist is afraid that he's right.

Bah. Everyone knows that the Gimp gives the best bang for the buck :p

Does that mean I could screw up and create 3 times the mess, in 1/3rd the time, if I was using a power planer?

I've considered using some sort of laminate, but I'm not sure what to use, or where to get it. Or, for that matter, how to glue it. P-lam is? And I can get it where?

I feel confident that I'm...