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That's easy peasy. Go to a good canoe store and they can order you a new set of gunnels. For the thwarts and seats I went to eds Canoe. (http://www.edscanoe.com/). I put in fitted mahogany decks...

Ok, my renovated kevlar canoe has ash gunnels, mahogany decks, and cherry seats and thwarts. Ash is traditional for the gunnels because it is strong and flexible. The decks are any rot resistant...

That is why whenever possible I pee on my compost pile. It works best if your back yard is fairly private.

OK. Answered some of my own questions: It is tuned in 4ths, not 5ths, and as such is perhaps closer to a bowed guitar than to a cello. Still cannot fathom the skill needed to set the frets and how...

Lovely instrument. As an occasional cello player I am struggling with how 7 strings could be tuned. Are they tuned to 5ths? if so is the top string in the same range as the Cello A string? It is...

There is one surefire way to get rid of moles. You need small mammalian predators. Sometimes referred to as a Clever Animal Trap, or a CAT for short. There is a reason we domesticated them, and it...

Ya know, another alternative would have been to invite it in as a pet. They aren't poisonous to humans, and they do like to eat the local bugs that you really don't want in your shop. Personally, I...

gold, refinancing my mortgage to 4%, and NOT paying it back any faster than I have to. Gold and silver are going up long term, but its a scary ride. You can lose 25% over night, and take 3 months...

I have the current iphone, and love it. As far as apple reliability goes, I have an ipod that I finally quit using. I got it for my daughter about 10 years ago, at some point she upgraded and gave...

Dang. They always get me with that. . . Now, my opinion. The first really good planes I bought were Lie Nielsens, I love them, and all things being equal I will continue to buy those. That said, I...

Actually, I have a bread maker, and I recommend you not throw it out. It makes hopeless bread, but it makes good dough. What I do when I am making a fancy meal is I use the bread maker to mix and...

I think in this sort of situation it is important to think about what is important to you, and where you are willing to compromise, and where you want to stand your ground. Examples: Listening to a...

It is VERY IMPORTANT that you NOT get rid of your bats until you talk to the Maine DNR or something. Bats are an essential part of the ecosystem (they eat thousands of mosquitoes per bat). About...

Yup, have the 12 inch and a 16 inch saw. I just ordered their new dovetail saw. They are really pretty amazing. Given that I just ordered the dovetail saw, I would say yes, I would not hesitate to...

Hey, wait a second. All spiders are predators, and predators that specialize on insects are nothing but good for us. I understand that you need to kill ones in areas where people tend to be, but...

OK, here is what I know:

There are two basic types of wood stoves, catalytic and non catalytic. The catalytic stoves have a catalytic chamber that combusts the wood smoke at a relatively low...

here is a wood movement calculator
http://www.woodworkerssource.com/movement.php

Right now the humidity where I am is 65%. In the winter in doors it can get down to 10%. Thus, if you made it...

Another rule: If you look long and hard enough for a tool on ebay you will eventually give up and buy a new substitute. The tool you are looking for will show up on the bay before your new tool...

lets see. In the winter I put it in a big plastic bag, and put a layer of sawdust down before I build a fire in the wood stove. I occasionally add a shovel full for yucks. Be careful. It doesn't...

Please enter me, I would love a good marking gauge like that!

OK, I will fess up. I made a bunch of them and (wait for it) sent them through the planer. It worked kinda fine. First, I took very small bites, and second, it chipped off the ends quite a bit. I...

I have worked in the tropics trying to keep computers and cameras alive, and clothes from not growing mushrooms. Basically there are two classic solutions to the problem of keeping things dry: Air...

I have never used diamond wheels, but I have used diamond core drills for drilling rock. For these I used diamond tool coolant concentrate to make the cooling solution.
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I have the contractors saw-- it was the right choice for a hobbyist like me -- I got the extension table, but eventually replaced the table with a phenolic router top from Woodpeckers. I got one...

I believe you have made the famous dodo-tailed joint. They were originally designed to assemble dodo nest boxes until the bottom fell out of the project.