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You might try a search for Richard E. Blizzard.

He has written quite a few books on wooden toy building at several levels of complexity. He had a tv series in the U.K. (quite a few years ago...

If you like The Woodwright's Shop and the hand tool approach, you might try 'The Tiny Tool Kit' episode, http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/watch-on-line/featured-guests/chris-schwarz/ it shows some...

Thanks for the input guys.

CH

Thanks for the reply Simon.

I suspect that we'll end up with a Saw Stop, for the reasons you outline.

My only interaction with a Saw Stop was in a commercial production environment and was not...

Good morning all,

My workplace is interested in replacing the tablesaw in the facilities/maintenance department.

The shop is required to deal with a wide variety of tasks, and the saw will be...

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1995, Robert Mitchum's last film. Not one for the grandkids.

As an alternative to gloves, would a few turns of friction tape around the individual tool handles be helpful?

I quite like 'Dead Man'.

When I was small, Conkers in their season, marbles in its, desktop cricket.

Audrey Hepburn, Myrna Loy, Brenda De Banzie, John Mills and Charles Loughton to add a few more.

The episodes are downloadable from the podcast section of itunes.

In our time with Melvyn Bragg

No such thing as a fish

The Infinite Monkey Cage

Case Closed!

The Woodwright's Shop

John, I was being playful.

Not all gallons are created equal.

A U.S. gallon is 3.785 litres, an Imperial gallon is 4.546 litres and was infact, if memory serves, once defined as 10lbs of...

Interesting book.

Surely a gallon of water weighs 10lbs.

"A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter".

;)

If it bothers you, then vacuum the sanded top using a brush attachment. Perhaps wipe it down with a dampened cloth. If, on re-flattening, your plane blade becomes dull then it's just another...

I'd take him up on it.

If you are worried about grit from sanding then don't sand it. If you fancy scraping, it certainly wouldn't hurt.

As far as 'damage', from sanding on your plane blades...

I'd pay good money to see that.

I'm dusting off my cassette player.

'a large plurality of the people on this and most other forums don't even know the difference between "quiet" and "quite"'


'A more often made error for this forum is "vise" and "vice." The both...

I dropped in the showroom two or three weeks ago and overheard someone ask the young lady there about the plough plane. The gist of the reply seemed to be that they were fine tuning its manufacture...

Or one could just take the house,

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

something like that might be a giggle.

Caspar

(no connection)

Would it make sense to mark off your required measurements from your inconvenient source onto story sticks or perhaps one of these,

http://www.leevalley.com/US/Wood/page.aspx?p=65359&cat=1,43513 ?...

Cedar by the look of it.