It seems to me like the price asked for the most beautiful rare woods has skyrocketed lately, at least for things I look at, which includes figured claro walnut, and koa....
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It seems to me like the price asked for the most beautiful rare woods has skyrocketed lately, at least for things I look at, which includes figured claro walnut, and koa....
Scale matters here, both of the overall finished board and the pieces that make it up. The larger the pieces and the larger the board, the more likely problems are. The villain is pieces reaching...
Much of its value is its ability to use BOW featherboards etc. By the time you're done you can spend nearly $300 for a full system. If you have more money than time, go for it.
You can buy a nice...
I think John, like me, has been interested in this stuff for woodworking jig platforms. It's sort of a hybrid between baltic birch and plastic. I think the Koskisen ply would work well too.
In...
The fact that the only high quality commercial sleds offered are single bar sleds should dismiss the "one bar-two bar" controversy. Of course those sleds are all one side of the blade-only sleds. The...
Some of these bars do have spring plungers rather than rigid adjusters. All spring dependent bars have advantages and disadvantages. WP maybe tipped the balance towards the advantages, but didn't ...
An interesting alternative here is Rigahex--which has one surface with a textured phenolic and the other side smooth. It's meant for truck liners to keep packages from shifting. I have a sheet and...
That feeder weighs 176 pounds, and costs over $3,000. For those without the room and/or money to spare for Darrel's set up, consider this: about 14 pounds and $369 delivered. It'll fit on even a 12"...
Great use of materials and combination of techniques! What machine time was required for the carving?
There are distinct advantages to a fence mounted power feeder. The Unifeeder was awkward, and seemed to rely mostly on adapters made for the unisaw and Rockwell shaper.There was a similar machine...
"The tool drops into place with no fasteners "
That's amazing it can do that with the precision required to joint well. How does it do that? ....very sweet.
Just as resawing requires a fence adjusted for any possible drift angle, so good cross cutting requires the table be aligned to the blade. This sometimes varies from blade to blade, but good carbide...
Stumbled upon this guy's stuff, and realized if I hadn't seen it before, not many people have,--which is too bad, as it's a nicely designed, useful system.
I actually called the owner to see if...
These guys make a 1/8" collet for your Bosch for under $25. The money saved by getting 1/8" shank bits on Ebay by the ten pack will pay for that pretty quickly. And there other 1/8" shank bits that...
Frank, you're familiar with this show? Does it draw a crowd? Do you know if this is it's first year back after COVID?
I have two woodworking products I'm looking to sell (a small power feeder, and...
The film was worth seeing, and I recommend Netflix's "Race" about Jesse Owens '36 Olympic performances as a follow-up.
John Ten Eyk gives really helpful info above about feed speeds that are possible with the right saw and blade. But other saws and blades, in my experience and perusal of most YT resaw videos, shows...
Resaw feed rate is dependent upon many factors. With my little 14" Delta it is, as you say, torturously slow. Low tension, low power, small blade. But for my larger saw with a 1.3 tpi carbide blade...
Tall featherboards like John's and the BOW one solve the hold in problem, but for best results consistent feed speed helps a lot. For much resawing, the ideal speed is tortuously slow, and I find it...
In case saving $3500 has some appeal....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpzjkb01jPM&list=PLytURR_ilfek9mW1MYKWkKRuZ1e7S3WYe&index=13&t=5s
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Gorilla Glue (or any PU) also works as a lubricant for assembly of very tight joints.
My signature jewelry box joint for many years has been a butterfly splined miter. The tolerances are very very...
I agree. My first year woodworking, I visited a large cabinet shop and saw a guy making a cut this way. I remarked to the company owner about it, and he said something like "that guy has been working...
A Little Proteus power feeder works great for resawing on a small tabled band saw. Weighs about 15 pounds. I'm a little biased I admit. I've never experimented with a roller fence, as I've had great...
It's not difficult or very time consuming to glue strips of 1/16" veneer together to width, especially pieces that short. Use regular wood glue. Use Green 3M tape or "artists tape" from Dick Blick...
In my experience it's hit or miss with this sort of thing. Starting with thinner stock makes it less likely to be a problem. Every cut releases tension--sometimes a lot. You might simply put the...