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I live on an island in Puget sound and don't get out much (by choice), but a trip to Seattle ALWAYS includes a trip to Woodcraft and Rockler, as well as a Borders or Barnes & Noble. I call it "doing...

I've used the radio shack version that transmits over electrical lines with good effect in the past. Now I use a FRC radio system - a base unit that's wall mounted in the shop, and two handhelds in...

I've been amused that most ER's stock and use a product called Dermabond for closing small wounds in areas like scalps that are difficult to suture or bandage. After noticing the distinctive odor of...

I'm an ER nurse with over thirty years experience in field EMS and search and rescue, as well helicopter ambulance operations. I've never seen a commercially made first aid kit that was worth the...

I agree that buying tools intending to return them is unethical (Can anyone tell me the difference between unethical and immoral?). Even if a company's policy allows such behavior, it still adds to...

Thanks all for the replies, I agree that I have two major problems:

1. The glue: either it's too old or too cold. I'll try with some other form of carpentry glue and see if I get better...

I picked up several Mango planks while in Hawaii on vacation a few months ago, and I'm attempting to make some picture frames for some of our vacation photos. Mango is a very pretty wood, with...

Thanks for the responses, and the advice. Sounds like my idle musings of making it big in the engraving business are probably just that - idle musings. Rodney, I appreciated the suggestion to...

Hi all, I've been on SMC for awhile as a hobby woodworker and have just moseyed over to the engravers forum for a visit. My wife and I have been considering various ways to make our hobbies pay as...

Dave, In that case - SCOOOOOORE! good for you for doing the due diligence to make sure it's all on the up and up.

Great find for you, and a pretty generous friend to boot! But consider whether all the facts are straight. Do you truly have permission from the owner to take the wood, and does he/she know the...

For those of you interested in my attempts to teach wood shop classes to home schooled kids - thanks for your interest and the notes you've sent. I appreciate the encouraging words.

We took...

I've had this happen twice on my DW 734 (same mechanism I think) and hadn't thought about heat. In both case I grabbed a Dremel tool with a cutoff wheel and spent about 20" cutting away the head of...

I rebuilt my kitchen including all new cabinets and doors with some fairly basic tools. Tablesaw for cutting all the plywood for cabinet boxes and Kreg pocket hole system for joining the box parts...

OOPS - sorry bout that. I just saw the note about this thread being several years old. Don't mean to fan the SS flame wars.....

Frank,
Welcome to the Creek and the ongoing saga/debate about SawStops. I'm a hobbyist who bought the SawStop contractor's version about a year ago and I'm very happy with it. no problems with...

Sure go ahead

Then at least you can update the phrase "Due to what constitutes the single most moronic thing I have done in at least 10 years, ..."

Whatever you already did won't seem quite...

I have the lumber Wizard III and have had no problems with it even when scanning old pallet wood. I calibrated it pretty tight when I first got it and have not had to adjust it at all since (about a...

sure, sure That all makes sense. Now where's my board stretcher????

Seriously Steve, thanks for chiming in and trying to explain electrical concepts to a bunch of sawdust production engineers. ...

Actually I am truly blessed in that the LOML doesn't have any expensive vices (like shoes). She was just delighted to go in the art supply store and indulge her passion at about 1/10th the cost of...

I haven't tried them out myself, but here's a couplea guys on Whidbey Island with sawmills:

http://www.sawmillservice.com/

http://www.sawmillservice.com/

Oc course there's always Crosscut...

SACRILEGE!!!! Go wash your mouth out with soap!

nooo...... I think that's what they mean by saying "It's got nice figure".

Forgive me for I have sinned..... Took a trip into Seattle today and went into Cross Cut Hardwoods and drooled over all the beautiful pieces of wood, then actually left WITHOUT BUYING ANY OF...

I've noticed the same thing, and had the same concerns about just how deep the cut in my finger needs to be for the brake to fire. I asked SS about it and they said something about my finger tip...