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Hello Boris! I have a cousin in Ljubljana! I had big trouble with hand planes until I took a class on hand tool woodworking. The planes were nothing special ( they were bevel down with a cap...

I like to have a second bench or table opposite the workspace. All the tools for the active project are there right behind me, ready at hand but not in the way. ( as long as I remember to put them...

Thanks Dave. i'm near clinton, nj.

wow fantastic advice, thank you all! yes making and finishing are two different jobs, i'll look into that kind of sander as well. I just returned from home depot, lowes, and tractor supply and i...

hey all. i had a black and decker plastic bodied belt sander for a while, and the bearings are shot. thing was never quiet but now it's screaming in agony. so i need to replace it. what are your...

It is a sandviken no 270

Any idea the value? And any comments on evaporust?

I've got an old saw that has some sort of emblem or logo on the saw blade, but it is too rusty to tell what it is. What's the best way to clean this and get it legible? Would evaporust help or hurt?

Bill, I have found that evaporust works, and vinegar does not.
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So I was out garage sailing and found a Cummins lathe 350 watt and brought it home.

No idea if I'm going to like turning, or what I'm going to make with it. Yet.

I don't want to drop a lot of...

Hello all. I've really been getting interested in this, and have assembled some tools, and am looking for like-minded folk to get together, teach and learn from. The rough stool I made from a log...

Which is better, the 722 or the 722A? What's the difference?

It's turned, so it is sort of a cylinder but the top is larger diameter than the bottom

thanks chris. i'll give that a go. how do i get the hole to be in line with the length of the leg? it's round and shaped...

so i've got this nice desk and a leg is a bit loose. i took it apart, and what we have is a t-nut into the body of the desk (which is firm) and a rod with machine threads that match the t-nut on one...

Thank you all. My scene: I'm in nj in an old stonewalled cellar. It can get very humid there. Table saw, band saw, jointer. Shop smith (no idea how to work it) and hand tools for which I am...

For a secret door, one of the better ways to do it is have the door pivot on vertical pins,( like the stationary side of a bifold door). The short bit moves in away from the joint-disguising...

Which is better and why? I know some of you wipe down with oily rag after each use. But what about wax?

wow great ideas guys thanks. i'll have to look at the turner's forum, i've not gone beyond this one yet!

so not ever having done this before, but having a log and an axe, I set about to hew a bowl from said log. it's a fair bit more work than expected. though what has me quite chagrined is the cracks...

Patrick Bernardo

had lamented the difficulty in finding wood in his area, being NJ, and that got me thinking. Once you come to the realization that Lowes and Home Depot aren't selling anything...

>fingers in ears<
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it really does seem that there weren't purpose-built tool chests from what we have seen here so far. but i find it difficult to believe that they would just throw their edged tools together in a box...

oo! i got a ray iles mortise chisel!

and Langser's Green Woodworking book (which i've already finished) and Make a Joint Stool from a Tree.

Thanks, Jim it's a great forum. There's a lot of reading to do! This forum is how i even know of any of these brands. Here is the lot of them, well the chisels at least. I've got to get rid of a...

my first set was Sears Craftsman, with clear plastic handles. They were way better than nothing, but I was glad to move on. I started snapping up anything with a socket, only recently learning more...