When my granddaughter was a baby, we found a set of magnetic locks for cupboard doors. The latch mounts inside, and a magnet operates it through the door. Our doors were 15/16ths ash and the...
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When my granddaughter was a baby, we found a set of magnetic locks for cupboard doors. The latch mounts inside, and a magnet operates it through the door. Our doors were 15/16ths ash and the...
As a way to cut the number of times I have to drag out and empty the dust collector bag on a 1 HP single bag collector, I decided to add an ashcan pre-collector. I built the collector from a...
Fifty or sixty years ago, the Bruce company made an "Oak Floor Filler and Sealer." It was applied with a mop, then buffed into the floor with a 15" buffer and brush. When this was done, the room...
Contact Shawn Flemming on Maui. She is an exquisite furniture builder who has on occasion harvested some pretty nice wood.
There is a pretty fair sized Harbor Freight in Minneapolis. You can see a lot of the catalog goods on the shelf.
Koa on Oahu
Congratulations, happy to have you coming for vacation.
Now, on to koa--Winkler Wood Products (check phone book) is a new,almost only koa dealer. Jorma Winkler stocks both solids and really fine...
Hi! I, too, wired my 230 on the ceiling. For...
Hi! I, too, wired my 230 on the ceiling. For my bandsaw and lathe, I made a 3' extension cord with the same fittings as I used in the ceiling outlets. That allows me to plug in the extension,...
Sorry, your respondent was not a woodworker. Not all craft items are koa; many are monkeypod or other acacias.
Eric,
If you were looking at finely made art, it is almost all real koa. If you were looking at $6.00 salad bowls, the wood is most likely monkey pod. It is hard to control the really...
Five years ago I made a desk of Silky Oak. Nice, normal Green&Green style.
I still have the desk, but had to put in a fully piped dust extraction system, 3 HP collector, and still barely managed to...
John Stinson has the right idea. Put a couple of longish 2 x 4s or 2 x6s inboard of the sander's feet, on the pallet. Lever or jack thes up about 8" holding the ends of each board on solid...
I have that model jet. While trying to resaw hardwoods, I burned out the original motor, and drew smoke from the replacement. Jet would not replace that one. I substituted a 3 HP 1800 RPM Baldor...
Pete,
I have laid a thousand feet or so of lemon gum flooring, and built a set of cabinets. It is my favorite semi-tropical wood.
The wood is heavy, and when cured, so hard that you can drop a...
A bit too much for a Hawaii resident to believe!
AHA! Finally something I can use to show off all my math homework. First, let's get a couple of items clear--to get the use rights to a piece of land in Hawaii, particularly for many years, be...
Hi I have the HF floor nailer and have installed about 1700sf of flooring with it. My wood was Eucalyptus Citriodora, a very, very hard wood, compared to Oak. I found that the staples furnished...
Thanks, Greg for naming the step key. When I needed the name, it was not at my fingertips.
I will be chasing down the folks at Loctite products to determine how now to clean unhardened thread...
Has anywone used Locktite Thread Sealer lately?
HI!
Last month the setscrew in the fan blade of my Woodcraft 3hp cyclone dust collector came out, the key fell out of the keyway and blew around in the fan housing, and the machine quit. I finally...
Mr Esppinoza. You should get your container quote from a freight forwarder in your area. We have three ocean carriers--Horizon and Matson the largest. The freight forwarders make their income...
Problem sometimes behind the shower plate!
Sorry about your water problem. One source of this in older homes is the plate around the shower valve. Many of these have a foam seal on the back. The foam deteriorates over a decade or so, and...
Marvelous, clean design, Julie! The only problem with platform beds is that they get heavy when all put together!
Hi! As I was reading the sequence posts on the Griz. sliding table saw, it struck me as both most unusual, and most rewarding, that the president of Grizzley took the time to clarify a piece of...
Ryan,
I had a Stihl 290 Farm Boss, which I managed to ruin by using it for ripping tropical hardwoods. On that model the crancase was a rigid plastic, and little things like stess and cracks caused...
Carbide bandsaw blaces
Bob, can you tell me where one might buy a carbide blade in Idaho? My blade cost $158 with a 20% discount in Honolulu..I'd like to have an alternate dealer.