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If the material is straight and flat, there's no real reason to take off more material prior to your glue-up. If the material has moved since you last milled it, then yes, correcting those issues...

Stephen, the primary avenue for sharing here at SMC is in the appropriate forum discussion area. Your example relative to projects would be to document finished projects and builds in a thread for...

I'm sad you had that experience at your local SW store, Michael. It's certainly not my experience at the three that are local to me. Everyone is well trained and very knowledgeable and they do a...

Yea, some companies have a more general resin focus and some have a specific market. Total Boat, as you can imagine from the name, came from their strong presence in the boat finishing world,...

Total Boat (Jamestown Distributors) focuses on coatings, rather than adhesives. I suggest you pick up a structural epoxy like System Three T-88 or similar for adhesive purposes. That's what I use for...

While I didn't use the SYS-AZ dawers...I made my own equivalent...and agree. Slide them out, open the box and so forth. Lesser used tools are "bottom" of individual short stacks so rarely will a box...

I agree with Jason...go to a real paint store and get their recommendation for your application and area. I personally use SW and for my front door, Emerald Urethane Trim Paint got the nod.

If you like shop built tools, this video is pretty enjoyable...even though it's nearly an hour and a half. Marius Hornberger decided to make an OSS/OBS that was multiple steps above typical...

Ken, my flattening system is from TrueTrac, but yes, there are a number of them commercially available as well as lots of "shop built" solutions. What I bought is USA made by a small business, so...

They make a variety of "tool combinations" already so doing something like this for folks who don't want/don't need/can't have a blade fit into their line perfectly. This is just a "new tool"; it...

Thanks, Michael. It's a satisfying completion of the project.

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I added something to this bench recently that I forgot to mention. Having the grid of 20mm holes for worksupport is both a...

Use an outdoor oil product designed for the purpose, such as Sikkens.

That's really unique, interesting and very functional for the task! Bravo!!

Frank, thanks for the reminder...I've been remiss in posting those photos due to distractions, including four days with a five year old blond tornado staying with us (my grand nephew) when his dad...

Brian, we will have to have a conversation over a beverage about that sometime. :)

Most charcuterie boards don't have "vertical" handles like serving trays do and that's for the reason that Michael just mentioned. For my friend who has me do CNC engraving for resin fill...

Using a laptop on a public WiFi connection is the one time that even I would use a VPN to insure whatever I was typing is encrypted from the device out to the Internet to avoid "man in the middle"...

The one with the most building action around here is called "Pete's Car Wash". I suspect that this kind of business lends itself to owners adding locations by putting profits from existing locations...

The projects I have lined up and potentially lined up for this year will give me some indication if making the investment in improving my DP performance would be worth it or not. So I remain happy to...

Oh, I didn't mean to imply anything disparaging about putting a $400 high quality chuck on a DP that originally cost similar money two decades ago. It's just an ironic thing. The same DP today is...

I find this idea very interesting, especially the one piece version for simplicity and presumably reduced risk of runout. I just have to somehow get past the idea of the chuck costing as much as I...

This is totally a subjective thing, Tom, both for personal preferences around organization as well as functionally how we use our tools. So you are not "missing anything". It's just a choice.

I've...

Maple can take dye nicely if you want to provide some "embedded" color in addition to the toning that various shellacs will impart. You should obviously test with scrap of the same material...

Be sure you post about that command change in the Vectric forum so it can be addressed by Vectric staff.

Tom, have you tried Parts Pronto which is part of the SCM website? You have to register, but that's the parts and manuals part of the company.