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Adam, I have been using fabric dye for several years on my turnings. To begin with, I tried rubbing it on, spray bottle, etc. I never had any good success until I got a big steel bowl and mixed...

I live on central Vancouver Island. Been here for 28 years, most winters have very little snow. Years can go by and I don't even start the snow blower. But man, did we make up for it this week. We...

When I first got my 8" bench grinder, it vibrated and bounced so bad that I feared it slide off the bench. I was even using a Norton stone, which I nearly wrecked when I would try to sharpen my...

Thanks for the replies, gentlemen. Ron, would you have a chunk that I could turn a pipe bowl from? Say, 2" X 2" X 2". If you are interested in selling a piece, I'd be interested in buying it.
Garth

Just wondering if, by chance, anyone knows of wood supplier in the Port Angeles area that I can check with to see if they carry some briar. I'm going to spend a few days in the area next week. Thanks.

David, your thread links to a notion I've noodled around for several years. Are North Americans fairly easy to spook? I think about this relative to terrorism. If we are easy to spook, we can be...

I'm old enough (just barely) to remember the polio epidemic back in the 1950s. In the small rural community where I lived, I think several people contracted the disease, including a cousin down the...

We installed composite quartz in our kitchen two years ago. I don't think the discussion should centre around quartz vs granite, but around composite versus natural stone. I would never have natural...

Dan, I have the General Maxi, about 10 years old. Mine has set screws to hold the pulleys on the shafting. Not a good set up as the screws slipped on me. Mind you, this was in the early days of...

After I went to the metal handle for bowl gouges, things improved a lot. Aside from being a lot easier to hold on to for a guy with big hands, I thought it was less dangerous as well. The counter...

Hi Bill,
I'm pretty new to Sawmill Creek myself, and I'm not a frequent poster. But I remember you from years ago on the old Canadian site, and from time to time wondered what became of you. Are...

Blotchy outcomes were a problem for me when I wanted to dye bowls. That is, until I tried dipping the bowls in a bucket (or large metal bowl). The dye is absorbed evenly. I use fabric dye because the...

In Manitoba, when I was knee high to a grasshopper, our phone number was 301 ring 21 the actual ring was two longs and a short. It was a favorite past-time for rubbernecks to listen in on the party...

I think you need to be careful with the assumption that trusses are built primarily to create clear spans. They are also designed to carry load weight on the roof. Depending on how wide the span is,...

The bad boys seemed to ramped up their game this year. Back in March I got an email from my service provider saying that my web mail account was about to be purged for inactivity. To stop the purge,...

Brian, there is a "rule of thumb" that applies here (some posters have already mentioned it directly or alluded to it, so I'm just chiming in). Don't over-build for the area where the house is...

Man, you've got to preserve that somehow. I assume it is split wood, since it was in the woodpile? Should be another half somewhere in the woodpile.

Yes, don't wait. Rough turn it now before it even starts drying. Leave about 3/4 to 1" thick for drying after the rough turn. How big is "nice sized"?

The reader forums in the papers up here had a lot of comments by people who I hope never encounter a bear. Many thought it was just a young, curious bear. They have no idea how single minded bears...

A rule of thumb that I use is that price is generally 10 times what it was in 1970 (I'm in Canada). A $3000 car then would $30,000 now, and my first house that cost $35,000 would be $350,000 now. Of...

Bill, that is one gorgeous, unique bowl.

I gotta think that frequency / volume / etc figures into this somehow. Does the study make a distinction between people who use solvents infrequently (like a hobbyist) and people who are regularly...

Rob,
I went to power sanding a couple of years ago. I got a right angle inexpensive drill and bought two different size pads ... one 3" and one 1.5" (approx). Sanding discs come in 80 grit through...

A few months ago I just had started roughing out a 14" yellow cedar bowl and popped the tenon off. I then cut about a 3" by 1/2" deep recess for my Oneway chuck and it worked fine.

Done Harold.