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Interesting question. It is fairly common to sand with drying oils like linseed or tung, and sometimes part of the stated goal of that is that the slurry of finish and wooddust will fill the pores if...

Looks to me like a square bowl with the sharp corners rounded off. Lathe-turned but the blank was a square, corners are wider than the flat sides so as the bowl form tapers/curves towards the foot...

If you can find out when it was made or which version of it is, that might help inform your decision. As I recall, the first iteration of those had some problems with the electronics and replacement...

We may need more information about how you are presenting the tool to the wood. Is that one of the bent tools or the straight tool? If it is one of the ones with a bend in it, the tool needs to rest...

Thompson tools, like most powdered metal tools are given a cryo treatment as part of the heat treatment process.

This topic comes up fairly often and the general trajectory is that on paper the...

Curious to see the answers here. I have only used scratch free when using a wax top coat, but maybe the thinner/solvent in the oil is enough to allow the oil finish to penetrate into the wood?

Is the tool binding in the kerf of the cut? Fairly common to do deep parting cuts at about 1.5 x the width of the tool, alternating the left side/right side of the cut as you go down to keep the kerf...

My guess is that it is a tool for metal spinning, but not sure.

Rather than filling defects immediately after drying the roughed out blank, I will often turn to final form first, then fill anything that needs it, then level that filled area with card scrapers or...

Does anybody know the measurements of the Jet 1640EVS ways - specifically the size of the gap (I think it is 1 3/4" but not sure) and the thickness of the ways (I think 5/8" but again not sure)? I...

For anyone else looking, googling jim burr hinge salt box got me to what I presume is the tutorial he mentioned all those years ago.

Happens to me too sometimes. One factor may be that part of what you loved about the piece at first wasn't anything intrsinsic to it, but was that feeling that you made it. That creative rush. Once...

With some of the more exotic powdered metals, does anybody know whether the dust remains a composite of the various components or are the particles small enough that some of the non-ferrous (and...

Lots of good advice here. I have found this to be useful as well when trying to understand the potential advantages of powdered metal: http://www.cindydrozda.com/html/ToolSteel.html

Nice one! Even kiln dries lumber dust isn't going up those 2" ports mounted by the guides, though - that was just poor design.

Ever try mounting a nylon brush somewhere inside the cabinet to clean...

This one might be obvious, but I have found it helpful to make sure there is a good contrast between the wood color and the background along with good lighting, especially when the air is near the...