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According to Wille Sundqvist in the book "Swedish Carving Techniques" wood should be cut in the fall or early winter, when the sap is down, for carving bowls and spoons. If the ends are sealed...

My dad built a similar gantry back in the late 40's to pull engines from the diesel trucks he worked on. Justification: When I'm not using it the kid can use it for a swing. It worked with my mom,...

From my old (60'S) toolroom days, meehanite was the choice for jigs and fixtures because of its low warpage (the manufacturing process distributes the carbon granules evenly through the iron) and its...

The old military way was to get about a mile from any source of flame, and use gasoline. I won't even go into the hazards involved, but it worked on several hundred m1 Garands I was stuck with. For...

Most modern washing machines have a 1/2 horse reversible motor buried down there amongst the gear casing etc. These motors are strong, reversible, and typically two speed (one for wash, one for spin...

Here in the hills, all that fancy screwin' and such is a little too complicated for a country boy. What we do is wad up a bunch of newspaper ad shove it in the hole, making sure it is bigger than the...

Nakashima's work is beautiful. But. The effete young gentleman doing the narration didn't know the the difference between burl and stumpwood. Seems a shame to have someone like that describing a...

Warren Cutlery started out in business making tools for the shoe and leather industries. To the best of my knowledge, all of their tool/handle things are made in house. Their prices are excellent,...

Rick at Littleshavers.com will sharpen (and I mean sharpen) any carving tool for 2 bucks a pop. Response time is excellent and I have never heard anything bad about his establishment. No, I have no...

A lot of washing machines use a 2 speed motor. 1 for regular, the other for spin cycle. The slower speed was very useful for me when I rebuilt my Dad's 1948 vintage Craftsman Jigsaw. With the lower...

any work area in fresno has to be shaded, a metal handle left in the sun there can literally fry your hand in a few minutes. humidity is very low. most of your existing furniture will be subject to...

you remember how our dad's shop felt, and smelled? Part of that charm came for not having to wear hearing protection and face msks to get the nasty dusty litlle dust particles out of the air that...

A croze is a kinda router plane that is used to cut the notches for the top and bottom of the barrel. Used cross grained.

I am in the process of getting back into white cooperage. Butter churns, cedar buckets, ale tankards, etc. have most of the tools I need already, with the exceptions of a small travisher, and a...

People on this forum seem to think only Biesmeyer makes after market fences. I agree with your choice of a Vega. The one I have been using for the last 20 years gives me .010 to .015 repeatability...

Nice work Kyle! Next time open one of the drawers so we can see inside. I especially like the tapered finials on the two end panels. Gives it a custom look without being fussy. Kudos!

Any suggestions on what to use for a mallet used with a froe? I do a lot of green woodworking, and my froe is my friend. I used to use one made from live oak, but it got lost in a move. :mad:

Gee, I sure would like to be able to comment on how good Griz' customer service is, but the 1023 Ive had for the last 20+ years has never needed any. Just now getting it set up after a move back to...

Your sander should have come with a metal plate with sharp studs that just fits the bottom of the sander and punches the suction holes. Mine has worked fine that way for the last 20 years :D

ROFLMAO!!! You may want to treat it with something to keep kids and mice away :D

My daddy always sed a little piece of ash never hurt nobody :D

I had a friend in the wine business in northern calif. he remembered the days when the journeyman cooper would arrive at his father's winery, and set up to repair barrels, kegs, vats etc. They would...

Hi from rainy Oreygun:cool:

Pretty much the same as I do every day since I retired EXCEPT I'm doing it in my newly created (from an oversized single car garage) shop. Getting a GP workbench built along one wall, and finally...

Press is the easy part, and you can use a HF hydraulic jack for the press mechanism. What are you going to use as a crusher/grinder/pulper to get the apples ready for the press? That is the thing...