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Drove to town, (about an 8 hour round trip drive), and picked up a bunch of construction material, including a mess of oak. Yesterday evening I got the first window trimmed out in our addition. I...

I second the EMT. One thing I wish I'd done in my shop was put the outlets at 54 inches instead of 48 like I did. The higher outlets would let you lean plywood against the wall underneath the...

I'd second, (or third), going 100 amp. Although 60 should really be fine for a 1 person shop as noted by somebody else, I think it's a good idea to overbuild the electrical capacity in case your...

I'm looking to pick up a drill press soon. Up here in the wilds of Alaska my options are pretty limited. At the store I can drive to in a reasonable amount of time, (4 hours), my best option is the...

I feel your pain. It can be hard to get stuff shipped to Alaska as well, and we're a freakin state! Apparently writing the state abbreviation "AK" is too much for many companies to get their heads...

My only complaint on the foam brushes is that they tend to start to lose small bits of the tips on bigger projects or with sticky materials. Other than that I like the way they lay down material.

Here are some inside shots:

The floor heat is running off of a on demand water heater. I used a glycol solution that should be burst-proof down to -70 or so to help me sleep easier if I'm out of...

I've got a Toyostove OM 180 on demand oil heater running the floor heat. Last winter I used about 100 gallons of fuel oil from when I got the heater running to mid-summer. Not too bad considering I...

Yeah, thick gravel here, so no permafrost thankfully

I'm in Tok. It's about as cold a place as you can get when it hits the extremes.

I'll just drag my bandsaw over to the door and get a picture of a Grizzly looking out of the window.

I just finished up the electrical on my garage/shop. It's been a long/expensive process, but I'm pretty happy with it. The building is 32x24 with 10' ceilings. I live in a place where it gets...

I just finished the electrical in my 24x32 garage/shop. I ran in conduit every 4 feet along the walls with 110, with each wall having it's own 20A circuit, and separate circuits for lights, garage...

Used would be great, but Alaska is a beast of it's own. I could wait a year and still never see a decent dust collector come up on craigslist within a 4 hour drive of where I am.

I'm thinking I'm...

Thanks for the feedback and the link.

I've recently finished the construction of a garage/shop. I'm starting to put together the shop side of the building, and want to get a dust collector as my next tool. The trouble is, I'm in rural...

I used to just buff mine when I was a science teacher. The tops are a chemically resistant composite block, (at least for the good ones), and shouldn't be coated with anything ideally. I've seen...

Thanks for the feedback everybody. Replacing it with oak isn't an option. It's an old sign that's being restored. With the nice light redwood the thing weighs a good 150 pounds. I can't imagine...

I'm working on refurbishing an outdoor redwood park sign in central Alaska. The sign will be exposed to a range of 90 above and constant sun in the summer to 70+ below in the winter.

I'm going...

Thanks for the reply Scott. I'm actually out in rural Alaska where we have no building codes, inspectors, or thankfully... property tax. Even though I don't need to have it pass inspection I want...

I'm working on finishing off the electrical in the garage/shop I built last summer. I've pulled two 220 circuits with 4 wires of 8 gauge THHN, (Red, Black, White, and Green), through 3/4 EMT conduit...

Great news! Grizzly apparently saw the post here about the shipping issue, called me and we worked out how to get it to my place with a lift gate truck for even less money than I was originally...

This is getting harder and harder... Grizzly will only ship in Alaska with a single company... who the local freight agency doesn't have a contract with. I assume they have an exclusivity agreement...

Two votes for each... dang. I was hoping this would end up being an easy decision.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that there aren't more options here. I could get a few different sorts of 14" band saws if I wanted them, but the Jet is the only larger option locally. It's a real pain...