Mahogany = open grain = needs grain filler.
I recently painted some red oak, because that is what I had on hand for the job, and I filled the grain with "setting type" joint compound. This is the...
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Mahogany = open grain = needs grain filler.
I recently painted some red oak, because that is what I had on hand for the job, and I filled the grain with "setting type" joint compound. This is the...
Thanks for the response Ethan.
I was able to take a look at the panels this afternoon and I was also able to completely peel off the 2 layers of poly. The painted panels look like they were never...
I'm relatively new to spraying finishes. I got some pigmented spray lacquer, Target EM6500. I also got some 9000 poly at the recommendation of Target. I added 2-3% of the crosslinker, also at the...
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I'm starting the research phase of making my kitchen cabinet...
ok, so I changed the title to make it a little less sensationalist. I also went down this morning and remeasured the dip - I had remembered 0.010", but it's actually 0.022". That is pretty good...
My guess is the previous owner did nothing to the table. The dip is at the very end of the table right where the blade kerf is cut in the table. My guess is a lot of MM bandsaws suffer from this...
The blade is a Lenox Woodmaster CT and it had not cut much, so it was essentially new. I paid $50 to have it extended to an incorrect length b/c Minimax is unable to properly label the saw. Now I...
ok, so a few months ago I picked up a used Minimax MM24 bandsaw. This particular saw was manufactured about 5-6 years ago, so it's fairly new. I had been thinking about buying one and this one came...
I just adjusted mine last week.
I agree Joe Woodworker is complicating this thing.
I took two scraps of wood about 2" tall, that I knew to be identical (run it through your planer).
I lowered the...
Pat-
I'm having trouble selling myself on the idea too. I'd give up miter slots and other nice router table accessories.
Truth be told, I'd rather have a big slab of cast iron to mount my router...
I recently had engineered stone installed in my kitchen and I had them save me the sink cut out. I'd like to use it as my router top without an insert, but this requires me to make a 3" cutout for...
I doubt your Jet can properly tension a resaw king. Then you are asking your guides to do a lot of work and relying on perfect bandsaw alignment and a super sharp blade. Also your feed rate will...
Terry-
I hadn't bothered to look up my screws until you asked. I bought them at McFeelys and they are 7x50mm. So 70mm is substantially longer than that! Those things are going to be beasts. Do...
I have used confirmats in plywood for shop things and they hold really, really tight. For fun I tried to strip the threads in the ply with my impact driver and was unable to do it, unlike a more...
I just ordered that stuff about a week ago. I can tell you that the belt fabric is much tougher than AO. It took more effort to cut it for the wrap.
Once on the machine is does quite well as long...
I just went through this myself since my original wrap on my 22-44 was feeling a lot more like writing paper then sandpaper.
At the advice of some here, I ordered 50 yd rolls of Zirconia 80grit, AO...
I layed down about 2000 sq ft of 1/2 ply over 3/4 plank subflooring (old house). I removed all the nails from the plank flooring and replaced them with screws. Then I put one big tube of glue down...
The only person I have found online that prefers the K4 was a Kreg sales guy. That should tell you something. I think Kreg discovered they could make the thing for $5 less by using the straight...
You might get an even deeper contrast if you apply some orangy-brown dye. I am sort of experimenting with this now - looks like Dark Vintage Maple from homesteadfinishing might be the ticket.
If you do them on the tablesaw, setup a 1/4 dado and get the fence set so the dado is pretty close to the center. Run the board through twice - once with each face against the fence. Featherboards...
Get a Kreg Master kit if you don't have that.
I run a drum sander with either 100 or 120 paper (can't remember which). Nonetheless, it leaves some pretty good tracks in the wood which I sand out with my random orbit sander. I usually have to...
So last week I got excited for some reason and built a finger joint jig for my tablesaw. It's the kind that has the wooden key to reference the slot cut by the blade (as opposed to the kind of jig...
I applied some boiled linseed oil and didn't wipe it well enough in a few small areas, so those spots are sticky.
What's my best remedy for this?
I make my ZCIs for my tablesaw out of gray pvc. Works great, but I find over time the slot widens slightly (not sure why really as I don't make abusive cuts where the blade would be getting wrenched...