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A shed is a poor way to start drying lumber. You need a lot of air flow to prevent mold.

One issue I see with the cutting board crowd is that they often use the Quick-Grip style clamps. Those clamps don't provide enough clamping pressure for a quality panel. If that is your case, buy...

Technically, the box stores sell kiln dried construction lumber. That means 19%. What you want is kiln dried furniture grade lumber, that means 6-8%. The last time I used construction lumber, I...

I doubt if the local lumber yard marks materials up 100%. There would be more lumber yards around if they made that kind of profit. There are also middlemen. Nearly everything in the lumber yard...

I'll use a cheap bit for an unusual pattern, but I buy quality for straight bits. You get what you pay for.

Lathe switches filling with sawdust is a super common problem. Secondly, the manufacturers use cheap switches.

Wood moves when it dries and it moves every spring and winter from atmospheric changes. It is a law of nature.

A well set up scientific test is not minutiae. Have you even seen the article? Are you suggesting we don't even have to use clamps at all in our work?

Fine Woodworking did a test on those numbers a few years ago and confirmed high pressure was needed. PVA glue needs to get in the pores to reach the max strength.

How often has anyone had a power failure and then have a machine start up again to put them in danger? It hasn't happened to me in my 52 years of woodworking. I don't stay in the shop when power is...

None of those chisels look like 4 pounders, so I'm safe.

I sure can't figure out the problem looking at those photos.

Stanley #74 would have been the answer, my knees and back ache just thinking about hand planing a floor.

I just told you, it's my favorite after 39 years of turning. You can register your thumb in a valley between lobes and you get a better grip with less effort.

That's a 6" jointer right? 3/4 hp should be more than enough. Just how much material are you trying to remove in one pass? Making an extra pass would be a lot cheaper than a new motor!

This article pretty much covers all that can be wrong with log which will give you unstable lumber....

Originally it would have been done with hand planes

Sending the board through the planer in the proper direction is far more important that feed speed. Feed speed is just about cuts per inch for a smoother look, but it does little to change tear out,...

The tri-lobe by Hannes Tool

I'd think an old horizontal mill with a vise on the bed would work well. They don't bring much money as most prefer a knee mill. $800 for this good example....

I knew there would be a "slick" discussion, but the rules of the contest were quite nondescript. LOL

Carpenter’s Slick

A carpenter’s slick is a type of chisel used with two hands to pare long...

16 1/8" long with no handle, 3 3/8" wide, and weighs 4.0 pounds
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I've hollow ground for over 50 years.

I meant the 90 degree elbow and the 2" shop vac hose adapter. My model 100 was old enough that it had no factory chip collector, just a deflector. So almost all the early models had to have some kind...

I like the casters better than choking down the chip shroud like that. Run some 11" wide poplar through there and the shroud will be full.