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You'll probably get more replies if you open a new thread for it. I think a lot of people avoid clicking on sharpening threads unless they know there's something specific they can add ahead of time....

Yeah, I did a bunch of research and pulled a lot of ideas from all of the things you guys had posted over the years. I was considering putting a cover, at least partially, over the lower port like...

No, I didn't record before and after results. I wasn't really planning to document it. And I didn't want to measure sawdust or anything. I figured if it wasn't an obvious upgrade that was easily...

Congratulations! And what a deal!

I too was recently looking for a bandsaw and about 75% of what I saw on the used market near me was people asking full retail price for their used models. I...

Keep doing what you're doing. That's why I've always done, and pretty much everyone I know who owns a compressor outside of a commercial setting. It works fine if you're not using the compressor...

I'll post some tomorrow.

Edit: or today, since another reason to back the car out of the garage popped up.

My 17" Grizzly bandsaw makes a lot of dust, but I have no room for a proper dust collector. So, I bought a 1hp portable dust collector, the kind with just a bag attached, and had to remove the...

Some boards will do that. If you get good at reading grain, you can often avoid that (to some extent) at the sawmill by selecting boards with straighter grain that will likely contain less internal...

No. But the hand plane does produce a better surface when taking a shallower cut. That's the thing with adjustable feed speed. Usually, the cutter head speed is constant. So, at 1/2 feed speed,...

Tone is in the fingers!!!

But really, there's some truth to that, that carries over to what we're talking about. For instance, if you can't sharpen a plane iron by hand very well, but can on a...

Taking smaller cuts is the best way to get a clean cut. You can do this by slowing the feed rate on some models, and by taking shallower cuts. Of course, if you have to lower the cutter head speed...

Always flat. But I've bought tools that were hollow ground, and I didn't care enough to change them. I just use them and let them migrate to flat ground over time.

A couple of problems I see with this. One, wood is typically not color fast. So you'll likely loose the image you create in a few years if you're just using wood alone as the color. Two, by...

It's a good idea. Probably more expensive than just buying a commercially available mobile base. But I suppose if you already had the parts on hand, it would be a good use of them. Definitely...

You can push the open time of PVA glues a bit by adding a little bit of water and using them in colder temperatures. It also helps if you can raise the humidity or refrigerate the glue (don't freeze...

I've seen those before. Not in person, mind you. But I think it's just an aesthetic thing. A reason to stand out from all of the other saw makers out there. I can't see much use otherwise.
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I get them off Amazon. You can get a bunch, dirt cheap, and they're already blunted. Plus they usually come with various diameter tips, so you can use them for oiling things, gluing things,...

Most any Baily or Bedrock pattern plane can be made to work well and give consistent and excellent results. The basic design is pretty foolproof. A higher end plane might give you a more...

You can also make your own with blocks of wood. Just make sure to elongate one of the holes to allow for expansion.

There are lots of ways to skin this cat. Figure 8's are just probably the...

I've glued up wood that wasn't touched in years before. And it held fine. So long as it hasn't warped, and you didn't put a finish on it, leave it outside to collect dust and calcium deposits, or...

Quite true. But it all depends on the situation. I'm not a rich man, so a lot of the furniture I've owned wasn't worth holding onto forever. But since I'm not a rich man, it also wasn't worth...

Thinning PVA glue with water works really well. I do it all of the time for various reasons. Sometimes, to get it through the needle of a syringe. Part of the trick with thinned PVA is it absorbs...

Yeah, I'm not a fan of unnecessary complications. And to me, the systainer stuff is an overly complicated problem, disguised as a solution. It takes up too much room and is harder to access than...

I think I will too.

It's gonna take a while to get it set up. It's filthy. So I've got to do a deep cleaning. And there's some repairs I need to do. Plus, I need to run wires for the power...

I found a 17" Grizzly G0513ANV for a great price and picked it up yesterday (8 hours of driving a U-Haul trailer on back roads was no fun). The trunnion was broken, one of the thrust bearings was...