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Okay everyone I'm back working on my projects. After a very well needed Vacation / Honeymoon cruise to Bermuda & the Bahamas. I continue to cut bend...

That's a bug, not a feature: I already have a transformer, and also need 12VAC for the existing lights. The 12VAC->12VDC widget can be mounted at the...

Oh, I've finished lots of things with Danish oil and similar products, followed by paste wax. They look and feel great. None of them were a dining...

Derek--picture of the threads on the arbor may help. A rule along side the threads for reference makes the picture even more better. When you say...

What about using a weight sensor or scale instead of an optical sensor? There would be some variation depending on chip size and material, but I bet...

haha yep a slider is the ultimate cross cut sled! I appreciate mine every time I use it. Sleds are awesome, but dang mine was heavy.

Also true here. IMHO a miter gauge is fine for small stuff. I trust my sleds implicitly and my joinery always goes together without the need for...

Then I'm the Sultan of Silly. At last count I have 7 sleds. If any of them disappeared in a sled heist, I'd be making a replacement immediately. ...

I just had a 3x6" piece i needed to cut in half. Would have liked it to be dead square, but no way I was going to do it on a tablesaw without support...

I call it that as well or the food thrift store. Bill D

Better late than never John, Welcome to the Creek. Sometimes when folks are looking through posts from a decade are more in the past they forget...

The one Howard posted is less money and includes the transformer and rectifier in one sealed package. Bill D. ...

A spline in the miter helps with that. A biscuit can be viewed as an easily created interrupted spline.

That's interesting, I've never thought about using scoring for lumber. Then again, I don't think I've ever had an issue with chipping on the bottom...

Late last night...slipped back to the shop....and... This will be either the front, or the back of the box...haven't decided..yet... Today's...

It's good to pay attention to the time stamp if there is one. Sometimes what radar feeds show is what happened a few minutes ago, not what's...

A crosscut sled has distinct advantages over a miter gauge, in my experience. I keep a small sled (30" wide X 16" deep) hanging next to my (very...

I have a full shop so I can saw any way that's needed. I left these all about 12 to 18 inches long with some smaller pieces and one piece at 24...

Admittedly I haven't checked that one lately: we started feeding The Tiny Thing Of Evil all dry food a month or two back. She seems to like it...or...

I'm a little late to the party, but when I built my bench I used concrete nails because I couldn't get regular cut nails. I predrilled and...

I have a very large crosscut sled that I use all the time. Can't imagine working without it. Made with 5-cut method. Weighs a ton, but store it...

I did order another milwaukee trim router and that one did come with 2 baseplates. I don't remember getting 2 with the first one I purchased but I...

There was a Fancy Feast cat food drought for a while here - we were getting concerned about what to feed our little fuss-pots because the shelves...

I had the same problem - solved it by cutting a small rectangle of sturdy plastic from a plastic bottle. Piece I cut was about 3/8" by 3/4"...

A bit of kit that may prove useful in the future...looks like it was actually intended for this situation. Bookmarked. Thanks.

For boxes and other small items I highly recommend cutting some of the log sections up into smaller blanks, seal at least the end grain, and put them...

Another option is to just engrave their names.

I loathe making jigs and shopmade stuff to make furniture when that jig/shopmade stuff is commercially available. When forced to make a jig, i try to...

I switched out one of my Avid tables to Centroid Acorn controller with Centroid CNC12 software. It was quite a job, but worth the effort. David

I think like most things, there are advantages with either approach. I use an Osborne miter gauge on occasion but, maybe due to the nature of the...