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Well put Mr. Backer!

you can always use a 1/2" dowel as a dummy gouge until you find the grind you're looking for.

Raccoons and Opossums love persimmons. Sorry for your loss. As John mentioned, the wood has some value and is used for golf clubs and mallets etc....

Glenn Lucas has charts for how to get his grinds with the different makes of jigs... ...

Charles Many thanks for that measurement. Same as mine, so it looks like 3.6mm is the standard thicknesses at the bottom of the U fluted 3/4"...

The dust doesn't care as it's being carried along by the air flow your DC generates. Gravity has very little effect for this particular kind of...

I only learned about the update recently on a Bent's Woodworking video. My original one is missing and I'm using my track saw a lot more now with the...

That looks very nice and is a bit of a how was it done brain challenge. I like contrast and the absence of score lines on the drawer side dovetails....

i suppose the old fashioned steel-jawed bear trap would be out-of-the question . . . . but t'would be tempting . . . . .

Nice first "real" project. You can always put on a coat or two of satin arm-r-seal if you want to tone down the high gloss finish.

Thank you Bill. I have never been told before what those figures mean in real life. Now they make a bit of sense to me, giving me an understandable...

We have dozens of persimmon trees, the native US type, Diospyros virginiana, also called White Ebony or American Ebony. I never heard of Asian...

Surprised no one has asked, is it something you might rather pass along to a production outfit? Granted it is for a friend, but quite a few...

I have a lightly used MiniMax 20 bandsaw with the Laguna Driftmaster fence installed. I live in Florida. Do you have a use for the saw as well as the...

Completed the rest of the resaws...but, since these 3 are a bit shorter...used a different vise, The one on the end of the bench,, Had to watch...

My Cousin near Sand Diego says there are commercial avacado rustlers who take loaded bins at night with forklifts and semi trucks. Ranchers do not...

I think the LEO is saying you can set up a camera so it has a good view of license plates and faces regardless of the camera being on public property...

Mark - Yes, they do! I have a Milwaukee 5625. It's a beast for sure. They don't seem to be around all that much though. Like just about everything...

We can build fences in Wintertime. When the ground gets wet late in the Fall, it stays wet until hot weather gets here. When I was building our...

Why not use hand tools? Rasps, chisels, and good layout ought to work. Mike

I would suggest that you and the neighbors cruise the farmers markets. If you see anyone selling persimmons just casually mention what has happened...

Follow up on the steady rest I posted a few weeks ago, This is a video of the first run. This is also my next project. I started this in the spring...

How much work do you do with sheet goods? Personally, I'd go with a longer slider. While I rarely work with sheet goods, when I do I wish I had the...

It might work in the sand with minimal rocks at my current property. At my previous property I had so many rocks and tree roots I went through three...

The joinery looks great. The finish looks good from the pics. I wish my first pieces looked as good! Well done.