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I'm glad to hear the quality of the Cabinet Masters are still good. I have the older ones with the wooden handle. PHM

Unless you have an extensive collection of dyes and tints, if John and Jim are right and it takes a mix of several dyes and tints, it could get...

Nice tractor, you'll have lots of fun "working" with it. I'm jealous of y'all with front end loaders. I make do with a rear end loader aka "pond...

thats just a flesh wound. What Mell said dont bottom, what andrew said align the wrench offsets so you can sqeeze or I often put one wrench on and...

Sounds good. I've so far had 2 other people email me with some cool design ideas worth exploring.

squeeze the wrenches together..

Yeah, a great source of knowledge....

What is your budget? I personally think Oneida is the bees knees. On my opinion a dust collector is the most important tool in the shop. For your...

John, absolutely fascinating. I have always planned on doing a tall clock case, but never before considered tackling the mechanism . . . until now...

I have a large PC 7518 in my router table. I just take the wrenches, break the collet nut loose and then using a wrench I tap lightly on the collet...

I should mention the shoe shelf is TBD, to be decided. I don't have enough wide plank to do that. I could glue up some more narrow Beech, but I...

Sure, I'll do your Google for you, took me 20 seconds. ...

Pretty good progress today. I got just about all my chores done to be ready to go back to work on Monday. I got all the stock rough cut to...

There is a better way. Muscle Chuck saved my knuckles. The PC 7518 in my table was a PITA to change bits on. I installed a Muscle Chuck and couldn’t...

Collet is independent of the cutter. There has to be some clearance between the depth of the collet and the shank bottoming out. If the shank is...

I am having fun, thanks. It's possible to make clock gears by hand with nothing more than a bandsaw or scroll saw. There are several videos and...

I use rubber blocks on the bottom of outdoor legs. Pieces of bungie cord, fastened with bronze boat nails, work quite well.

This is an island and counter+back splash I made and installed. I used lumbercore with 1/16” cross banding and 1/8” face veneer. 1” or so of matching...

Milwaukee routers have an extremely deep hole. I slip the O-ring around the router bit shaft instead for these routers.

When you put a bit into a router, push it all the way down. Then pull it up, off the bottom, one eighth of an inch. Then tighten. That will assure...

Best way to prevent legs on a chair or table outside from absorbing water is to prevent the bottom of the leg from touching the ground. Saturating...

I had my 30 watt universal tube done by Evergreen several years ago. They had an ebay listing that I used. They did a 2 week turnaround and with a...

When you put a bit into a router, push it all the way down. Then pull it up, off the bottom, one eighth of an inch. Then tighten. That will assure...

You’re not wrong, and I have the same conclusions as you. That said, this forum is filled with DIY and field experts with “know how” and enough self...

AZ Carbide teardrop scrapper are the best I’ve used on an articulating hollowing device.

As long as all three motors are similar rpm, hp, and amps should be fine. You will have to turn off the vfd before switching to a different motor or...

Mine too, immediately after I had the first one in my hands.

today was a prime example of why I need this. A number of issues with my net provider server at times me being a beta tester. Many emails to exec...