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    Dave Anderson NH

    Time for some levity

    Thread Starter: Dave Anderson NH

    With all of the negativity and political stuff going on with the Covid-19 virus it is time to look at the humorous side of things. Feel free to add more, but keep it clean or it will be deleted.

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    Kory Watson

    Help me choose a shaper from 3 options.

    Thread Starter: Kory Watson

    I love making windows and doors in my free time, this is my hobby. I eventually want to do timber framing too. A shaper is an important part of making the above, and I want to upgrade. Background: My current machine is a Jet JWS-25CS (3HP, up to 3/4 spindle) I need support for a 1 1/4''...

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    Joel Gelman

    Holtey plane blades I do not need

    Thread Starter: Joel Gelman

    I was able to purchase 2 used Holtey Planes (earlier 98 series smoothers, not low angle) for an incredibly low price. The owner died. With the planes came 2 other blades that were not for those planes and I just stored them away. I am now on a mission to improve the performance of these fancy...

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    steven c newman

    A Design Problem

    Thread Starter: steven c newman

    In a Master ( and only) Bathroom in the house...where all the wood cabinets are real wood...with raised panel doors.....these are to be changed over next.. Butt jointed corners, surrounding flat, plywood panels...20 coats+ of white paint ( Lead?) was supposed to be 4 doors here, until someone...

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    stephen thomas

    Toothing planes? practice?

    Thread Starter: stephen thomas

    Something in one of the other handplane posts got me thinking about a subject that has puzzled me. Rigorous experiments by industry and the NFPL show that the best glue joint is between 2 matching smoothly knife planed surfaces. This includes hot hide glue; maybe excepting epoxy. Yet since...

    Last Post By: stephen thomas Yesterday, 11:03 PM Go to last post
    Mark Rainey

    Router table

    Thread Starter: Mark Rainey

    Looking for router table. A couple projects I would like to do call for a lot of simple molding. I am a hobby woodworker partial to hand tools but use machines. I am a slow builder. My moldings have been with wooden molding planes, hand planes and scratch stock. I just picked up a Bosch router....

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    Joe Calhoon

    Martin t17 saw

    The push oil nipples are a pain also. The oiler Martin has are terrible. I splurged for the pump oiler on the T17 but still have the nipples on the T23.

    Joe Calhoon Today, 9:22 AM Go to last post
    Joe Calhoon

    Martin t17 saw

    I remember those shrouds were a pain. I had to fabricate a couple new ones after I ruined them setting everything back in place. The saw collar looks

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    Joel Gelman

    Renovating a table

    Since your marching orders are to keep it as is, cracks and all, and assuming that is from both your son and the daughter you always wanted, and nothing

    Joel Gelman Today, 9:06 AM Go to last post
    stephen thomas

    Old Sunex Drill Press

    Actually this is your model?
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    Says it has MT2, so that part is good. The "12"

    stephen thomas Today, 8:50 AM Go to last post
    stephen thomas

    Old Sunex Drill Press

    The chuck will, spec depending on what chuck is chosen.
    But the "good" Taiwan/chinese DP's have MT taper sockets.
    So the adaptor

    stephen thomas Today, 8:37 AM Go to last post