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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.
Last Post By: Kev Williams Today, 5:43 PM

Paint booth fan?
Thread Starter: Leigh Betsch
I am converting my downdraft sanding table to a duel purpose downdraft/paint booth. Basically I have a 3'x5' downdraft bench on wheels with an old furnace blower to draw the sanding dust thru the table and out thru furnace filters. With my sander hooked to my Festool dust extractor, it does a...
Last Post By: Leigh Betsch Yesterday, 8:04 PM

Help Me Pick a Plow Plane or Is It a Plough Plane
Thread Starter: Thomas McCurnin
Typical use will be on 3/4 to 7/8" stock planing on edge for a a 1/4" groove about 3/8" deep for frame and panel construction. I'll also be using it for grooving a post, usually about 1.5" x 1.5" is typical, again to accept a panel for frame and panel construction. It needs to go both directions,...
Last Post By: Derek Cohen Today, 1:55 AM

Build a Shaker Style Table Project
Thread Starter: steven c newman
Had those planks of Ash....four at 7/8" x 5-1/2" x 77" and one at 7/8" x 5-1/2" x 48"......and figured I could try to build a Shaker Style Table, complete with a drawer....I remember way back when, during the New Yankee Workshop days, that Norm built such a table. Have to go strictly by memory,...
Last Post By: John Kananis Today, 12:52 AM

Restoring a de Havilland Mosquito
Thread Starter: Kris Cook
There is a pretty neat article in the Jan/Feb issue of Popular Mechanics about restoring a Mosquito. For those unfamiliar with this airplane it was constructed almost entirely from wood. Fuselage was a 5/8" thick sandwich of plywood and balsa!! That, combined with two RR Merlins made it a...
Last Post By: Maurice Mcmurry Today, 9:08 AM

Solid Walnut bookshelf dados - is glue enough?
Thread Starter: Bill Brammer
Building 6 ft high, 28 in wide, 12 inch deep solid 3/4 inch walnut bookshelf , no adjustable shelves. I have dados for all shelves. The sides are a little bowed, requiring some pressure with clamps to pull them together with the dados. Not a ton, but some. I'm trying to decide if I need to add...
Last Post By: Derek Meyer Today, 6:39 PM

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Cost effectiveness of a slider vs. tracksaw & tablesaw

Health issues are important as anyone older will tell you and the one health issue often forgotten in production work in the long term is dust control.
Chris Parks Today, 7:58 PM

Anyone have experience with Sheds Unlimited?

They can go quite large and will do custom sizes. You have to contact them for details. Community member Glenn Bradley has one (https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread....ght=Tough+Shed
Jim Becker Today, 7:57 PM

ID & advice - Robland slider

John, Robland is part of the Martin USA group now, not Laguna.
Jim Becker Today, 7:54 PM

Cost effectiveness of a slider vs. tracksaw & tablesaw

John, it's not necessarily the bits, although typical sheet goods cutouts are done full depth with compression tooling in production shops, often .375"
Jim Becker Today, 7:51 PM

Cost effectiveness of a slider vs. tracksaw & tablesaw

The majority of cabinet work has moved to CNC in the industry at this point...it's not really niche like it was a decade ago for smaller shops. It's a
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