How to bend wood like this - Outdoor furniture project

Looking for a new project to do. I've been spending a few months upgrading the workshop / fixing minor annoyances, and really need to actually build something. I ran across this in a magazine ad. The furniture is supposedly solid teak, though I don't think that will be in the cards for...

California bans the SALE of gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers after 2024

Saw a sign at hoe despot and looked it up. California has banned the sale of gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers after 2024. If yours is getting tired better buy a new one in a few months. I assume they will be gone from stores by Fall. It will probably take ten to twenty years until this ban goes...

Dining room carver chairs - Take 2

About a month ago I began a thread about designing and building two carver chairs to accompany the 6 bentwood chairs we have owned for the past 40 years. The chairs were purchased all those years ago along with a table, which is around 200 years old. We need a larger table, and time has come to...

Left lane

Lord, give me patience and understanding for those folks that drive needlessly in the left lane. Amen

Lumber supply

Has been restocked.. Bought 10 planks...for $30...had to cut a few of the 10 footers down, to fit into the Trunk of my Chevy Equinox... Eight 1 x 6 x 6' Five 1 x 4 x 6' And he threw in a stack of shorts And a 3/4" x 8" x 39" slab..

Itching to buy a new tool? What tools have you wasted money on?

One of those sitting at the computer in the morning with a cup of coffee itching to buy a new tool ... So I come across this Veritas Scraper Burnisher for Turners and looked at a few videos reviews of it and thought why not. After reading a few reviews posted on this forum I later realized it was...

Help me figure out where I'm going wrong

You don't have any friends with 12" or 16" jointers?
I'm serious.
OTOH, people may often not appreciate how rapidly you can flatten

Google AI, Not ready for prime time

This is an email I received this morning. I use firefox browser

Hello Edward,

Building code for shop in California?

I have done it several times in different jurisdictions, and have always found the building/planning departments to be helpful. Go in with a sketch of

computer chip evolution

Right, but ARM and other RISC machines are proprietary, RISC V is not, it's open source. China and other countries have learned about proprietary goods

Left lane

I-80 in Pennsylvania was reputed to have the same issue some years ago. I haven't heard anything about it lately so maybe it was fixed or maybe people