Bob Jones 5443
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Call me nuts but a second 12" cut with a piece of paper against the fence sounds the least taxing overall.

Wobble? Sounds scary. How about using a shim for the second cut? I have a set of plastic shims 5" by 20" in fourteen thicknesses from 0.0005" to...

Only a few passes of a 3x3x12 block over the jointer. The block came out smooth with no tearout. (And for spellcheck fans, no tarot either.)

The Annals of Oops continues.

Derek, the only message the eye will read across those three drawer fronts is the story in the matched grain across the width. The fix is inspired. ...

Router fences are fun to make. You can start with an example of one you like, and then take out stuff you don’t like and add in things you wish the...

Yes, and it’s doubly true of power tools. Everything’s 2x what I paid. I dread one of the machines ever failing on me.

By skewed I mean that it is straight, but not parallel to the blade and miter slots. The adjustment is two screws where the fence clamps down onto...

Are you saying the fence is skewed or warped? That fence can be adjusted left or right at the cam connection.

Too true, Jim. By comparison, the red frame looks inviting! It took the stratospheric Blue Spruce price to nudge me off the fence. It always goes...

I used two 24x72” IKEA beech countertop slabs, each made by laminating strips to simulate quarter sawing. I fused them together as David Bassett...

“Ultimate” indeed. At that price, the Blue Spruce fret saw will be the last tool you can afford.

On close examination, I see the difference in the blades: Coping: 0.094" wide, 0.020" thick Fret: 0.048" wide, 0.015" thick I suppose the KC...

OK, now I've had a chance to nestle in with a single malt and this tome of yours. The story stick and the 1/4" thin sides raise a question that...

Derek, that's one for my Dovetail folder. I've copied both posts in full and pasted them into a Pages file for later study. Twenty-seven pages....

Sorry, Tom. That was me with the wrong information. I saw Bill’s interest and assumed he’d end up with it. Thanks for setting the record straight,...

A shop-made edge is the only one you can count on to be clean, smooth, straight, crisp, and square. I also like to do a preliminary scoring run with...

Nice. Pristine. You'll enjoy that one. Type 16, as Jim K. said, was a transitional era that brought Stanley up to the war. It was the first with...

Looks like Tom Bussey's might be gobbled up –– no surprise. He's a rare one. So in keeping with that, you want to buy a vintage Stanley from a...

Love the Creek.

No surprise here: only admiration for Ron and Rob, and thoughts about what our craft would ever do without them.

Dave, you have me confused with someone else. Hulk, maybe? My boy is 26: all growed up. The legs are on locking hinges at their tops, at...

The pencil holder is my favorite shop accessory. My son made it in middle school. It is now the one tool I have not found a place for off the bench.

Yes, it flips up. It’s over 200 pounds, so I have a carabiner at the end of a 7:1 block and tackle bolted to a wall stud, and a 3/8” eye ring bolted...

Clifford, one of the lights, the smaller profile one, came from Amazon: Next LED Cree. ...

Now that is sweet.

Guys, sorry about the bench shot. No one-upmanship intended. What you don’t see is that I moved over to the table saw half a cubic foot of cutoff...

You're painting, right? Why wouldn't Purebond work? Rabbets and glue should be fine, or pocket screws as advised by Mark. That is to say, I...