Cameron Wood
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This table has been outside for 2 1/2 years- Norcal, mostly under an eave but gets wet and pretty full sun. DF, spar varnish, holding up well. ...

Yes, I have that issue. So far I'm suffering through ads, but mostly they can be skipped pretty quick. I may look into paying.

This worked pretty well on a stiff new valve even without glue on the fittings.

Good work. I've had good results removing plugs over screws by driving a drywall screw into the plug. It usually pops it out like that.

Then, for precision and visibility, there's this...

My wife's 4 year old grand nephew lives in the city, and when a car parked blocking their driveway, he wrote a ticket and put it on the car...

Do you want the handle to stay in place, or attach for each use?

I recently dismantled a large armoire- Dutch colonial from Ceylon. Probably over 200 years old, mortise and tenon joinery pinned with tapered pins....

I think he was talking about tenon thickness- "1/2" tenons and mitered where they meet"

I don't think set back 1/8" is typical- lots of variation, but as the rails move in, the tenons get shorter. I would not make the mortises open at...

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

Post #1 shows measuring to the trailing and to the leading sides of the blade. Post #20 says: "I don't use an alignment jig, but using a dial...

So as Doug Garson points out, you are measuring two different things with the DI and the square, and getting two different results.

If that blade was warped 1/16", it would be very obvious.

The butcher block top needs a few more coats, and the legs and stretchers built and painted. Fine tuning the jobsite planer. Scrounged almost 200...

From the Sawstop website: "We recommend a minimum of 350 CFM (PCS/CNS) or 400 CFM (ICS) to the 4” port. Even the largest wet/dry vacuums or...

I'm guessing you mean that you have 120v wiring and don't want to change to 240v. It seems pretty standard for new SS owners to have an oops event...

The delivery truck will have a pallet jack, otherwise how would they get it off their truck? Usually they will put it where you want in the...

I made one like that, but had to cut the overhanging ends off because I kept tipping the stool by standing there. I like the handle hole.

Shown here, 21:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iL1aAz65rE

All narrow crown staples. panels are 3/8" plywood, bottom is between the sides.

Make a clean cut and trace the outline onto paper, but a scriber also works OK if it is in place. Something that old usually has a lot of paint...

Then there is the less known fact that block planes are for planing blocks i.e. end grain butcher blocks.

The tool came with all the goodies- knife setting jig, sharpening jig, spare knives, spare bolts to hold the knives on, wrench, but the metal case...

I agree with this, except for the ever-present Swiss Army knife, and I carry a Gerber multitool, which is used almost 100% as one hand operable...

A combination of feeling grumpy, and contributing to our mutual entertainment. You come here looking for something to read and think about, right?

Yeah, add Bosch tools to the list. Probably a 25% success/satisfaction rate from many of their tools over many years. By far the worst of the...