Yesterday I stopped by a job my son is working on in a neighboring town, repairing damaged trusses on an 1870 era brick meeting house. Missing slates...
If you feel you need to bricklay and pattern-rout stacked layers in order to get an accurate curve I suggest keeping the thickness down and use 3 or...
Forget pattern routing. Do the joinery and assembly, then saw the parts out as accurately as possible and clean up the faces. In my shop I would use...
If you already sold the client on a profile a custom cutter set may be required. I recently had a pair of corrugated back shaper knives and a coping...
Mel, can you get poplar that is primarily heartwood? I have never seen it come that way in these parts. I worked on a large house trimmed outside in...
Absolutely. If you make closely fitted drawers of lumber acclimated to 50-60% rh and put them in a consistent 40% rh atmosphere you're likely to have...
I would make it a bit deeper or make it up as a torsion box. One thing I ran into with my 4' x 8' frame press was the 2" x 2" birch top frame bowing...
I use a sled for tenoning/coping on my shaper with a stop screwed to the fence. Once the work clears the short stop it has no contact with the fence...
I'm not sure what your first question means. If I needed to shim the front out 3mm at one side I would use a 3mm shim strip at the front corner and a...
I would want to see it in action. If in good shape it should serve well, if not it could be an expensive pain in the neck. Things to look at would be...
40 years in the trade, freelance cabinet and furniture maker, still eager to learn. "I don't feel like an old man, I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."