West System products can be found fairly widely at suppliers like West Marine, but generally your best bet is online. There are a lot of specialized...
To be fair, uf adhesives are not marketed as waterproof or for boatbuilding uses exposed to severe moisture cycling. Can you describe the typical uf...
I will point out that West System generally recommends wetting out surfaces with unmodified mixed resin for best adhesion prior to adding thickeners...
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...
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."