Mel Fulks
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Agree with Warren. Some don’t like big PCs because they think they are too heavy, and they might be for their routine work. They are not for 1/4...

White oak will be fine. Not red oak.

While I don't move as fast as I used to... One thing that bothered me about the cabinet saw was the dust collection was pretty poor. Even with...

The one who pays the bills has the authority/gravitas to call the shots Well, we are pretty popular in Ukraine !

I’ve forgotten what causes it ,but it was just phantom continuous distortion pattern.

“We will control the vertical, we will control the horizontal “. I do remember hearing that different TV shows would often be filmed on the same...

We are main defense of the free world . To be the leader of the free world we will have to re-assert that we will not keep paying all the bills.

I’m impressed with the precision. Years ago I helped a friend make a board and I wondered how the squares could vary in size in spite of our...

The book I got my shellac info from is “Shellac It’s Origins and Uses”. Found it in a local library, there is one on line for $100. Shellac was ...

The common garden snails in California were imported from France Interesting to look up the sex life of a slug. Yes, but use a book , the...

Given a choice between eating a slug and getting one temporarily lodged in some personal fleshy blubber....most would go with the blubber. And...

The black is ,I think, is the usual shop preferrence. The galvanized tend to slip a little more .

I’m not a turner ,but I’ve used a lot of shellac. Years ago everyone had a can of shellac....for years, before using it all. It has to be fresh....

Mike, I generally agree. The Russians were and are big propagandists. They started shaping their story early and there was little push -back. When...

Kevin, I agree. Back to back panels are for panels that need to be flush with door frame or even thicker ( often called “off-set panels”). For your...

Scott, thank you. That is a trick that goes way back and was shown to me about 50 years ago. I worked in a shop that had one of those ...

Yes, there is a lot of similitude, but computers copy each other. Saves a lot of money on advertising, tv used to be full of car ads.

Looks good ! You can’t go wrong when you listen to us ! Just follow with the grain ,and on the 2 straight grain ends ,I would round them over a...

After making it, did you use the pattern template on both boards?

Rona, I thank you for your kindness.....and please tell your friends that the movie rights are for sale !!

Tim, you don’t say what you are trying to do. The fastest cutting bit is a 1/2 “ diameter single flute .

Gregg, A fine and needed rant ! We are building big piles of ephemera. P.S. I said that out loud and someone walking by yelled “yeah! F ...

I have both the 150/3 & 150/5 and use them in tandem. The 150/5 handles grits from 120 on down. Any grits over 120 gets the 150/3. It's worked...

Frederick, sometimes those things are used to fix the end of a bumpy piece of moulding that would be tossed...if you had anymore. When using them on...

I just put a number of blobs .

I have never seen the need for routine kerfs. If some of the stuff gets gets too curled up before install, then kerfs can help.

OK ! The layout is pretty good. But, if you have enough wood...I suggest getting the grain more parallel, and getting rid of as much of the sap...

You can certainly choose a course and see where it takes you. For some years ahead there will be stubborn dumbbells who won’t hire people who can’t...