I also asked the same question. I went with the Wen and PowerTec track. The ends of the track weren't square so I trued them up with my chop saw
The general consensus in the threads is yes a track...
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I also asked the same question. I went with the Wen and PowerTec track. The ends of the track weren't square so I trued them up with my chop saw
The general consensus in the threads is yes a track...
Magnolia core? Tulip poplar is in the magnolia family
Poplar as in Aspen or tulip poplar? If it was tulip polar the center would have some color
Spalted is a fancy word for starting to decay. My experience with spalted is that the wood becomes...
Have you heard this quip?
" My biggest fear is that I'll die and my wife will sell my tools for what I told her I paid for them"
Sorry for the pictures, I haven't figured out how to rotate images on this site
I bought 4000 bdft of tie siding. Random widths of 3" to 17" most of the boards were about 9' long. The wood was 99% beech, the sawmill owner set the wood aside for us. we cut the boards into 4"...
Pin oak is a red oak. Pin oak makes good firewood, lumber. Too many knots
I'll buy spalted maple
How about the Navy?
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Black locus is an early colonizer of cleared land. It grows in clumps and stands from root spreading almost like a weed. It's a fast growing tree. 6" to 8" trees are common 12" trees aren't rare....
Awesome your self-made solid wood table sitting on the ikea table it will replace
I love QS wood. Oak, beech, cherry, sycamore. Don't get much though my Sawyer has a woodmizer and doesn't do QS
I was pleasantly surprised to see lots of old Popular Woodworking being actively bid on at an estate auction.
Thanks, I was wondering about that
Same thing happened to me. Get a DeWalt.
There's that old quote about buying cheap tools often
I agree and I speak from experience
I had my local sharpener sharpen everything including $7 framing blades. Because $0.25/tooth is hard to beat and her got them sharper than new. He moved to Arcanum 30 miles away, bummer.
I can do...
I'm still going forward with the beech flooring. Costs are about 100% more than I first thought but I hope to have flooring for less than $3/sqft.
I have my uncle telling me that 6 inch flooring...
Looks like I learned something today 😉
FAS first and seconds? I thought it was Face and Side
Scott that's a lot to think about. Either you've done it before or you did the math then went to lumber liquidators. Thanks
You're right. But my dentist has prefinished wood floors. But I'll keep that option in mind
They do center heart cut. They also use big wood , 24" and bigger.
We'd be using a Grizzly 20" planer with a helix cutter and a 5hp Oliver table saw
The House will be heated and air conditioned....
We can buy bundles of cut offs from a rail road tie Mill. 1000 bdft bundles off mixed species for $200. By the time you sort out the culls and other wood it's closer to $0.40 bdft. $0.25 to have...
This spring I asked for some advice for a project the guys were working on at the fire house. They even followed some of the advice given. Here's the finished table
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I think the steel has gotten a little better