I just prefer to have an excellent tool, if I can afford it. My only Starretts are a 24” straightedge and a 12” combo square with 45° fixture. I sat in wait for a sale price on the former, and I...
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I just prefer to have an excellent tool, if I can afford it. My only Starretts are a 24” straightedge and a 12” combo square with 45° fixture. I sat in wait for a sale price on the former, and I...
No aspersions meant to PE firms, but I’m glad I already own my Starrett tools.
Bill, I’m happy for you and glad you celebrated your return to the shop with a thread here! I’ve taken more than a few long breaks, and it’s always great to get back in there. It’s a wonderful...
I’m building doors and drawer fronts with hard white maple. Not much figure at all, just a wave here and there. Maybe that’s the difference: my boards are planing easily, and the result is mirror...
This is my situation. I don’t need any more planes, chisels, or machines. It’s all consumables now, or project-driven needs. I just spent $4 - $500 on Blum hinges, drawer slides, tongue and groove...
When I lived on the Peninsula (Bay Area), I’d drive over to Woodcraft whenever I needed anything. In those days I was building out my shop, so I bought a fair number of things. They moved to about...
I suppose my method is an outlier. I have four 1x10 pine boards, about 36” long. To each, I attached a 1” pine strip along one end, as a hook. To the other I hinged two little spindly 34” 1x3s. The...
I can’t seem to copy the Amazon link with my iPad, but this little gem has worked well for me when I want to “have a little fun” at the sharpening table:
Carson MicroBrite Plus 60x-120x LED...
It’s time for a respectful but direct email (can’t reach him by phone, always a bad sign at the outset!). Tell him you and others are discussing his shoddy service on Sawmill Creek, and unless your...
I like your plane till. Mine is of a very similar design, right down to the brass screws and the tote notch under the smaller planes. But mine is against the wall and fully vertical, so I needed...
I’m an extremely low-output hobbyist woodworker, which is why you don’t see me step in on these threads. But in the past week I had a burst of production. I milled the door and drawer frame parts and...
Thanks, Jim.
I'm not sure how good a chronicler I am, but I can describe the process I went through to bring this project to like. (Maybe that's the same thing.)
I'll try to make time for it...
I’ve taken on the task of building a breakfast bar for our new backyard cottage. It’s my first bona fide kitchen cabinet project. I’ve been planning it for weeks, and I’ve had the maple since...
Dave, you’re right. I haven’t yet milled the wood, so I don’t have a lot of test parts. I’ll make some half-inch boards and a new riser block and see how it goes. If it’s fussy, I’ll go by the...
i don’t know. He was unusually chippy about his defense of pocket holes in that video.
I’m new to using a coping jig. Today I ran my first part in the Rockler coping jig, with the tongue part of Freud 99-036 tongue & groove bit set.
All I can say is thank goodness for my...
Yep, this will be about test test test.
But I’m not sure I followed your analysis.
Stumpy says so.
https://youtu.be/-jW8YynwsDc?si=b1t7ULPnMZhlbedz
I confess before the forum that I am about to make maple drawer boxes using Kreg screws at the corners. <gasp>
I'll put the screw holes on the outsides of the front and back parts, and I'll have...
I use the 5-to-6 adapter on mine and it's worked fine for years.
Thanks.
Anyway, those racks are an elegant and space-saving way to store the squares.
Clever rack.
Do you run a woodworking school? How many squares can you use on a project?
I remember when I was in junior high school, as it was called then (1970), my science teacher prepared us for America's imminent switch to metric, which would surely come to pass within the next few...
I emphatically second John C. Cox's wisdom.
Also, to Roger Wiegand's post, once you work side by side with someone who has mastered a SIMPLE method (any simple method), you become a lifelong...
I'm with you. I've decided against getting the rotating base. I have mine on a tray with a 3/4" lip. I just spin the machine in the tray when I want to turn it. The tray is easy to clean.
I...