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I never stopped loving cherry! I hadn't realized it had gone out of style. I did all cherry trim (with birdseye maple accents) in our current house and it must have been that downturn that made it...

Back in the '60's "leakproof" batteries became a thing for old-fashioned acid containing batteries. The companies would replace the device that got wrecked by the melting battery. I wonder if any of...

I trust that was Hank Sr.!

I just watched the Steve Allen bicycle segment last night (unrelated to this thread) and thought it was beyond hilarious. "Q How long have you been playing the bicycle? A. Two weeks" My respect for...

I happened by chance into Exotic Lumber in Annapolis MA. An astonishing collection of (huge!) burls and what looked like most of the ebony in north America. Quite a range of other "exotic woods" as...

In the usual order I try things: "wicked shaap" (as we say in Boston) tools and _very_ light cut -- hone your gouge after sharpening, both inside and out; shear scraping or a negative rake scraper...

The only fix I've ever done that works long term is to pull them apart, clean up the mortises and tenons and re-glue, adding back material with a thin piece of veneer as needed, or in more extreme...

I've done it for many years without concerns or problems. I don't ever enter sensitive information on an unsecured site (eg use only ones that start HTTPS), and now I use Apple Pay on line so that my...

Incredibly unlikely that if you've done all the work on the up and up (eg with permits) and paid them what they asked for that they can come after you later on. You've done what's required to inform...

If you can draw the part in an appropriate graphics program there are a range of rubber-like polymers that could be used to 3D print it....

Fortunately I have a big hayloft to store the empty systainers because I can't bear to throw them away.

Quarter inch Azek board caulked to exclude water at the joint and screwed in place would do the trick nicely.

Try calling them and asking-- the owner has answered the phone on occasion when I've called and been extremely helpful.

I was traveling for most of the month so only got to try the FSD on a couple short trips. I thought it was a really impressive proof of principle. Worked way better than I expected and vastly better...

We're being invaded by asian jumping worms in the northeast. They destroy the forest leaf mulch layer resulting in loss of both many plant and insect species that depend on it. While almost none of...

I'm aware of only three car washes within a 10 mile radius of my house and none being built. Not aware of any associated with gas stations, and none of the self-serve pressure wash places that seem...

McMaster offers a couple different sizes and styles. Ones for sticking in a sheep (mutton?) are probably big. :D (sorry, couldn't resist)

if you negotiate the document fee to zero you should have no surprise when some other line in the bill increases by that ~$500. What both you and the dealer should actually care about is the total...

Just a very beginning carver here, so I do what my teacher tells me to do-- which is honing freehand on a leather wheel charged with a green buffing compound. He has a grinder that he will use to...

120 to 150K miles on the ICE cars, 30-40K miles in my F350 that gets driven fully loaded-- 24,500 lbs, often in hilly country. I've touched the brakes maybe three times in the first year of owning...

OK, I get it. Just trying to figure out what I did that was wrong, especially since I went to the trouble of getting a non-paywalled link so that people could read it. It appears quite mysterious if...

I recently posted a new thread containing a link to a newspaper article about impending rule making with respect to table saw safety features in consumer products that I found interesting and highly...

AFAIK, metal boxes need their own ground, independent of the grounding on the outlet. Typically done with a pigtail that is screwed to the box and than wire nutted with the ground wire coming into...

Steel wool after it's dry!

My first use of RM was on our curly maple kitchen island, which gets seriously used and abused (though not cut directly on)-- lots of water, foods that stain, and black iron stains from my pans and...