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Hickory has a big color difference between heart and sapwood.

Charring is another way to color wood. Stain is likely your best method.

Rich --
Say you get the magnets perfectly mounted on the doors. That is, you've got the doors sticking together so tightly that "I can't pull them apart without having to pry them". Do you...

If you have a 10” circular saw, you can use it to cut the slab. Use a straightedge to guide the saw. You can use the edge of a sheet of plywood as a straightedge. It is straight enough to be the edge...

I use magnets on doors quite a bit. The important thing is that the magnets must touch. A gap drastically reduces the force. So for your job, a good depth stop is essential. My best depth stop is on...

Putting two pulls on a wide drawer is common, but it causes a problem. If somebody pulls on only one handle, the drawer box may rack, or the drawer may rack against the casework. A single pull in the...

A bead of hot-melt glue will tie the bottom to the sides and front quite securely. Make sure to square up the drawer before you apply the glue.

Right now, you're depending on getting the fence set firmly and accurately against the end of the board. If you don't get it done right, that might explain your results. Festool actually...

To completely cover the 3/4" cabinet side, you need what Blum calls a 110+ hinge. The 110 is the opening degree. The + means it can provide an overlay of 19mm (3/4"). If what you have bought...

Is your door overlay? If so, how much overlay do you want? And are you using the 0mm hinge plates? The answers to those questions are involved in determining the bore distance (the 5mm number...

I'm not following your design. But it seems like you're inventing a complex electricity-based solution for a problem which designers solved for decades without electricity. Look up drawing table...

Don’t remove the drywall. Just back the cabinet up to the wall. If you’re obsessive, you can build the cabinet so you can scribe it to fit any wall curve. Or, for easier installation, nail on a small...

.02” of snipe for three inches, on the end of a big long plank?! I understand that could be aggravating, but I wouldn’t bother taking the planks somewhere to take it out. I’d sand it out, or hand...

Aaron, I don't understand what you're trying to do. You say you have have one fixed panel. Which one is it - left, middle, or right?

Many successful pieces of furniture have joints which are like you describe. For instance, look at any wood door. The grain direction for the rails is horizontal, and the grain direction for the...

Before I’d guess it is a bad thermal overload device, I’d look pretty carefully at the power cord and the connectors on both ends. In general, connectors are more likely to fail than devices which...

Yeah, you should be okay.

You might post a close-up of your proposed joinery.

For a while, there was a circular saw blade intended to cut curves. It was shaped kinda like a triangle. Here's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ-P4ngnj8w

To my eye, the ambering of oil-based varnish has a big effect on maple, but not as much on dark woods like mahogany. Sure, it does change mahogany, but to me not as noticeably as maple.

Andrew's post leads to another thought, or maybe its the same one. Maybe your floor is not flat, so the saw is rocking - more than it is vibrating. With the power off, try rocking the saw. If...

Your bandsaw vibrates like crazy. That’s not right. I’d track that down, and fix it.

If I understand you, you're going to fill the opening with sheet goods. If you do that, aren't you using just the first 4 feet of the container, and leave the rest of the container empty?

The...

Maybe you’re too far from the workpiece? For waterborne in my HVLP, I aim for 6-8 inches.

Ounce is a weight -- something you could measure with your scale. Fluid ounce is a measure of volume. System 3 should be clear about which they mean.

You might consider changing the half-lap joints to this. You dado the sides of the stretcher so that it has shoulders to lean against the upright. This gives a lot more resistance to racking than a...

You could use any waterborne acrylic clear finish, and tint it with white universal colorant. Mixol offers small units. Cal-tint makes 16-oz jugs. That’s what house painters buy.