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Glen, Those are beautiful ! I see them as Tea Caddys, precious casks for precious tea, which in earlier days was always locked and often
kept in locked cabinet. I find the knobs a bit too...

Years ago “rub bearing “ was only used for non ball bearing (often shop made), wooden “bearings “….coated with bees wax. I’ve used them,
but that was a while back !

Lisa, glad you are back.

Took me a minute to remember….”mid century modern”….without seeing “rabbet ears” ! I think it was seeing the “horizontal hold needs
adjustment “ (on the drawer fronts) that tipped me off. ...

. Scott, I posted that point here once. Thanks for your efforts to stop “acridnyms “ , I coined that because when I see lists of nuttiness my
eyes burn.

Well, I just now noticed that in the “original detail” pic the vertical bar and and bottom rail don’t even have the same profile. So I think it was never right .

You could make wooden “fingers”. Angled board with saw cuts making each about 3/16ths wide. Clamp to fence.

Or use screws if you use a wooden fence

The more wood working secrets you have to impart , the more free labor you can get ! Here’s one: “ Yes, that’s a block plane ,but I don’t
‘wanna see no sandpaper on the sole ! The SOLE use of a...

At last real wood has beaten the wildest faux-finish-fakes !! Now it’s time to sell that design to a laminate manufacturer ! James Bond
would ,for once say “stirred…not shaken “.

On a job I heard a guy complain about a router bit moving. Asked him if he had inserted the bit all the way ,and then backed it out an 1/8th.
He said he had not, and had “never heard of that”. He...

Agree with Mitch. And it’s a pretty steep stair. Newel post is interesting, and the painted rail might be the work of someone who didn’t like
mahogany or walnut. Certainly it should have a new...

Hot hide glue for veneering was thin . Stop the vicious cycle of too viscous glue.

The corners are rounded . Not just too heavily loaded with paint ,but really rounded . Looks like they could have even been made with a
router and not real joints. In California sun-shine they...

I don’t like carbide knives for use on wood. They are not as sharp as steel, but are good for woods with a lot of silica ,and for plastic and
even aluminum.

That’s a good looking machine ! Been years since I’ve used one of those. They have a nice feature in that each full revolution of the Big
Wheel moves infeed table 1/8th inch ,put a paint ring on...

The knives are probably lowest grade. I would buy M2 or T1 steel, do not accept stuff described as having “same hardness as M2 “. Only
high quality knives ….have any “quality”. A two knife...

I’ve seen a lot of falls as people stepped over the integral benches. Sometimes one slim agile person has to get up so that a fat one can get
out, or in. I think that the common plan was probably...

Use a single flute router bit, they cut much faster than the standard two flute bits. Hard to find in stores , so order on line. Should be
a carbide bit for plywood. Steel bits are faster than...

A young John Wayne, Maryln Monroe, Raqel Welch.

Sounds like you need a Pegasus ! And it would take the neighbors minds off messy birds !

Exterior doors sometimes look like they are coming apart at bottom rail. It’s usually just “ compression ring set”. Rain soaks into the raw wood
and swells the stiles. That smushes the wood into...

I’ve glued and clamped , then used dowels. I used 1/2 or 5/8ths dowels, driven through a non -sharp hole in thick scrap steel plate. Dowels
swell with a little water mixed into glue. Too tight...

Really heavy ,beefy furniture ,that photographs like an Impressionist painting for a family of Hobbits. Don’t see many of those ,but I think
this is one of the good ones !

I’ve seen that once in the same machine that was bought used. Most likely the collar that encircles the spindle was not in correct place when
someone changed spindle . You have to tighten it to...

Great day and great story ! But Tom has not given us any tips on ‘Mom- Maintenance’ !