I don't question your experience with poplar heartwood, Mel, but it just isn't available here as such. I have read elsewhere of old growth poplar being quite durable, and we have a meeting house in...
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I don't question your experience with poplar heartwood, Mel, but it just isn't available here as such. I have read elsewhere of old growth poplar being quite durable, and we have a meeting house in...
Mel, can you get poplar that is primarily heartwood? I have never seen it come that way in these parts. I worked on a large house trimmed outside in poplar with a lot of attention to flashing,...
Depends on the width of your stiles. If you want narrow stiles use a stretcher.
I avoid poplar for exterior work as it has little rot resistance. Look around for torrefied wood. Western red cedar,...
Have you considered using air pressure? A section or two of firehose and a caul trapped between a two piece form will supply higher and evenly distributed pressure. Short of that, use cauls and more...
Absolutely. If you make closely fitted drawers of lumber acclimated to 50-60% rh and put them in a consistent 40% rh atmosphere you're likely to have problems. You need to get the mc lower before...
Yes, that's right. I suspect part of the reason (maybe the whole reason) commercial units don't have that problem is because the membranes are typically formed in a box shape and the vertical pleats...
Bill said in his initial post, "My shop is in the garage where the humidity averages 50 to 60 percent." If that is accurate one would expect mc ranging 9-11%. I have similar conditions in my...
I wouldn't do it that way. A true torsion box will have a top and bottom skin to develop full strength and as John said at that scale the skins can be on the order of 1/4" thick. Nominal 1/4" lauan...
I don't quite agree with that if by "moisture check" you mean using an electronic meter or an oven test. Bill knows that his storage conditions are such as to predict that the wood's mc is somewhere...
I would make it a bit deeper or make it up as a torsion box. One thing I ran into with my 4' x 8' frame press was the 2" x 2" birch top frame bowing inward when under vacuum. I solved that by sizing...
Are the drawer sides and/or cabinet dividers flatsawn? The issue may be those parts cupping rather than (unlikely imo) the overall opening size shrinking. In any case the primary cause is the...
I use a sled for tenoning/coping on my shaper with a stop screwed to the fence. Once the work clears the short stop it has no contact with the fence and the alignment is not an issue. Trying to keep...
Not a thing.
Congratulations on getting it sorted out. Now that it's working, don't fix it. Who cares whether the original tires were flat?
I'm not sure what your first question means. If I needed to shim the front out 3mm at one side I would use a 3mm shim strip at the front corner and a 1.5mm strip at the center of the drawer, taped...
Are you saying that the drawer boxes are out of square and the applied drawer fronts are not in plane? If so you have a few options.
Remake the boxes.
Taper the front of each box so it is square...
I would want to see it in action. If in good shape it should serve well, if not it could be an expensive pain in the neck. Things to look at would be contact roller, pressure rollers, pressure bar,...
Seal the ends right away with Anchorseal or diluted yellow glue to inhibit checking.
You can add a sliding jig to the sliding table. See post #27 in this thread. https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?282267-Straight-Line-Rip-on-Tablesaw-w-Feeders/page2 You lose some precision but...
Nicely done. I like the toolbox repurposed as the vfd enclosure. The saw should serve well and last you out.
You sure are centrally dislocated. I have had a similar issue dealt with by sleeving an arbor. It's hard to find a machinist job shop these days. I go to a metal fab shop with some machining...
Best thing I have found is the Crazy Horse dolly. https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?295465-Crazy-Horse-dolly
I lend and borrow tools with people I trust who trust me to take care of them. A fairly short list. It allows us access to a wider range of stuff with a smaller investment. My son has heavy gear for...
It's easy to make a simple thing seem complicated. Bandsaws are about the most basic machines one can find. I've used many through the years from 14" and 20" Deltas and 16"-20" Aggazanis up to a 36"...
Our turning club is adapting a recently deceased member's shop into a teaching /demo center, using his old equipment both from here and his winter Florida shop. There are two Tempest cyclones mounted...