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You can get Mohawk Finishes "Shellac Reducer" which says on the can that it is a denatured alcohol "blend". The SDS states that the "reducer" is a blend of ethanol, butanol, and propanol. I picked...

You will get little consensus because there's no "right way." You will be tempted to buy lots of gear without fully knowing when or even if you'll use it. So I would strongly recommended buying as...

That's actually how I learned to start a cut, but I was in grade school and the saws were as lonh as my leg.

If I pay attention, and use the first inch which lacks the set, the saw starts well. After that the the teeth with set widen the kerf so there is no friction. My main trouble is a life time habit I...

I've acquired several over the years. I bought a new one 30 (!!!) years ago, then inherited three more that needed serious refurbishing. They are all plier type. You can find them fairly cheap at...

I've heard - salt, grain - that augers for soft woods have a coarser threaded lead screw that breaks of the wood fiber less. Hard woods conversely have finer threads, but I can't say that I have...

Thanks. I've heard about relaxing the rake before, but this looked deliberate so I began to wonder. When I put a ruler to it, the exact inch with no set was a surprise. But, I my curiousity was up...

I just found and bought a steel backed, Disston and Sons steel backed saw, 14 TPI. The blade is 12 inches long and 3 1/2 inches wide. It was a flea market bargain. The most noteworthy aspect was...

Thanks for all the suggestions. So far none of the suggestions have worked sad to say. The other nuts are frozen to the bolts, and the bolts turn freely. I've tried heat, epoxying a nut onto the...

If you have a table saw, you can adhere cut sander belts to the surface to flatten a plane. The only things that is a nuisance is making sure that there's no adhesive on the table afterward. ...

Thanks to all of you who responded. I was reluctant to remove the handle at all, but while the blade as pretty nice, it had been accumulating crud for years in the garage it came from. The area...

I was extremely lucky and picked up a J D Darlington backsaw from an estate sale. The saw is sweet and cuts true, but needs to be sharpened. I've managed to remove the medallion and from the patent...

Unlike waterstones that cut better with a slurry developed, oil stones, well mine anyway, seem to work better with a clean surface. After several years of doing things the way my dad did, I tried...

A lot of the cast-iron framed 14-inch saws are made in China and are very nearly identical regardless of branding. I have a Rigid that will accept Grizzly and Shop Fox accessories for instance. The...

Rewiring a house can be a real puzzle palace experience. My own place was built in 1929 and had the original knob-and-tube insulators and some very scary, crumbling old sheathing on the wiring. We...

Misalignment will have a very definite effect on drift, as will blade tension. I use a RIGID BS14002 and find that after changing a blade, I have to carefully alignment the blade on the crown of the...

Joe, there are really only a few likely causes of what you describe. If the stock you use has been jointed on the edge to the fence and flattened on the face to the table, and the sawblade is...

Usually, if the riving knife is properly set up, very rarely will you need to remove it. The top should not extend above the blade so even when the cut is not a through cut, you can leave it in...