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Oops! I found a decibels rating online at Dynamite Tool. It's 80-85 db. Presumably at 1 m away, as that's how it's usually measured.

Hi Jason,

Where are you shipping it from? Also, have you happened to use one of those handy smart phone soundmeter apps to measure its motor's decibel output at 1 m away? I'm in a townhouse so I...

Thanks Maurice and Tom! I had not realized the machine was usable even without the wheel trued up. I had been thinking that since the blade is always jigged, it would need a perfectly round and...

Hi All,

Earlier this month there was a thread on sharpening methods in which at least one professional, Tom King, wrote favorably about the Wen wet sharpener. At $137 this is a lot more budget...

James and Edward, thanks very much for these points. I'd never even thought of them! The return is some 8 feet down an open hall from my workshop room. In response to James' point about air...

Well, the *air flow* is constant because we leave the fan on all the time. The duty cycle for whether the air is heated or cooled varies from 10 minutes to several weeks depending on the season...

Yes. I should have been clearer in my initial post. I'm primarily worried about different drying rates at the two ends of a workbench, or of a piece of lumber.

Aaron

Hi All,

I'm working on the floor plan for a hand tool shop in my basement, and find myself wondering if there are any rules of thumb regarding how far to keep workbenches (and lumber racks) from...

Already have too many chisels ... Must.resist.somehow.

It might help to list the remaining thickness of the stones, as this would put numbers on how minimally they've been used. Good luck with your sale. --Aaron

Another way to hollow the back besides the angle grinder method is to use a bench grinder. Here's a description:...

I first heard about this as a way to tune the beds of Japanese planes, from the Japanese carpenter Dennis Young (google hotaka kagu). Dennis did, however, do a stint in a British chairmaking shop...

Chairmaker Curtis Buchanan has a video up here where, at about 6:56, he talks about his 2' x 2' carving bench with 150 lbs of sand in it. It looks like it doesn't move while he scorps on it, so I...

Here is the link to hollowing out the back of your chisel with a bench grinder in order to make it easy to flatten it:...

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned carefully using the curved part - the face - of a bench grinder's wheel. Well, someone did describe using it to remove high spots, but the hardest challenge in back...

Back when the Japanese Woodworking listserve was up and going a lot of people complained about Matsumuras chipping easily. I own two and so far they do indeed chip easily, even with a 34 degree...

It's nice to see someone else is also searching for how to use a very small shop space. My one question is how will you saw large pieces in your shop, since your shop diagram makes it look like...

Regarding hogging out a back hollow with a bench grinder and Steve's link above to Tim Manney's blog post about it. I've used this method before and while it's very fast, there's always the danger...

I see that Alaska is right in the middle of a great circle between Shanghai and the east coast of the U.S. Perhaps that's the reason for the shipping company hubs there.

I bought a leather tool roll from - I believe - Highland Woodworking. Put the files I bought from them in it and a month later they had rusted. Usually it takes years for things to rust in my shop....

Well, I've also tried to resaw using an Ulmia bow saw, with mediocre results at best, at least so far. Here's a thought: How about recruiting someone to hold the other end of the bow saw? I suspect...

What sort of stone did Paul Sellers use to achieve his 250 grit edge? I ask because if he used a 250 grit india stone then one could wonder if it cuts finer than a 250 grit waterstone for the same...

Well, certainly not a huge hardship, in the grand scheme of things. Anyway, after reading through everyone's replies I think avoiding the risk factor of trying to saw through the stone wins....

The one place I think the 4k is really indispensible is for back flattening. Otherwise, although many don't use an intermediate stone in the course of regular honing, there are certainly folks who...

Thanks Jim, it's encouraging to hear that maybe I don't need to be quite so careful. Maybe any loose 4k grit on the 8k gets pushed to the side in the first couple of strokes, and then the next...