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Guy..........most important element I see is that over the course of this style table that you build, your work keeps getting cleaner and cleaner.

That's a very good article. If you've been at this awhile, much of what you've built is on slides and polaroids and just don't scan and look right. It had to take a special piece to bring in the...

I've purchased from whiteside and had fine results.

http://www.whitesiderouterbits.com/default.html

click catalog - scroll down to dovetail2 .........poke around a bit...(couldn't resist) pun...

This is good work......nice post to enables others to show there years efforts.

Bill:

Jim is on to a very important point.......what kind of woodworking school.

Just building, building what, what form of degree, how much design. Then if you pick design, do you want...

Dennis:..........the picture above of the Delta is what I've used since the late 70's. I've since put it on casters and it's 2 feet away from me when fitting doors and drawers. An absolutely...

Paul:

Just a few thoughts on an approach............

1. rather than purcahse 12/4 quilted maple, why not purchase commercial quilted maple veneer and a maple backer and with a ridgid glue,...

Chris:

Here's a video link to using the material Jamie is talking about http://blip.tv/file/471819


There are 4 episodes that go through the procedure in a vacuum bag, its not a wing, but...

Depends on your building style, I've gone through 2 and on my 3rd PC 3x21......great tool. Depends on the build you're doing. Right now I'm in a period where it isn't prominent.

A Belt Sander...

Hi Bill:

When you say "softening" an edge, 220 grit and the pressure of my thumb. You're just trying to bust the sharp edge. More to hold your top coats of finish than anything else.

Count me in too...............what he has done to get people involved just GREAT!!

Kyle:

I don't know, laminate is another material that is fun. Laminate imorted from Italy can get awfully beautful.

TS is thte way to go. I see where you tack a sacrificial fence to your...

Hi Aaron:

Investigated the Incra, Kreg and Jessum..............waiting delivery on the Incra.

Neil

Hi Tom:

Hard to say without a visual, but would a seperate base that your armoire rest on; be a better approach. 4 crafty legs connected by a front apron, 2 side rails and a back rail, with the 4...

Hi Jim:

That's an excellent tutorial you put together. The approach on using your platens specific to small panels shows excellent efficiencies. Staying with Allan's meleamine, a pc of wax paper...

Hi Craig:

I'm with Carl and Charlie and support the idea of purchasing your extension slides. But your design will dictate whether they be metal or wood or cable driven for a pedestal base table...

Hey that's pretty cool Charles!!!!

Hi Art:

When you're aligning your belt, are you finding the center by moving the belt both "left and right" to find the center???? Once you work it to the center, watch the belt ride for 10 to 15...

That's a beauty!!!! The photography of your lighting scheme is spectacular. All the differing textures....super!!!!

But more importantly is your thought in one of your posts:

I enjoy doing...

Hi Mark:

I like that comment: "It looks simple....sometimes looks are decieving."

My thoughts are as one's woodworking experiences grow, the level of woodworking maturity is shown through...

I'd leave out the butter part of Doug's.... Shepard pie :) there, but a mix of walnut and pecan hits on those tones that David DeC above mentions. I'm in David's camp when he talks of "wood tones in...

Hey Craig:

Paper, pencil, and reputation!!!!............Neil

Thanks for the link.........I'm into that kinda stuff....so much history so little time.

New Raymond got Nakashima to Jimmy B's backyard.......but didn't realize it was during internment, just...

Hi Matt:


Number 14...............January 1998

Cover shot.....An Ode to Oak.

Articles: Age of Mahogany........Knock-Offs:Unethical or Illegal......Table from a Tree

Neil

Hi Lloyd:

Plain and simply, It's a production machine Lloyd, as others above have mentioned, it's big, but there's more.

I find your question interesting though because, I've always fealt a...