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Yeah, it's funny how that works. In another A3-31 thread Erik Loza mentioned that some people ended up using the manual from a Chinese copy because it was better than the Minimax documentation:

You've explained it perfectly well Julie and it looks like a pretty poor design. I think what people above are saying is that since you never really need to use the fence when you're using the full...

One thing that has helped me justify larger tool purchases is reminding myself that the value doesn't disappear as soon as you buy the tool. If you buy a $4K jointer/planer, it's not like that $4K is...

That tends to be what happens. If the competition becomes more expensive due to tariffs then companies can raise prices more easily on their own products. I mean, why not make more money if the...

Go to https://images.google.com/ and click on the camera icon in the search bar. Then you can either paste the URL of the image (if it's already online and publicly accessible) or you can upload the...

Just did a reverse image search, and that's an Axis table and chairs by Copeland furniture. Here's a page for the chair with a bunch of different shots:
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Never mind the fact that metric is even more compatible with that trick because it's all whole numbers. Need to divide 120mm into 1/5ths and don't want to do the math of 24mm x 5? You don't need to...

I've done a lot of woodworking and cabinetmaking and I have yet to run into a situation where the ability to divide base 6 math into smaller increments easily provided any kind of meaningful...

Same here, weird how that works.


For projects, I usually do the conceptual stages in imperial just because I can visualize the normal sizes of things I build better in inches and feet. I can get...

I've used the same technique as Wayne where you make the interior of the wrap slightly larger than the outside of the solid post which protects against most irregularities you'd run into with normal...

Another option for a cheap bag is 20 gauge vinyl from a fabric store. If you shop around sometimes you can get it for a $4-5 a yard (54" width). 2 yards of that and you've got a 3' x 4' bag, though...

I was referring more to this kind of shape:

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That box is symmetrical with parallel long sides and all the angles aren't all the same. That particular one has two 90º angles on the ends...

Not necessarily, imagine a flattened hexagon. That'd be a 6 sided box but 2 of the 6 angles would be different from the other 4.


That said, I'm still not clear on the angles of this box. If two...

What kind of veneering (and how much) are you thinking of doing? If budget is a real concern, you can get away with just using clamps and MDF as platens for smaller stuff. Or you can spend a bit of...

I don't know, to me cutting a double stopped groove on a narrow 18" long piece of wood by lowering it onto and raising it from a spinning cutter while (presumably) not using push blocks is a pretty...

The difference between athletes like ski jumpers and woodworkers is increasing the risk generally improves the result for the former but not for the latter. Not using a splitter and a guard on a...

I always like Sam Maloof's approach when demonstrating technique to other woodworkers. He knew some of his methods (particularly his free hand shaping on the bandsaw) were dangerous. He made it clear...

I'm not sure I see the point in this kind of post. I don't know if you're just trying to be funny, or if you honestly believe that everyone who suffers a table saw injury just didn't bother to not...

Well obviously I wasn't conflating driving while intoxicated with woodworking. I was merely pointing out that even with something that is universally considered as risky behavior, one's chance of...

Of course you can. I think we can all agree that driving drunk is reckless and dangerous, but based on the statistics only about 1 in 550 instances of intoxicated driving results in an incident that...

Precisely. Redundancy is very important in safety. Which is why the notion of not using available and convenient safety equipment and relying on human error never happening as a means of protecting...

Keep in mind he said "good guarding". A well designed guard can be out of the way in about as much time as it takes you to lower your blade(s) below the surface, which is also required for you to use...

But they can still sell (and do sell) in Canada without a patent, so they're not foregoing the revenue. The only risk is if someone copies it just for the Canadian market which is probably not...

I don't know, it seems pretty straightforward to me. If the saw can't cut rubber accurately at the end of the track you're certainly not going to want to cut wood from that point either. Nor would...

Very true. I should've said that when aligning a miter gauge, the slot (and not the blade) should be the reference point. Everything should be referenced off the miter slot.