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I just recently got one of the Taylor Tools gauges through their ebay store, and I can't speak for what David got, but mine functions exactly like the TiteMark. Independent barrel, one half with...

Thanks for all the feedback everybody. I wound up ordering one of the Lee Valley hand cut/Ajax rasps tonight. I figure for $35 I might as well give it a shot, and hopefully it works well for my...

Thanks so much everyone for all the great feedback, I really appreciate it. Prashun, thanks for the link to John's videos, those helped immensely.

What I'm considering at this point is getting...

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For my birthday recently my wife (who is the best ever) got together with my parents, her parents, and both of our siblings and they all together gave me a chunk of money to attend...

I agree, drilling the holes will not be a super time consuming aspect of construction, regardless of the method I wind up using. Lee Valley does have a basic set which is only $125 and seems much...

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Sometime in the next several months I need to build some cabinets for my garage/shop, and in the next year or so I want to build several bookcases for the house. I found the...

My wife and I recently bought a 1950s dresser to use in a child's room with the intent of refinishing it. It was originally a semi-transparent white finish of some type over maple veneer. Someone...

So couple things:

Current table is 48 long, 27 tall, and 17 inches deep. It seems a little short and too deep to me in the space.

36 inches between the corner of the current table and the...

Kent,

What you can't see in my renderings and the picture above is the stairway that descends to the right of the frame. Yes, the wall is approx 11 feet long, but the rightmost 5 feet or so is...

The front entrance to our house is frankly currently a little bland. When walking in the first thing you see is a big blank wall that screams for a table or small bookcase of some kind. Below is a...

My bench is a split-top with 12" in front of the split and 12" behind. What I've found is I wish I had put the split further back (like Ken did above). 12" (for me at least) is too close to the...

If I'm understanding the discussion correctly, it sounds like the genesis of the home made tools subforum was a desire to more easily find topics dedicated to home made tools.

Assuming this is...

I would love to remove most of the step, but according to local building code it has to be there. Based on my limited understanding of the building code, the step is there to prevent exhaust gasses...

So, responses to some comments/questions:

1. I don't really want to cut the bench shorter and put it on the step just because there would then be 20 inches between the back of the bench and the...

My "workshop" is also my 2 car garage where it is expected that 2 cars will also park. This leaves me with having all of my woodworking tools and workbench on the perimeter of the garage.

My...

Over the last year or so I've managed to get a small collection of hand saws (only 5, I said it was small...), and all of them have been decidedly on the cheaper end. I've gotten decently good at...

Still do:

http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=66021&cat=1,43411,43417

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I'm trying to assemble my ideas for a wall-mounted tool cabinet. I'm not a hand-tool only user, but I have amassed quite a few hand tools that I want to make a better home for. I've...

Not snowed in (anymore....), although I have spent a lot of quality time with the snowblower and shovel recently.

So, I guess here are my thoughts after reading everybody's comments/suggestions:
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So I'm in the planning stages of what will be my biggest woodworking project to date; building a set of bookcases that cover the majority of a wall in our living room. Just to be...

This site has lots of good info:

http://foleyfiler.blogspot.com/

Personally, I think they are pretty cool. I've never gotten the opportunity to play with one or use one, so take whatever I say...

Ok, so I'll try to address the things I'm seeing brought up.

Noise - they're quiet. I built the servers myself. One I really isn't a server, it's a router I built using an old P3 board and chip...

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My wife and I recently bought a new house and in the process I kind of lost my office space. There isn't a dedicated room like I used to have for a desk and computers. For most...

Over the last few months I've managed to gather a small collection of hand saws (4 - 2 D8s, a D12, and an EC Atkins that I don't know the model of). I've successfully rehabbed one of the D8s,...

I rather like my local Woodcraft. They have quite a bit of stuff and are super nice (at least my store is). Only local place I know of to get General Finishes, sometimes they have decent sales (got...