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Heat treatment generally doesn't change the stiffness of steel, it changes the strength. These are two different material properties.

The natural frequency is related to the stiffness of the...

I have a No.5-1/2 and a No.7 from Lie-Nielsen. Out of the box, the tote on the 7 was significantly more comfortable/less cramped than the 5-1/2. I think the totes are the same size, but the 7 has a...

Should the insurance pool have to bear the cost of surgery, physical therapy, etc. when an individual declines the safety feature and then suffers a preventable injury? Should any and every safety...

I find that an unfinished or oil-finished handle becomes stained blotchy gray in short order from sharpening. The steel powder and slurry gets on my hands and then transfers to the handle. It's...

I was going to mention this in my original post about fitting a Richter with a new handle. The tenon was sized for an interference fit with the ferrule. At assembly, I hammered the ferrule in place...

I have done one homemade handle for a Richter chisel (I tried to turn down the factory ash handle on the lathe and ended up splitting the wood).

I made the handle from hard maple, drilled a 3/8"...

Derek,
It's a bit odd to conclude that the bowed design is sales-speak if you don't understand what it's about in the first place.

The slight bow is intended for shooting boards used with regular...

I have the Jet and I like it. One of the spindles did not run true (it worked, but with an annoying vibration). Jet replaced the spindle and the new one is good.

How thin is the kerf produced by the Z-saw?

I cut dovetails with a Gyokucho 372 and saw the waste with a #7 fret saw blade. The 372 makes a ~.018" kerf and the fret saw is just narrow enough to...

PB Swiss makes good ones. I have a single #2 Pozidriv from them for those odd fasteners that need it.

Where I've most recently run into PZ is in cabinet door hinge adjustment mechanisms. Two of...

Okay, letting the weight of the plane maintain the reference without adding any additional down force makes sense. That's similar to how I use a plane too.

I suppose whether wax makes a...

I can't imagine getting good results with a hand plane just barely "hovering" over the workpiece such that there's no frictional force between the sole and the workpiece. The sole is the reference...

In my experience, stropping after a 16,000 grit Shapton stone makes the edge worse, not better. My strop setup is a piece of leather mounted to a wood backer, with green compound.

+1 on the Gyokucho 372. The kerf is indeed narrow, but just wide enough for a .015" thick #7 fret saw blade to fit and get a cut started.

Not to belabor the point, but why not just use the term "parallel"? That gets the point across arguably even better than "coplanar", and it's technically correct to boot.

Thank you Mark. You're correct about the geometry, and this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.

Honestly, the word "coplanar" doesn't have much use in woodworking at all. I'm more likely to use the...

When I rotated a few cutters on my jointer, I used a Torx screwdriver with a long shank that twists a good amount. I loosed and tightened a few of the screws to get a feel for how tight they were...

Scott - the trouble with selecting grain direction before starting the dovetail process is that a typical box will have dovetails on both ends of each face. You'll have the problem I described in...

Thank you for all the suggestions. That gives me some more arrows in my quiver.

Regarding cutting the joint with the ends proud - I do this intentionally to avoid having to plane down the entire...

Okay, you cut some nice dovetails by hand, leaving the joint a bit proud so that it can be planed flush after assembly. You come in and plane the surface with the dovetail at the start of the cut...

I should have made it bigger so the shoes don't cover it up so much.

I needed a place to store shoes in the bedroom and decided on a design with through-tenons and contrasting woods to highlight the joints. I made the shelves from cherry and the sides from maple. ...

Stephen - I've never found myself wishing the Dewalt cordless had more power. It only takes 1/4" bits after all. I use it for chamfer and radius bits and for cutting narrow dados with a 3/16"...

I have the 20V Dewalt one and it's very good. Easy to adjust depth and locks securely. The spindle stops immediately when you cut off power, which is nice. I guess because of the brushless motor....

Normally when I receive a shipment in a damaged shipping box, I open it to see if the contents are damaged before contacting the vendor.

Was the concern that the straight edge was damaged in some...