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West System products can be found fairly widely at suppliers like West Marine, but generally your best bet is online. There are a lot of specialized formulations for clear coating and deep...

To be fair, uf adhesives are not marketed as waterproof or for boatbuilding uses exposed to severe moisture cycling. Can you describe the typical uf failure scenarios you have seen? Have you seen...

Please expand on this. I can believe that the rigid glueline could be a disadvantage in some situations like crossgrain joints subject to moisture cycling. In his book Professional Cabinetmaking Alan...

It means mixed resin and hardener with no additives.

Agreed. For my practical purposes there's not much difference. For highly stressed joints newer stock may be advisable. https://www.epoxyworks.com/index.php/shelf-life-real-life/From the West System...

I will point out that West System generally recommends wetting out surfaces with unmodified mixed resin for best adhesion prior to adding thickeners to the mix. I'm sure single step bonding is...

Yes, that has been my experience. I have used primarily West System 105/205-6 and Basic No Blush epoxy from Progressive Epoxy Formulators, and have kept them on the shelf for as much as 5 years. I've...

David and Michael offer good advice. Unibond 800 and powdered plastic resin glue are similar urea formaldehyde formulations but Unibond has a lower water content when mixed. Unibond had some reported...

Very fine work, Robert! Is that a reproduction or your own design?

Yes, dampening with a spray bottle can sometimes help.

Yesterday I stopped by a job my son is working on in a neighboring town, repairing damaged trusses on an 1870 era brick meeting house. Missing slates allowed the heels of two trusses and the plate...

Try wire wheels of various types before sandblasting.

Not necessarily. Pneumatic pressure is an option (Fine Woodworking #63 p. 83, Pneumatic Lamination). If one runs short of clamps threaded rod is an alternative as shown here....

If you feel you need to bricklay and pattern-rout stacked layers in order to get an accurate curve I suggest keeping the thickness down and use 3 or 4 layers as trimming with a long router bit...

Forget pattern routing. Do the joinery and assembly, then saw the parts out as accurately as possible and clean up the faces. In my shop I would use an edge sander.

The bevel angle on a spindle gouge is not critical, somewhere between 30* and 45* will work; the more acute the angle the better it will work on softwoods and the faster it will dull. The shape,...

Thanks for the response and all the pictures, Tom.

Tom, those are nice looking windows and a credit to your use of old hand tools. How do you go about coping the joints? Do you cut jack miters and undercut with a coping saw or do you have a coping...

There isn't any maximum thickness with that set as it cuts only the profiled part of the sash bars. The glass rabbet must be cut with another tool with a straight profile like a rabbeting bit or dado...

If you already sold the client on a profile a custom cutter set may be required. I recently had a pair of corrugated back shaper knives and a coping router bit for a door made by Ct Saw & Tool for...

Penetrating oil plus time, heat (heat gun or torch) and vibration (careful tapping with a hammer). If that doesn't suffice try to find a bearing puller, use wedges as Ken suggests , or try to suspend...

I don't question your experience with poplar heartwood, Mel, but it just isn't available here as such. I have read elsewhere of old growth poplar being quite durable, and we have a meeting house in...

Mel, can you get poplar that is primarily heartwood? I have never seen it come that way in these parts. I worked on a large house trimmed outside in poplar with a lot of attention to flashing,...

Depends on the width of your stiles. If you want narrow stiles use a stretcher.

I avoid poplar for exterior work as it has little rot resistance. Look around for torrefied wood. Western red cedar,...

Have you considered using air pressure? A section or two of firehose and a caul trapped between a two piece form will supply higher and evenly distributed pressure. Short of that, use cauls and more...