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I thought that just one of the trolls here was banned from multiple forums and kept coming back under new identities, but I guess I was wrong . :D



Excellent advice!

For those who are on the...

I have to disagree with some of the other posts here. I have had diamond plates and float glass plates that weren't flat. If in your sharpening progression you have plates that are out-of-flat in...

I had a flat-bottomed silicone mat, but I found that waterstones would slide around on it. Later I got an Oxo dish mat, which has ribs, and it works much better....

I got one from Amazon that looks exactly the same. It's the 24" version, and I'm pretty sure it's flat to within 0.001" over its length. I'm very glad I got it.

Thanks for all the feedback, everyone. It sounds like film-forming finishes are definitely not the way to go for me.

I came across this useful Woodcraft blog post on outdoor finishes when I was...

Thanks - I hadn't heard of One Time before, but it looks interesting. I might give it a try.

I'm building a bench that will live in my back yard, and I'm wondering what kind of finish I should use, if any. The bench is made of western red cedar, with white oak legs.

Realistically...

I have one of the best folding jobsite saws (a SawStop) and I agree with what the other have said about these saws not being accurate enough for joinery. Actually, I should qualify that a bit. I...

Before you spend a lot on new chisels, I highly recommend trying out the "unicorn method" of sharpening, which involves using a buffing wheel. It can greatly increase the durability of your edges,...

About the Unicorn method, it will make your sharpening much easier and faster, and the edges more durable. Here's a video I made about it: https://vimeo.com/444232624

The buffing wheel kit I used...

One more thing I should mention: to hold blades securely, it helps to use a screwdriver to tighten the knob a bit more than you can achieve by hand. I keep a stubby screwdriver with my sharpening...

For the Eclipse-style side-clamping guides, one side is straight and the other is slightly curved. This is so that they can hold blades that don't have parallel sides.

In order to keep the edge...

How is this relevant to the original question, and what's the relevance of including the names of the customer service reps?

Hock blades say "Hock" on them, so it's not like Lee Valley is hiding...

I think this is what you're looking for:
https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?285480-Woodpeckers-honing-system&p=3050978#post3050978

My experience with PM-V11 is different from many others here. I had a PM-V11 blade in a smoothing plane, and it tended to chip so I sent it back. Lee Valley sent me a replacement, and this one seems...

I haven't contacted them yet. There's no published spec as far as I can tell, so I thought I'd ask here first to see what standard of flatness people here aim for.

With the Bosch router table, the main table top was warped in a way that I couldn't ever get the rectangular plate to sit flush with it all the way around. I don't know exactly how out of flat it is....

I just got a Veritas compact router table, and I found that the table is slightly bowed downward. Without the router or plate mounted in the table, I found that it dips about .005", measured right...

I got it from Target, though it appears to be available from Amazon as well. I think there may be old and new versions that have slightly different rib patterns, but I think they should work the...

I tried using a mat like that, but I found that the stones would slide around on it when wet. I ended up getting one with raised ribs made by OXO, and it's been working well for me.

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20 degrees is way too low of an angle. If I were you, I’d try 32 degrees. You could even go a couple of degrees higher, since the bed angle is slightly higher than 45 degrees.

It shouldn’t need...

Thanks, it's good to hear that the epoxy will do the trick.

The lid piece is pretty thin near the edge. I'm not sure it's even 1/4" thick at the place where the screws go in. Next time I make a...

I'm currently in the process of making a box, and it has a thin piece for the lid -- the edges are beveled all the way around so that it's quite thin near the edge. It was only after I beveled the...

I wrote something about wear bevels and burr here: https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?286912-I-m-confused&p=3067179

I have one of these from Lee Valley:
https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/workshop/storage/tool-storage/30006-canvas-chisel-and-gouge-rolls

It has a flap that folds over the sharp parts of...