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| 215 days ago |
I'm heading North - 11 replies We are packing the truck today and plan to start our 1420 mile trip up I 75 at daybreak on Friday morning. We should arrive in the Upper Peninsula about Tuesday of next week. We will spend two days in Atlanta where my son and I are taking a class at Highland Woodworking. I won’t be on the computer as much this summer. U.P. there, in the... |
| 244 days ago |
Choose the right plywood - 14 replies I used to be able to go to almost any supplier, order plywood by the letters such as “A/C”, and get plywood of consistent quality. Those days are gone. We now have a market flooded with low quality imported plywood that has been the subject of several recent postings. Hoping to stay above the politics of the matter, and the China ... |
| 265 days ago |
Frank Miller Lumber Company - annual Spring sale - 1 reply The 6th annual Spring lumber sale is set for Saturday April 18, from 8AM to Noon. the Frank Miller Lumber Company is located in Union City Indiana, on the Indiana/Ohio border about 55 miles NE of Dayton Ohio. This is a trip well worth making. Their write up on this event is as follows; “We will be having a huge sale on Saturday, April 1... |
| 277 days ago |
Fine Woodworking's Archive Collection - 14 replies Taunton press has now released their DVD of all 201 issues of “Fine Woodworking” 1975 -2008. This DVD has a search feature that enables you to pick out a subject, ie: workbenches, and it will produce all articles and plans on this subject through their entire history. |
| 281 days ago |
Yankee screw driver - 10 replies Even though I now have cordless drills, one of the handiest hand tools in my collection through the years is a Yankee screw driver. I found a nice one at a yard sale that I plan to put in my “Workshop in the Woods” this Spring. However I need to have the special slotted bits for this tool. Does anyone know where to purchase Yankee sc... |
| 282 days ago |
Norm on PBS - 10 replies I watched Norm briefly on Saturday as he was making a doughbox out of reclaimed pine. Frankly, I thought that some of his table saw working methods were a little scary. He doesn’t use a guard, and sometimes it looked as if his hands were rather close to the blade. He squared off one end of a board on a sled, and then removed the sled, t... |
| 285 days ago |
SCAM - 26 replies I just received a PM from a joymm (joydaku666@yahoo.com). This is simply a virtual copy of the Nigerian scam that has circulated for many years – ie: they need to put money into your bank account. I’m surprised to see this on Lumberjocks. Has anyone else received this message? If so, I hope that no one has replied to this me... |
| 288 days ago |
Surfs Up - 11 replies “Hanging 10” on Lake Superior in the winter; How’s this for extreme adventure! |
| 319 days ago |
BULL MOOSE - 1 reply This picture was taken in Baraga County in the Upper Peninsula by a pilot counting moose for the DNR. We all know how long a moose’s legs are – the snow is really deep! Along the Lake Superior shorline they have just had a break after 27 straight days of measurable snow. |
| 325 days ago |
Lake Superior Ice Phenomenon - 11 replies While the ice usually forms at the shoreline, the expanse of the lake is open water. With the wind in the right direction, driving waves under the shoreline ice, water “squirts” up through faults and forms an “Ice Volcano”. |
| 332 days ago |
A Lake Superior Winter spectacular - 7 replies For those who must suffer through a long and cold Upper Peninsula Winter, Mother Nature sometimes rewards those hardy souls with a spetacular light show; l |
| 334 days ago |
A Lake Superior Christmas - 10 replies Merry Christmas all. |
| 335 days ago |
the passing of John Folkerth - 6 replies John Folkerth, Shopsmith’s founder and chairman, passed away last Friday in Florida. In the Early 70’s, with a lot of personal sacrifice, and the American spirit of entrepreneurship, he founded shopsmith Inc., bringing back and invigorating a product that had lain dormant for two decades. Thanks to his drive, and interest in promotin... |
| 399 days ago |
A turning point in History - 2 replies Today marks the 203rd anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. Lord Nelson led a smaller British fleet against the combined French and Spanish armada – and smashed them! This was one of the greatest naval battles of all time, fought by “iron” men in wooden ships that were constructed by carpenters using hand tools. |
| 409 days ago |
When is a square - not a square? - 4 replies The answer; Altogether too often. After purchasing a set of engineer’s squares, I discovered that most of my old squares were not “square”. Some were way off. I then purchased a Wixey digital angle gauge and a dial indicator gauge that fits in my miter gauge slot. After re-aligning my table parallel to the blade, and exactly... |
| 410 days ago |
I threw it away! - 11 replies Along with some other tools purchased recently, included was a Delta 10 inch compound miter saw. For some reason the previous owner took the saw guards off of all the tools and threw them away – miter saw included. I looked at all those saw teeth sticking straight out and decided that this wouldn’t do, so I called the B&D, Del... |
| 597 days ago |
Using the molder head in a table saw - 2 replies Nick Engler takes us through the basics; http://www.shopsmithacademy.com/SS_Archives/SS115/SS115_Molder.htm |
| 598 days ago |
age old question - 18 replies In closing his latest “sawdust session”, woodworking author Nick Engler posed this question; “If a woodworker speaks in the forest, where no wife can hear…......is he still wrong?” |
| 604 days ago |
resawing with the Kreg bandsaw fence - 7 replies Woodworking author Nick Engler shows how to use featherboards when resawing with the Kreg fence. http://www.shopsmithacademy.com/Tips_Archives/TP116_Resawing_with_featherboards.htm |
| 604 days ago |
Roy Underhill - 2 replies For those of you who are within reach of Atlanta, Roy Underhill is going to be at Highland Woodworking on May 3 & 4. While there, he is also going to teach a class on making woodworking dies and taps. |
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