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| 10 days ago |
Stanley 93 Rabbet Plane - 3 replies I am shopping around for a Stanley 93 Rabbet plane. I plan to buy online and have found it at Woodcraft for about $125. Can you suggest any other sites that typically have good prices on hand tools. Thanks. Tom |
| 46 days ago |
Display Case with Glass Front - 4 replies I am trying to design a display case to hold a baseball and bat. It will be about 3’ long, 8” high and about 5” deep. The front of the display case will be hingedwith glass captured in something like a rail/stile door frame. I am trying to decidehow to capture the glass in the frame. One option is to put a slot in the rails and... |
| 51 days ago |
Finishing Question - 10 replies I am applying finish to a nightstand I built. It is made of white oak. I stained it and let it dryand now I am trying to apply Waterlox. When I applied the waterlox on the bottom of thebottom shelf, I noticed a big hand print. When I cleaned the surface I didn’t see it. Once I saw it I wiped the waterlox in the vicinity of the print. What ... |
| 62 days ago |
Router Base Plates - 12 replies I am putting together a router table. Most that I see attach the router to a base plate andthe base plate rests in a cutout. Often there are plate levelers to ensure the base plateis flush to the surface. I don’t understand the purpose of the router plate. Is it meant as a simple way of gainingaccess to the router for changing bits and ... |
| 80 days ago |
Tear out problems in white oak - 16 replies I am building a night stand from white oak. The top is made from several quarter sawn boards.A couple of the boards had some minor tear out after thickness planing. I went ahead and glued them together. I have tried sanding out the tear out but it is too deep for my ROS. I have tried cleaning it up with a hand plane (Bailey block plane – s... |
| 123 days ago |
Adjusting spring loaded jointer knives with set screws - 2 replies I have a JET Benchtop 8” Jointer/Planer combination machine. The knivesare supported by set screws to adjust the height and are spring loaded.There are six gyb screws that hold the blade in the cutter head. I am a bit confused as to why there are both set screws and springs. Itseems to me that the springs just complicate knife setting o... |
| 172 days ago |
Plunge Router Precision - 7 replies I have a plunge router I use to cut mortises. I have noticed that there is some “wobble” in the plunge mechanism so that sometimes the bit does not go straight down. If I push a little more on one handle than the other, the bit will veer off the vertical a bit. Thus, my mortise might not end up exactly where I want it. It is generall... |
| 183 days ago |
Jointer/Planer Blades - 2 replies About six months ago I purchased a JET Benchtop 8” Planer/Jointer combination.Recently the blades seem to be dulling and so I purchased a new set of blades.I have two questions: 1. Do planer and jointer blades typically come sharpened or do the blades need to be sharpened (somehow) before use? I ask because the blades do not feel ... |
| 275 days ago |
Zero clearance throat plate problem - 7 replies I made a new zero clearance throat plate for my Craftsman bench top table sawand am having some problems with it. The first one I made from 3/4” oak and ithas always worked fine. I made the new one from 3/8” phenolic sheet. It stands up on four allen screws I threaded into the phenolic. I inserted a wire brad into the back of the ... |
