122 days ago
by will2480 |
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Today my wife, daughter and I attended the 2008 Fiesta Arts Fair which was hosted by the Southwest School of Art & Craft in San Antonio, TX. If you are familiar with San Antonio, TX you might be aware of the annual Fiesta events that take place in San Antonio all across the city. My family decided to attend the art fair this afternoon.
While we were there two different artisans caught my eye and prompted me to pick up their cards so I could review their websites. The first artisan t...
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132 days ago
by BigJim |
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I started this project by creating some rip guides for my skil saw. I glued and nailed a 1/2”x 1” piece of strapping to the edge of a piece of luan making after making sure it was nice and straight. Then I set the skil saw up against the strapping and ripped the luan. Now I have a really slick rip guide for sheet stock. I made a second one that is 4ft long to server as a cross cut guide.
Plywood router bits; apparently a 3/4” piece of ply wood is not 3/4”, it i...
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139 days ago
by AHolmes |
6 comments »
I just created a search engine plus wiki completely dedicated to woodworking. You can take a look here.
I launched it about a month ago, and we’ve already seen quite a bit of usage. It lists popular projects and let you find all kind of easy woodworking jobs. Anyone can add comments too.
Hope people find it useful, and please let me know if you have any thoughts.
Thanks-Alex
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140 days ago
by BarryW |
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Here’s my first use of my D4R Leigh Dovetail Jig with VRS router support and vacuum connection. I must say it’s a little more complicated than I thought it would be at first and I’m not certain how I’ll adjust for other thicknesses of wood other than 3/4 at the moment…but I suspect that as I use it I’ll test and try to do things in a new way. I still have some adjusting since I had trouble with the VRS router support/vacuum connection. It wasn’t as...
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141 days ago
by firetowerfp |
13 comments »
Hello everyone- I just wanted to say Thank You to everyone that send me a message welcoming me to this great site. I just joined a few weeks ago and have already gotten so much off the site. I hope to contribute my own projects/thoughts/whatever comes to mind in the future. Already it’s been a great experience.With that said, I wanted to get some advice on the purchase of a new 14” bandsaw… as my primary tool for making bandsaw boxes, this is the center of my “shopR...
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143 days ago
by Allison |
22 comments »
I want to take a minute (or 2or 200) to tell you about an awesome place I found in southern Ca, Santa Ana to be exact. The name of it is Austin Hardwoods & Hardware(714) 953-4000 610 N Santiago St, Santa Ana, CA 92701.
The cross streets: Between E 6th St and E Santa Ana Blvd, This is the most outrageous place to locate the elite of hardwoods. Less than 20 miles from my fathers house in so. Ca. It is an absolute must stop for me when I go down to visit my father. They have wood there th...
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149 days ago
by nakamaruchi |
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Thanks to much advice from kind people in LumberJacks but I must give up useing Festool in Japan.
1 There is a Festool dealer in Japan. But they are not serious to sell what they have. They don’t have either net shop nor a actual shop as rfar as I know.
2 In Japan Festool is very expensive. It cost more than twice as much as purchasing in USA.
3 US dealer is prohibited to sell outside of US and if by any chance I could find some dealer that can ship something to Japan confid...
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160 days ago
by Karson |
19 comments »
I just received an E-mail Newsletter from Fine Woodworking. They have a review of Lee’s Ezee-Feed.
All users give it a 5 except 1 person and he gave it a 2 and didn’t give any words as to why.
You might post your reviews if you’ve bought one.
Karson
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172 days ago
by tomfidgen |
5 comments »
Two Planes go Head to Head
These days, when you open up your favorite Woodworking Magazines you see an incredible amount of hand tools coming back into style by manufacturers from literally all over the world. While this indeed is a good thing for hand tool users and collectors, the amount of choices the amateur woodworker can have may be a little overwhelming. In this article I’m going to compare two of my favourite Smoothing planes, a Lie-Nielson No. 4, and a James Krenov custom sm...
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173 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
21 comments »
Wondering how to make this Leap Day special?
I have the answer ;) Go to your workshop, pick one of your tools, snap 1-3 photos of that tool and post your personal review to extend our growing collection of the real reviews by real woodworkers.
And what makes it special, you ask? As you know, Leap Year Day is February 29th and is added to the calendar every four years (with few exceptions). So here’s the deal – out of all Leap Day review posters we will have 4 random winners ...
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