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| 56 days ago |
Shipping Pkgs. - 7 replies I have a custom millwork/moulding shop and local sales have pretty much dried up. I’d like to expand into shipping around the U.S.Anybody know where I can get shipping boxes and packing materials?We have a UPS pickup locally (shudder, they destroyed a blanket chest I shipped once) but I guess I’ll try them for moulding. Also any pit... |
| 84 days ago |
Wood ID? - 14 replies I got this 4 or 5 years ago at an auction. It was in a pile of walnut scraps they couldn’t get a bid on. So I get a short pickup load of wood for a buck (gloat).It’s real soft and light weight. Really wild grain. I dampened the pieces in the photo.I resawed it into about 3/8” thinking veneer on some special project some day.Any... |
| 109 days ago |
removing veneer - 5 replies i’ve never done any restoration but had a regular customer bring a old Roos Sweetheart cedar chest by.she wants the walnut veneer removed so she can paint itthe veneer is in real bad shape, some missing, some peeling, some really tight my question—is there a easy way to loosen it thanks |
| 121 days ago |
learning from the young'un - 3 replies in all my years i’ve never had a need for the plastic safety key switch on my power tools.now i’ve got a 2 yr old grandson that loves my shop, (no i don’t run power tools with him in there).so i started taking out the key on my TSyesterday i was sweeping up and he hit the button on my shopvac cyclone dust collector (L Jock desi... |
| 127 days ago |
true definitions of tools - 3 replies don’t know if this has made it here, but couldn’t resist Subject: Common Tools DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted vertical stabilizer which you had carefully ... |
| 130 days ago |
planer problem - 3 replies hi alli’m running a 18” woodmaster planer and getting chatter marks occasionally but not allwaysi’ve put in new blades and tried different feed speeds it’s not bad but sometimes the boards come out smooth as glass and other times a little wavydoesn’t do it with moulding heads or drum sanderany ideasthanksron |
| 147 days ago |
cyclone question - 8 replies i’m wanting to finally put dust collection in for my table saw and router table?? is do the cyclone rigs collect better or just save the filter from clogging i have a 2600 cfm dc on my planner about 25 feet from my table sawwould i be better off hooking into it or set up seperate system with a shop vacany ideas appreciated |
| 212 days ago |
drill guide - 3 replies i recently saw a guide/template for euro cabinet hinges on one of the diy network showsdon’t remember which show, amy matthews was the host the template clamped to the doorthe guide attached to the drill and was cone shapedit appeared to regulate depth of the fostner bit and nested into the template so there would be no drift of the biti ... |
| 233 days ago |
my shop? - 3 replies see a spot in my lumberjocks called my shopis there a place here to view other floor plans for ideas? really enjoy this groupthanks |
| 234 days ago |
radial arm saw - 16 replies good idea or bad???i was making some oak threshhold for a friend, when i cut my stock to length he ask me why i didn’t pullthe radial arm out and push is through the stock, like a sliding compound. duh!!! i tried it and had much better control. i’ve had trouble in the past with 8/4 oak or walnutwith the saw trying to climb or race at... |
| 244 days ago |
pocket hole plugs - 10 replies i went to use some pocket hole plugs for the first time recently on some 6/4 material and they drop out of sighti only find one size in the catalogsany ideas on what i’m doing wrongthanks ron |
| 246 days ago |
new kid on the block - 15 replies joined yesterdaynever have done this forum type thing thanks for all the welcome emailsure like what i’v seen so far on here ron |
