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Welcome to LumberJocks. Enjoy the site.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Thanks, I just found this site a few days ago and I’ve been glued to it since (minus the time spent in the shop). This seems like one of the best resources I’ve ever discovered. I look forward to spending more time here and posting some of my projects as well as seeing everyone else’s.

~Isaac

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold

Glad your here. Looking forward to seeing those projects and perhaps your workshop.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Welcome to our community! I hope that you will stay a while and show us your magic!

-- Jesus is Lord!

Glad to see that you have made Lumberjocks a part of your Woodworking experience… Welcome…

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Welcome to the one and the only LumberJocks web site. We hope you enjoy your stay with us. Ask any questions about any type of woodworking and somebody will have the answer for you.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Wow, thanks for the warm welcome! I already feel at home here. I’m gonna start posting some pics of my latest project, but be forewarned, I’m a bit of a newbie at this custom woodworking. I learned to love building with wood about 7 years ago but it was in a small custom cabinet shop and we pretty much stuck with your basic red oak, ash and paint grade cabinets. Lately, even though I’m a bit nervous about it, I’ve embarked on some projects using reclaimed wood from various sources. This latest project is a coffee table using some very old red oak that, in its previous life, was part of a bumper pad system on a loading dock. It’s beauty rests in the many imperfections found in it, much like us humans. However this is a big step for me since for the first time since I picked up woodworking, I’m going to mix two different wood types. Now this doesn’t sound like that big a deal to most of you as I’ve seen many of your incredibly beautiful pieces, but for me this is a huge step, and I hope it turns out well.
As the project takes shape I’m sure I’ll have questions along the way, and I’ll post them here. As for seeing my shop, it’s a disaster area because it’s so small. I use half of my basement for my shop since that’s all I have currently, so maybe some time when it’s cleaner I’ll take some pics. For now there’s some pics of my current project in my projects area. All I’m currently using for a finish is tung oil as I’ve lately become infatuated with it. Hope this post isn’t too long.

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold

Hello All,

Are bread boards always mortised into the table top or are there occasions where they are simply glued and doweled onto the end grain?

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold

Welcome to Lumberjocks. This is a great website, and a great group of people. My wife is from Michigan, and still have relative in and around the Grand Rapids, Greenville area. Were do you call home? As for the breadboard ends. You should probably use mortis and tenons on the breadboards, and just glue the center tenon. The outside tenons will be cut smaller than the mortis. This will give the top room to expand or contract. You should put this question over in the forum section. You will get a lot of good feedback. Look forward to seeing some of your projects.

-- Greg Mitchell--Lowell, AR--gdamitchell@sbcglobal.net

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Greg, right now home is Berrien Springs MI, but my heart is still in Texas. I’m here for school but I’ll be finished up in Dec of 08 if all goes well and then we’ll be heading back to Texas, where I can finally get ahold of some mesquite and aromatic red cedar. I’m working on my MA degree right now and honestly it can’t end soon enough, but i have enjoyed the profusion of fresh fruit up here.

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold

A Big Welcome to You.

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Welcome look forward to seeing your projects

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Welcome, welcome. I am a newbie here myself to be honest, but the people are really great. We are fellow searchers, you and I: I have a PhD relating to Divinity. I would not recommend using dowels and a butt joint for breadboard ends. I can’t see a way you would be able to control cross-grain movement enough to keep the whole thing from coming apart.

Thanks. The magnets were from Rockler, just 10 in package. I didn’t look any further than that. But they were pretty strong.

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Congratulations on your upcoming 2 year anniversary being a Lumber Jock. Thanks for helping to make this a great site!

-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!

Hi Issac,

I’m new here.

First I want to say I love that mallet.

But the real reason I am writing is to ask you about the Unisaw project. Do you still have the saw? Did you add the router table as you planned?

I just made a deal to buy a 16 year old Unisaw and I’d like to tune it up and add a router table so I would appreciate learning from your experience.

Thanks in advance.

Jerry

-- Professional kitchen designer, amature woodworker.

Hey Jerry,

well thanks on the mallet part, but unfortunately i won’t be much help on the unisaw part because instead of immediately reconditioning it, i got involved in cutting with and i haven’t done much to it except zero out the fence and get everything as square as possible. i still have plans to put the router into it and i still have all the material to do it but just haven’t done it. i know that once i get it done i will wonder why i didn’t do it sooner but you know how that goes :)

hope you got a good price on the saw, mine is about 20 years old and it works like a charm, i love it…er, what i meant to say is I LOVE IT!!!

as soon as i get to adding the router and rebuilding the table part i’ll post some pics and let you know, if you’ll buddy me then you’ll get an automatic update when i post the the pics.

peace,
~isaac

oh and welcome to LumberJocks, you’ll love it here!

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold