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  0 Thread: Advice on cutting tiny trim pieces
Post: RE: Advice on cutting tiny trim pieces
I started in on making my scratch stock almost immediately after Mark gave me the head slap I needed. But real life got in the way, and I was temporarily overwhelmed with paying refinishing jobs, so I...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 10 6,107 03-25-2018, 05:50 PM
  0 Thread: Advice on cutting tiny trim pieces
Post: RE: Advice on cutting tiny trim pieces
MarkSingleton Wrote: (03-06-2018, 08:29 PM) -- Make a profile of what you need and then a scratch stock from that. -- heh, now I feel like an person (begins with an i and ends with a t). Of course t...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 10 6,107 03-06-2018, 08:35 PM
  0 Thread: Advice on cutting tiny trim pieces
Post: Advice on cutting tiny trim pieces
Hello, all. Hope this finds you all well. I am mid-restoration/repair of a really nice olf mahogany table a friend of mine inherited. It was a wreck, but I have it mainly under control. I'm just...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 10 6,107 03-06-2018, 08:18 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench location
Post: RE: Workbench location
I work out of a windowless two car garage. I positioned my workbench to have access to all four sides--really three sides, as one short side is a bit too close to the wall to actually work from that s...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 16 9,317 01-24-2018, 07:20 PM
  0 Thread: Quandry
Post: RE: Quandry
Admiral Wrote: (01-21-2018, 09:46 PM) -- 5pt, and yes, no problem. -- I agree. I just ripped two pieces of 4/4 red oak with a 9 point because it is the coarsest cutting saw I have. Not feeling a lot...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 6 4,370 01-24-2018, 03:39 AM
  0 Thread: A breif month
Post: RE: A breif month
I wasn't aware things had gotten off track for you, Ron, but I am glad to hear you're back in the shop making awesome tools. Good luck!
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 11 8,905 01-22-2018, 03:48 PM
  0 Thread: Sort of a Rust Hunting Post
Post: RE: Sort of a Rust Hunting Post
Thanks, everybody who identified some of these tools. Still gonna call those little things tweezers, though. Or maybe roach clips, now that we have legal marijuana here in sin city. :) I'll prob...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 18 10,542 01-13-2018, 03:07 AM
  0 Thread: Sort of a Rust Hunting Post
Post: RE: Sort of a Rust Hunting Post
Bill_Houghton Wrote: (01-12-2018, 09:15 PM) -- I kinda get the impression that you were a sailor or ground soldier or, even worse, a Marine; but I suspect most flyboys and flygals would consider them...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 18 10,542 01-13-2018, 02:47 AM
  0 Thread: Sort of a Rust Hunting Post
Post: RE: Sort of a Rust Hunting Post
RickinOakville Wrote: (01-12-2018, 08:35 PM) -- The drafting tools you called eyebrow tweezers are actually ink pens.  You adjust the two tips to the width of line you want on your drawing and then d...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 18 10,542 01-12-2018, 08:45 PM
  0 Thread: Sort of a Rust Hunting Post
Post: RE: Sort of a Rust Hunting Post
He had some really nice 2 by material, one nice oak board, and a bunch of small pieces of walnut I will definitely find a use for. We took this wall organizer down. It fills up with a bunch f r...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 18 10,542 01-12-2018, 08:06 PM
  0 Thread: Sort of a Rust Hunting Post
Post: Sort of a Rust Hunting Post
But there wasn't any sport in the "hunt." Kind of a long story, but the ailing 87 year old father of a friend of a friend was a career aircraft mechanic and a hobby woodworker. He's dying, and he want...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 18 10,542 01-12-2018, 08:01 PM
  Shocked Thread: Weekend project: Block plane
Post: RE: Weekend project: Block plane
Yeah, I made the adjusting hammer as well. I like it a lot, but it needs to be a bit longer (TWSS ). The head is filled with epoxy for weight, as that's just a bit of copper plumbing.
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 7 4,303 01-08-2018, 08:02 PM
  0 Thread: Weekend project: Block plane
Post: RE: Weekend project: Block plane
Stwood_ Wrote: (01-08-2018, 01:39 AM) -- Looks nice. I see the steel pin. Something reclaimed? I bought some brass for my pin. -- The steel was just what I happened to have on hand. The wood was a...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 7 4,303 01-08-2018, 01:43 AM
  0 Thread: Weekend project: Block plane
Post: Weekend project: Block plane
Technically, it's a small smoother, cuz it is bevel down. It's genuine mahogany with a tung oil finish. Hock blade. It's incredibly comfortable to use. The shape was more or less just a whim--it...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 7 4,303 01-08-2018, 01:32 AM
  0 Thread: Fun with totes
Post: Fun with totes
On the left is the tote from a Stanley #6 I have had for a while with the horn broken off. Long story short, I dunked it in a cup of epoxy I had left over from a pour I had just finished. (Waste not, ...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 1 1,940 12-04-2017, 02:53 AM
  0 Thread: Track saw vs table saw
Post: RE: Track saw vs table saw
ez-duzit Wrote: (10-23-2017, 11:25 AM) -- What kind of experienced woodworker could possibly wonder about this? The table saw is essential and indispensable. The track saw can do things a table s...
 MattP Woodworking Power Tools 24 14,453 10-23-2017, 05:20 PM
  0 Thread: My Experience with Epoxy Finishing
Post: RE: My Experience with Epoxy Finishing
badwhiskey Wrote: (10-08-2017, 05:00 PM) -- Thanks all. I'm not really a fan of high gloss either, but it seemed like the only solution to save the top.  And yes, the Mrs. is super happy.  This tabl...
 MattP Finishing 13 9,129 10-22-2017, 04:51 PM
  0 Thread: New Favorite Youtube Channel - Check him out
Post: RE: New Favorite Youtube Channel - Check him out
bennybmn Wrote: (09-26-2017, 03:25 PM) -- Signed up! I'll watch some later. -- This is "Walter Ambrosh" of the Facebook handplane making/using/collecting group. He is a regular poster there, if any...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 11 7,775 10-22-2017, 04:26 PM
  0 Thread: Filing a Lie Nielsen plane
Post: RE: Filing a Lie Nielsen plane
JimReed@Tallahassee Wrote: (10-22-2017, 01:54 PM) -- I guess the title says it all. I got out a bunch of planes for a job and one happened to be my LN rabbet. http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/...
 MattP Woodworking Hand Tools 18 9,442 10-22-2017, 03:29 PM
  0 Thread: Any one have epoxy table top finish thoughts and tips?
Post: RE: Any one have epoxy table top finish thoughts a...
badwhiskey Wrote: (07-24-2017, 07:49 PM) -- I bought a table top made from reclaimed chestnut.  It has a lot of defects and I'm thinking about doing an epoxy finish top coat.  What are some recommend...
 MattP Finishing 5 4,664 08-01-2017, 08:08 PM

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