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  0 Thread: Design: Tables- Shin kickers
Post: RE: Design: Tables- Shin kickers

Why are dragging the angry vitriol in your belly over somebody's blog post here? If you don't like the author, his work or his fans don't read his blog. It's the Internet; agree to disagree. Build...
fletcherj Woodworking Hand Tools 23 14,506 05-02-2017, 07:52 PM
  0 Thread: Visiting Canada and Lee-Valley; better to buy at the store?
Post: RE: Visiting Canada and Lee-Valley; better to buy ...

Sure, you pay the tax at checkout in store but then you can fill in the form (GST176E) and mail to the CRA to receive a rebate for the HST on your purchase of goods. It must be more that $200 and exp...
fletcherj Woodworking Hand Tools 16 9,342 04-15-2017, 10:01 PM
  0 Thread: Visiting Canada and Lee-Valley; better to buy at the store?
Post: RE: Visiting Canada and Lee-Valley; better to buy ...

You can also order online and pick-up in store. The real joy of a Lee Valley store is go at quiet hours (usually after dinner) to touch, hold or fiddle with floor models before you buy. This does ...
fletcherj Woodworking Hand Tools 16 9,342 04-15-2017, 06:52 AM
  0 Thread: I don't like plastic saw handles
Post: RE: I don't like plastic saw handles

Plastic? Wood is a material made up of long chain molecules that we call polymers. That's a technical way of saying plastic. HDPE just is another polymer material.
fletcherj Woodworking Hand Tools 10 7,705 01-26-2017, 07:19 PM
  0 Thread: basic hand tool kit for building furniture by hand?
Post: RE: basic hand tool kit for building furniture by ...

Also consider reading Vic Tesolin's Minimalist Woodworker. It's a book for working wood in tiny spaces or shared use spaces like condo living rooms.
fletcherj Woodworking Hand Tools 32 20,494 12-12-2016, 09:50 PM
  0 Thread: Who is Bryan Palme?
Post: Who is Bryan Palme?

Recently I have been getting a lot of email from said person and all of it links to some other place with plans I never requested. The only reason I post it here is the to line is woodnet-gr6@wood...
fletcherj Woodworking 8 6,598 11-27-2016, 10:36 PM
  0 Thread: Woodnet Google Group??
Post: Re: Woodnet Google Group??

Is the info in the user profile encrypted or plain text? I just received an email from the Google group and I don't have that email public here.
fletcherj Woodworking 9 6,164 04-12-2016, 05:37 PM
  0 Thread: Small-scale sharpening study
Post: Re: Small-scale sharpening study

Study or bit of club fun? In order to actually investigate the effect of media only you'll have a lot variables to control. Media particle size, pressure applied, tool steel, number of strokes (how do...
fletcherj Woodworking Hand Tools 9 5,299 03-07-2016, 10:47 AM
  0 Thread: Chinese foot powered lathe and traditional bowl turning.
Post: Chinese foot powered lathe and traditional bowl ...

http://youtu.be/zfpo3MasyKQ (http://youtu.be/zfpo3MasyKQ)[br][br][br]After watching this guy sharpen on stones so far out of flat it makes you wonder if machinists grade flat is a North American affec...
fletcherj Woodworking Hand Tools 6 3,911 11-21-2015, 10:21 PM
  0 Thread: Strategy for hardware...........how to organize
Post: Re: Strategy for hardware...........how to organiz...

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fletcherj Woodworking 75 37,484 10-28-2015, 12:48 PM

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