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  0 Thread: Cutting boards as a career option
Post: RE: Cutting boards as a career option
AHill Wrote: (05-20-2022, 03:29 PM) -- My point was a table saw was perfectly adequate for holding the weight of the larger, wider cutting boards, but that your planer or belt sander may not have tha...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 14 2,013 05-20-2022, 04:27 PM
  0 Thread: Cutting boards as a career option
Post: RE: Cutting boards as a career option
AHill Wrote: (05-18-2022, 06:18 AM) -- I say make one yourself and report back whether the cost of materials (wood, glue, sandpaper, etc.), your labor, and cost to ***** it are anywhere near the $100...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 14 2,013 05-18-2022, 09:33 PM
  0 Thread: Cutting boards as a career option
Post: RE: Cutting boards as a career option
AHill Wrote: (05-18-2022, 06:18 AM) -- Most Boos cutting boards end up in commercial kitchens.  They are very well constructed, that's for sure.  Is a 30x30x6 board worth that much?  Maybe.  Only 1 o...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 14 2,013 05-18-2022, 09:12 PM
  0 Thread: Cutting boards as a career option
Post: Cutting boards as a career option
Remember several years ago there was a company selling some wooden blocks to support your sound system's audio cables so they didn't lay on the floor and destroy the fidelity of your music.  Seems lik...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 14 2,013 05-17-2022, 09:53 PM
  0 Thread: Wooden body armor, transparent wood/
Post: Wooden body armor, transparent wood/
Not quite make it at home but interesting article. There's another super wood besides me (https://getpocket.com/explore/item/stronger-than-steel-able-to-stop-a-speeding-bullet-it-s-super-wood?utm_s...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 1 905 06-01-2021, 05:54 PM
  0 Thread: Rolltop desks
Post: Rolltop desks
Anyone ever take one apart? My daughter was gifted one with a pretty tired finish on it.  Its a pretty decent one that's solid red oak (heavy) with some really crappy looking door fronts and slides...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 3 1,213 05-26-2021, 12:15 PM
  0 Thread: DeWalt Planer workaround?
Post: RE: DeWalt Planer workaround?
Worked great.  Three passes and done.  All the figure that disappeared in the BS is back.  Daughter's charcuterie board is back on track.  Figured maple with sipo banding.  Several years ago I made up...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 13 2,828 01-14-2021, 02:36 PM
  0 Thread: DeWalt Planer workaround?
Post: RE: DeWalt Planer workaround?
Rule of thumb:  The louder the tool, the thinner the cut. Apparently you survived the operation.  I've got some melamine in the stacks so I'll switch out the shop ply for melamine. I have a 3/4" loc...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 13 2,828 01-14-2021, 01:37 PM
  0 Thread: DeWalt Planer workaround?
Post: DeWalt Planer workaround?
I have the 11" wide DeWalt planer.  Here's the issue: I did a resaw on the BS for a bookcut top in tiger maple, planning on laminating them to some plywood. I cut the pieces 1/4" thick x 6" wide, ...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 13 2,828 01-14-2021, 01:14 PM
  0 Thread: Take up woodworking they said. It will be fun
Post: RE: Take up woodworking they said. It will be fun
I remember lending my brother some router bits for a project of his.  His mistake was bottoming the bit into the chuck, not allowing for the little flare where the weld is.  He was routing something i...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 11 4,583 06-19-2020, 06:20 PM
  0 Thread: Take up woodworking they said. It will be fun
Post: RE: Take up woodworking they said. It will be fun
joe1086 Wrote: (06-18-2020, 09:24 AM) -- Was this just standard borg construction lumber, and did the fir stay straight after you resawed/milled it? Just curious as I have a door like that to make in...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 11 4,583 06-18-2020, 11:40 AM
  0 Thread: Take up woodworking they said. It will be fun
Post: Take up woodworking they said. It will be fun
Decided to make some screen doors.  Went to the big box and picked through the 2x6s to find enough clean doug fir to make the doors and jambs. Took them home and milled them to thickness with a resaw...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 11 4,583 06-17-2020, 08:44 PM
  0 Thread: Making croquet mallets
Post: RE: Making croquet mallets
PedroOhare Wrote: (09-16-2019, 09:37 AM) -- Croquet Mallets don't have to be round. Someone showed up with a mallet like this at an annual camp out I attend and it was amazing. https://www.amazon....
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 15 5,724 09-19-2019, 12:38 PM
  0 Thread: Making croquet mallets
Post: RE: Making croquet mallets
goaliedad Wrote: (09-13-2019, 06:12 PM) -- Simple hole drilled thru the head and a wood wedge to hold the handle in place? -- This morning over coffee I was thinking this would be the best solution...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 15 5,724 09-15-2019, 02:13 PM
  0 Thread: Making croquet mallets
Post: Making croquet mallets
I bought a set for my daughter's family.  $200 at Amazon and I found it at a sporting goods store for $40.  Assembling it I was disappointed with the quality of the mallets.  I can see them splitting....
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking 15 5,724 09-13-2019, 03:31 PM
  0 Thread: ditching X10
Post: RE: ditching X10
Long ranger 220 here, too.
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking Power Tools 11 4,448 08-16-2019, 12:48 PM
  0 Thread: variable speed control needed.
Post: RE: variable speed control needed.
Arlin Eastman Wrote: (03-24-2018, 01:53 PM) -- Can you use the speed control box like what Routers use or other motors? Like this https://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/smarthtm...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking Power Tools 9 4,944 03-24-2018, 09:47 PM
  0 Thread: variable speed control needed.
Post: RE: variable speed control needed.
BloomingtonMike Wrote: (03-23-2018, 09:27 PM) -- Foredom is no dremel lol. -- No there aren't but what they are small rotary tools with mostly 1/8 HP DC motors. The scroll saw is AC and 1/3 hp.
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking Power Tools 9 4,944 03-24-2018, 12:14 PM
  0 Thread: variable speed control needed.
Post: RE: variable speed control needed.
packerguy® Wrote: (03-23-2018, 06:09 PM) -- What mike posted looks like what your wanted.  If you want a consistent motor speed, maybe one of these would work. I use one with my dremel....its awes...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking Power Tools 9 4,944 03-23-2018, 07:18 PM
  0 Thread: variable speed control needed.
Post: variable speed control needed.
I've got a Delta saw that uses the coping saw blades and uses a reciprocal motion.  I haven't used it in years because its a single speed and that is ludicrous speed.  Also have a Rockler throat plate...
 Kizar_Sozay Woodworking Power Tools 9 4,944 03-23-2018, 04:07 PM

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