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  0 Thread: Making Your Own Plywood
Post: RE: Making Your Own Plywood

jteneyck Wrote: (01-27-2023, 10:43 AM) -- Not of these panels yet, but here's one of some 8 mm walnut plywood I made for the wall clock I made last year.  Again, 5 plies, all walnut in this case.   ...
iublue Woodworking 17 1,384 01-30-2023, 08:38 PM
  0 Thread: Making Your Own Plywood
Post: RE: Making Your Own Plywood

I too use the blue tape and I have found that only the 3M brand is good enough to work for me.  I used to use veneer tape but I don't like the extra step. I have not really made flat plywood but mo...
iublue Woodworking 17 1,384 01-25-2023, 01:33 PM
  0 Thread: Powder Post Beetles
Post: RE: Powder Post Beetles

Thanks to everyone for the replies. Heat it is!  Next summer I will cook those little buggers! I understand the sentiment of chucking it but the spalted maple turning blocks look great with some...
iublue Woodworking 10 1,053 11-11-2022, 02:33 PM
  0 Thread: Powder Post Beetles
Post: Powder Post Beetles

I built a box app. 16' x 5' x 4' to enclose some wood from the old barn.  It is infested with powder post beetles but I want to save it.  It is loosely piled in. I have read that hot temps between 12...
iublue Woodworking 10 1,053 11-08-2022, 09:03 PM
  Video Thread: What will happen to your tools when you die?
Post: RE: What will happen to your tools when you die?

Die?  Who is planning on that!! :)  I have done it in the past and probably need to do it again and that is take my phone and make a video of all my tools, what a paid for them and an approximate v...
iublue Woodworking 19 1,854 11-08-2022, 08:48 PM
  0 Thread: Heat and AC
Post: RE: Heat and AC

JDuke Wrote: (07-31-2022, 08:07 PM) -- I’m in east Texas and my shop is 30x60 with 14’ sidewalls metal building, but I went with a 6/12 pitch so 21’ at peak. I did 2” of closed cell on the ceiling a...
iublue Woodworking 13 1,245 08-01-2022, 07:09 AM
  0 Thread: Heat and AC
Post: RE: Heat and AC

srv52761 Wrote: (07-26-2022, 08:46 AM) -- Aha! A fellow Hoosier from my neck of the woods, kinda (Grant county). 2” of closed cell foam will indeed act as a vapor barrier and be air-tight and give...
iublue Woodworking 13 1,245 07-29-2022, 07:01 AM
  0 Thread: Heat and AC
Post: RE: Heat and AC

BrentDH Wrote: (07-26-2022, 11:01 AM) -- Iublue, if you go to your "user CP home" there is a column of options on the left  hand side.  One of them under the "Your Profile" is "Edit Profile".  If you...
iublue Woodworking 13 1,245 07-29-2022, 06:59 AM
  0 Thread: Heat and AC
Post: RE: Heat and AC

srv52761 Wrote: (07-25-2022, 10:47 AM) -- Difficult to advise without knowing more about your climate.  But, as an energy manager I can counsel you if you plan to condition the air you need to priori...
iublue Woodworking 13 1,245 07-26-2022, 06:48 AM
  0 Thread: Heat and AC
Post: Heat and AC

It is getting close to the slab being poured for my new shop so I need to get my ducks in a row for heat and AC. Because of the cost of wood, I went with a metal building - not a pole barn - the enti...
iublue Woodworking 13 1,245 07-21-2022, 12:31 PM
  0 Thread: Furniture repair - central Indiana
Post: Furniture repair - central Indiana

A lady contacted me about attaching legs on a table.  My shop is in storage so I am asking here. Anyone within a reasonable distance of Anderson that does furniture repair?
iublue Woodworking 3 620 07-08-2022, 01:12 PM
  0 Thread: Time to purge - post #1
Post: RE: Time to purge - post #1

OneStaple Wrote: (06-06-2022, 08:07 PM) -- Where are you located for the pickup option? Tyler -- Sorry but I thought that I had my location posted. Central Indiana - Kokomo area.
iublue Tool Swap N' Sell 2 852 06-08-2022, 06:44 AM
  0 Thread: Time to purge - post #1
Post: Time to purge - post #1

Emptying out the old shop and time to thin the herd! #1 Stand up caulking gun.  Works great.  Has a guide for 1 1/2" joists.  $40 plus shipping but seems like it would be better picked up. #...
iublue Tool Swap N' Sell 2 852 06-06-2022, 07:40 PM
  0 Thread: Spray room
Post: RE: Spray room

Thank you gentlemen. My room is 7 1/2' x 10 1/2' x 9' high.  So I think I could a drying rack on the end, the fan on the side and spray towards it. Either that or I could make a drying rack on w...
iublue Finishing 4 612 03-28-2022, 06:24 PM
  0 Thread: Spray room
Post: Spray room

I am still planning my new shop.  I doubt I get it done this year since material costs are OUTRAGEOUS but trying to get everything planned out. I will have a finishing/spray room so that dust issues ...
iublue Finishing 4 612 03-27-2022, 01:03 PM
  0 Thread: is 3/8" too thin for kitchen drawer side? borderline?
Post: RE: is 3/8" too thin for kitchen drawer side? bord...

mound Wrote: (03-26-2022, 01:58 PM) -- Several of my wider re-sawn maple drawer blanks gave me trouble with movement after first milling.. Was shooting for 1/2" final thickness after 2nd milling, but...
iublue Woodworking 17 1,947 03-27-2022, 12:49 PM
  0 Thread: Kitchen Countertop
Post: RE: Kitchen Countertop

jteneyck Wrote: (03-07-2022, 10:56 AM) -- If the countertop will be cut on then you are limited to oil/wax products.  If it won't get cut on then Waterlox OSF would be a good choice if you can let it...
iublue Finishing 4 1,101 03-09-2022, 09:48 AM
  0 Thread: Kitchen Countertop
Post: Kitchen Countertop

I have been contacted by a lady that is considering a wooden kitchen countertop. What is the best, toughest finish to use? I used epoxy on a vanity top once and it was difficult to deal with esp...
iublue Finishing 4 1,101 03-06-2022, 10:46 PM
  0 Thread: Business Opportunity - Northern Indiana
Post: RE: Business Opportunity - Northern Indiana

iublue Wrote: (02-03-2022, 05:04 PM) -- I make shipping parts for a company and I am thinking about giving it up. The price would be north of 100k and would include any pieces that I have made. A...
iublue Tool Swap N' Sell 5 1,685 02-05-2022, 12:32 PM
  0 Thread: Business Opportunity - Northern Indiana
Post: Business Opportunity - Northern Indiana

I make shipping parts for a company and I am thinking about giving it up. The price would be north of 100k and would include any pieces that I have made. A CNC machine that can handle close to 4 x...
iublue Tool Swap N' Sell 5 1,685 02-03-2022, 05:04 PM

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