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  0 Thread: Has anyone built their own low profile airtight dust bin?
Post: RE: Has anyone built their own low profile airtigh...
I made a plywood box with a drawer for the dust.  The only trick was sealing the drawer into the box, which was done with an overlay front, foam weatherstripping, and a couple of bungee cords mounted ...
 Alan S Woodworking 5 694 12-10-2022, 10:54 AM
  0 Thread: Phone app for tensioning bandsaw blade!?
Post: RE: Phone app for tensioning bandsaw blade!?
I tried the InKleind app, and was a bit disappointed at the limited types of blades it worked on.  This is because he fit the measured data on a couple of blade types so it'd be more reliable, but onl...
 Alan S Woodworking Power Tools 6 517 11-06-2022, 10:08 PM
  0 Thread: Epoxy for cracks in table
Post: RE: Epoxy for cracks in table
If the cracks are narrow you don’t need a deep pour epoxy. The challenge with an ordinary runny epoxy (often called a boat building epoxy) is to keep it from dripping out before it sets. One approac...
 Alan S Woodworking 15 959 10-13-2022, 09:15 AM
  0 Thread: Western red cedar
Post: RE: Western red cedar
That looks more like eastern red cedar, (aromatic cedar) than western.
 Alan S Woodworking 16 1,222 08-02-2022, 03:39 PM
  0 Thread: Interesting old buck saw: insights welcome
Post: RE: Interesting old buck saw: insights welcome
That is an interesting tensioning system, though it does look heavy.
 Alan S Woodworking Hand Tools 1 437 07-30-2022, 04:53 PM
  0 Thread: Aluminum Files
Post: RE: Aluminum Files
adamcherubini Wrote: (06-25-2022, 08:30 AM) -- Can someone answer why one would need high quality files for aluminum? Why not Mexican made Nicholsons? The problem with cheap files is that they dul...
 Alan S Woodworking Hand Tools 20 2,055 06-25-2022, 11:21 AM
  0 Thread: Making Cauls for laminating plywood
Post: RE: Making Cauls for laminating plywood
The point of a curved caul is just to get clamping pressure in the middle. But you want to make sure it’s all flat, so you either need to carefully balance opposing cauls, or make sure one is much mo...
 Alan S Woodworking 9 728 06-23-2022, 11:24 AM
  0 Thread: Making Cauls for laminating plywood
Post: RE: Making Cauls for laminating plywood
I’d also be pretty careful to find or s h i m a stable surface very flat to glue it on. Weights are good to hold it down flat, but you need a lot of weight. A vacuum bag under the weights may not ho...
 Alan S Woodworking 9 728 06-20-2022, 12:11 PM
  0 Thread: Jointing thick boards
Post: RE: Jointing thick boards
Planing to a straight line I'll assume is not the problem. Then the challenge is to keep the two sides in register for squareness and to avoid twist. One approach is to start with winding sticks, and...
 Alan S Woodworking 11 1,034 06-08-2022, 03:40 PM
  0 Thread: Electric hand planer ... which one ?
Post: RE: Electric hand planer ... which one ?
Based on the "Tips from a Shipwright" recommendation over the other brands (see youtube link above) I got the Ryobi, the only Ryobi tool I've ever bought. It works well, particularly with some of Sau...
 Alan S Woodworking Power Tools 9 1,071 05-26-2022, 09:55 AM
  0 Thread: Cosman's AdjuSTAR - Improvement or Gimmick?
Post: RE: Cosman's AdjuSTAR - Improvement or Gimmick?
Mine seem to work pretty well without it, but I’ve had quite a while to get used to them. I never noticed difficulty in turning the knob, but turning it a small enough amount might have been easier t...
 Alan S Woodworking Hand Tools 24 3,521 05-23-2022, 02:41 PM
  0 Thread: Using boiled linseed oil
Post: RE: Using boiled linseed oil
I would go with what John said to be sure of success.  I'm only bringing this up as a shot at something that might save a lot of work. Is it possible that simply applying a wiping varnish to the re...
 Alan S Finishing 5 808 05-17-2022, 11:30 PM
  0 Thread: Amana
Post: RE: Amana
As mentioned above, some registrants were notified by email. Does anyone know whether those who weren’t had left any contact information? If they didn’t, what else should Benchcrafted have done besi...
 Alan S Woodworking Hand Tools 31 3,953 05-03-2022, 12:54 PM
  0 Thread: Glue for veneer
Post: RE: Glue for veneer
Unibond 800 sounds good, and I’ll probably try it. I noticed that Google found quite a number of failed veneer bonds from people new to it in around 2012-2015 or so. Does anyone know of a bad batch,...
 Alan S Woodworking 34 2,708 04-29-2022, 03:58 PM
  0 Thread: Amana
Post: RE: Amana
Yes, the guys at benchcrafted organize the Handworks shows. Remember they are free: you pay for your lodging, but not for all the other stuff, and your money doesn’t go to the organizers except indir...
 Alan S Woodworking Hand Tools 31 3,953 04-28-2022, 08:46 PM
  0 Thread: forum category for professionals
Post: RE: forum category for professionals
I would expect that if there was a lot of discussion on a subject, that subject might become a candidate for a new category.
 Alan S Woodworking 11 1,273 04-19-2022, 11:23 PM
  0 Thread: Installing a Shelix Head on a Delta 22-580 Planer - PIC HEAVY
Post: RE: Installing a Shelix Head on a Delta 22-580 Pla...
Tapper Wrote: (04-13-2022, 04:19 PM) -- Seeing no pics, just tiny squares??? Doug -- That's what can happen as a photo hosting site changes.  It's also the reason that earlier in this thread Cia...
 Alan S Woodworking Power Tools 21 27,468 04-16-2022, 03:13 PM
  0 Thread: Identifying an Aluminum File
Post: RE: Identifying an Aluminum File
The Vixen file seems to be the thing I've thought of as designed for aluminum.  It has teeth like a float, but cut in a curve.  I have found they work well on wood in planemaking where you might use a...
 Alan S Woodworking Hand Tools 4 775 04-04-2022, 02:46 PM
  0 Thread: Good Shop Vac Upgrade?
Post: RE: Good Shop Vac Upgrade?
I have a small cyclone similar to the dust deputy mounted above a 20 gal galvanized steel trashcan, connected to one of the larger Ridgid vacuums.  I have several plywood reinforcing rings around the ...
 Alan S Woodworking Power Tools 9 1,311 03-17-2022, 05:55 PM
  0 Thread: Make Golden Mean calipers
Post: RE: Make Golden Mean calipers
The golden ratio shows up many places in math and nature: the ratio of adjacent Fibonacci numbers approach it for example. It does look good. People periodically point out that matches in art ar...
 Alan S Woodworking Hand Tools 16 1,844 03-16-2022, 01:02 PM

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