Craft Forum / Wood/Metal / Woodworking / November 2008

OK, I've put this job off all year while it was warm.  I need to insulate
the garage/shop attic.  I have about 500 SF of attic space to insulate and
the joists are 2x12 on 16" centers.  I'm trying to decide between cellulose
and fiberglass.  From what I can determine, cellulose ...

I been working on a cutting table for my wife with a bank of 10 pull-through
drawers below. That is 20 "drawer fronts".
Since the wood is highly figured and adjacent drawer fronts were each cut
from the same board, they have a very specific order.  In addition to that,

There are many fine dealers in AC.
There are also some dealers who do a terrible wash, or shuffle in big
clumps in the riffle, or occasionally skimp and try to get by with
only two riffles.

I see that LV has added a couple new block planes to their line.
(Also discussed in Mr. Ferrarri - Meet Mr. Stanley, etc..)  They are
certainly different looking animals, no question.  But looks aside,
are these planes going to function better than the current blocks they

I'm building a couple of gun racks for a retiring coworker. They'll be
similar to this one:
http://www.thedolk.com/gunrack/index.html
Just something so they have a safe place to stay.

I had my annual full medical this morning.
I'm male, over 55. That's 2 out of 3 (or more) risk factors for heart
disease.
I'm always a bit concerned about what he'll find this time around.

I've been thinking of building a elevated deer stand for gun and bow hunting.  About 5-6'
off the ground.  I can come up with something fairly mundane that is going to work but I'd
like to hear about any interesting tweeks the deer hunters have incorporated into the
typical 6x6 or ...

Sorry I didn't give a larger picture of what I'm doing in the first
post on this topic.  This entire apartment has a
concrete floor.  We're expanding the kitchen, which was originally
hexagonal mosaic set in about 1-1/4" of

Hello to the group,
Been searching the archives reading everything we can find on shop
layout and setup but thought I would throw out a quick request for
input as well.

I saw this lurking elsewhere.
The election is over, the results are now known.
The will of the people has clearly been shown.
We should show by our thoughts and our words and our deeds

Given the wide variations in quality in construction lumber these days,
does anyone have any insight into how to estimate the voids in a sheet of
ply (say ACX) before cutting into it? (Without breaking down and getting
stuff like marine plywood manufactured to a spec defining no ...

I recently finished removing (4) 1/2" layers of fir from a pair of glulam
beams (for my workbench, but that's another story).  I did this by making
lots of 1/2" deep saw cuts across the beam faces, then using some bench
chisels to waste away the majority of the wood.  Lots of ...

http://porchmonkey.250free.com/2houses.jpg
I built this (see link below) for my kids a while back. At that time,
and against my better judgement, I took the advice from my local
lumberyard and did not concrete the 4"×6" posts into the post holes.

I have to take some 450 grit sand paper and glue it to a piece of wood
in order to make a sanding block. What is the best kind of glue to use
for something like this or is there a device that makes this simpler?
Thank you.

I've got two Panasonic EY6407 12V Ni-MH cordless drills, five EV9200
12V 3.0 ah
batteries and THREE EY0230 7.2-15.6V chargers.  The drills were bought
three years apart 2000 and 2003 each with a charger.  The third charger