Craft Forum / Wood/Metal / Woodworking / February 2010

Received this.  Must be a scam because it came to an email address not
associated with Paypal, and there were crazy misspellings, such as
"PayPaI".
CAREFUL with the Phishing stuff!

When I was at the WoodWorking Show, someone from LN/V showed me how
to emulate a scrub plane.  He was using a Low-angled plane with a blade that
appeared to be ground with a lot of camber.  Now I'm asking myself whether
it would be

I admit it, I'm much more normite than neander...
Anyway, I don't have a shooting board but can see where it would be
useful from time to time.  But one thing I've never understood just by
reading about them: why doesn't the plane blade chew into the raised

I want to make a tray to contain a thin layer gravel that will lift out of
an acquarium.
I thought I would use a plastic box lid cut down to size and with square
section strips of wood screwed to each of the edges to form a lip to keep

How do you know when a cabbage is boiled?? The wheelchair floats to
the top .
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Three disabled guys (a blind man, an amputee, and a guy in a

Fine woodworking has a video of Hank Gilpin.  I don't have his tools or
his skill or workspace, but if I were to ever grow up, I'd like to be
just like him.  He may be my first, and only woodworking hero.
http://www.finewoodworking ...

I'm looking to add to the power tools and tools plus has a good price,
$6 shipping and lift or gate fees for powermatic and jet tools.  It
sounds almost too good to be true.
Has anyone had any experience, good or bad?

I was given a lathe today by a *good* neighbor. (her husband passed away a
few months ago)
Is there a newsgroup for "turners"?
I'm actually looking for a video or book on using a lathe.

Any opinions about this gun?
I have a PC 18ga 2" brad nailer and 15ga finish nailer.  Both
excellent.
This HF gun was 17.99, and the stapler seemed like it might come in

I've done a lot of 3 inch thick shelves whre I could fabricate a cleat
screwed into studs and slip the shelf over the cleat. Now the shelf is
a 7/8 inch thick 5 foot slab of Sapele.. maybe 5 inches deep. Can I
make a cleat or does somebody make one I can use for this

I have an Hitachi C10 FSH compound miter saw that has worked
beauitifully for me for a couple of years.  Recently I allowed someone
else to use it and it is now out of whack.  It burns almost every cut.
I am running a very sharp Forrest Woodmaster on it but to be certain

I'm a novice at building raised panel doors and just when I thought
everything was going well when I was cutting the cove in panel, I managed to
take about a one inch chunk out of it.  Right where the inner part of the
cove meets.  Is there anyway to fix this without starting ...

I've built a pantry for my wife and the only finish I used on the interior
(red oak plywood) was clear Watco.  It looked great, but the odor makes it
unusable -- packaged goods absorb the smell.  After two months, applied a
coat of wipe on polyurethane, but that has not helped.  ...

I should have purchased this for $5.85 yesterday.
http://www.amazon.com/Fein-921072K13-Step-Adaptor/dp/B00005M1SW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UT
F8&s=hi&qid=1267035961&sr=8-1

Nice looking easy to build lumber rack.
http://www.woodsmithtips.com/2010/02/18/plywood-lumber-rack/?autostart=true