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hand planed surface finish

December 30, 2007

I am about to make a cherry dinning table 60" round with two 18" leeves and the client wishes a hand planed surface with a minimum surface waxed finish. I…
Dealing with scribe marks

December 19, 2007

Hi Chris Gochnour, in his latest interactive classroom installment, demonstrates in detail how to approach dovetails. Among the techniques displayed is the use of scribes and marking knives for establishing…
dado & rip fence

December 17, 2007

I always understood never to use the rip fence when cross cutting on a table saw. However, many times i've seen pros on TV use the rip fence…
Flattening bowed 5/4 curly maple boards

December 12, 2007

Hi - I posted this on the KNOTS part of the site, thread 38996, but would like you to comment (or any other expert). I am especially interested if sawing…
attaching top to base cabinet

December 3, 2007

I aplogize if this is a duplicate of a question I asked last week but I'm not sure the email was sent. I connected a solid oak top to a…
Router Tear-Out

November 26, 2007

I recently purchased a flush trim spiral router bit. I trimmed my work to about a 1/16 of the final finish then with my pattern used my spiral bit to…
Router bits for Morticing

November 24, 2007

Hi, Sorry if this has been asked before, I looked but could not find it, if it has. I am looking to use my Router for morticing and wanted to…
Problem ripping 8/4 hard maple

November 23, 2007

I'm having trouble ripping 8/4 maple for the workbench I'm making. As I'm ripping some of the boards (10 footers), the kerf wants to close...so tightly that it pinches the…
Sticking Drawers

November 22, 2007

I have built some drawers for a cabinet and have discovered when I placed them in the cabinet that in the upper part of the cabinet when I place the…
european drawer slides

November 21, 2007

I'm having trouble getting my drawer to fit squarely in the cabinet. I'm using european drawer slides. The cabinet is square and the drawer is square also. I've secured the…