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• Interesting Festool review video

  Friends, Here is an interesting video which "reviews" a Festool item.   Let me know what you think about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlOEPxMOuAg&feature=player_embedded Mel

• Why not use two forums?

  Friends, I have five hand saws, and over a dozen hand planes, more than 50 gouges, more than a dozen chisels.   

• This forum is at a standstill

  Friends, I don't come here much anymore.  It is sad to see the state of things.  I haven't done a careful count but it seems that Knots is down to…

• New Woodworking Forum with old Knots Friends

  Friends, There is a new woodworking forum called "The Burl".  I urge you to try it out.  The architecture will be familiar to you, as will most of the folks…

• RUMOR: Lataxe retired from woodworking

  Friends, I was moving the dial of my short wave radio and there was a lot of static masking BBC.  But I thought that I heard that Lataxe has retired…

• toothpicks for chair repairs

  Friends, I noticed that things were getting a bit slow, so I thought I would bring up the topic of using toothpicks for repairing loose joints on chairs.    …

• Working replica of Noah’s Ark

  Friends, Every once in a while, a woodworker comes up with a REALLY interesting project --   a BIG PROJECT.   I just saw one such project.  A guy build…

• Free Persimmon wood

  Friends, I was contacted by a lady named Wendi who has some persimmon trees on her property that she would like to give away.   All you have to do…

• Joel is right about horsehide strops

  Friends, Years ago, I saw a thead here with a post in it by Joel of Tools for Working Wood, and he said that the best strop is a naked…

• thread in Hand Tools with over 6000 posts

  Friends, Years ago, there was a thread which had over 6000 posts.  It is an OLD thread.  I havent seen a thread in recent times that gets much above 100,…