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Paul, if I may, can I rephrase what you have said and then pose a couple of questions?

First the cost accounting:

Nothing competes with solar during the day, and
Only solar competes with...

And that is where the real strength of the Forum lies.

$145 for one bit !

Welcome to the Forum, Deedad

These guys in Boolaroo might be worth a phone call:
Plywood Timber Suppliers | Direct to Site | Newcastle & Hunter Valley
You might find that they only sell by the...

Sure is. In Japan paulownia is a prefered species for furniture and is also used to make exquisite lacquer ware products. Cheaper stuff has papier mache core, best stuff has paulownia core, and the...

Good Morning Josh

I have done a bit of steam bending and curved laminate fabication an offer a few comments.

Kiln dried timber does not steam bend very well - commercial kiln driers rush, dry...

Fully agree. Just too much friction. Using them in a drill press reduces the friction, but still not a good tool to use.

Have not seen the Ripper TCT Hole Saws but have taken note of them and...

Hole Saw

None ofmy holes saws will drill 60 mm depth - so you would probably need to drill from both sides. Such a lot of friction at depth would make a drill press almost mandatory - with a lot...

Mine, too, I took a similar approach to Derek, but used a sheet of pegboard as my spacing template to accurately drill dog holes on my MDF assembly benches about 20 years ago.


Pegboard
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FineWoodWorking Magazine has an interesting video by Michael Fortune on sharpening drill bits.
Sharpen Your Own Hybrid Drill Bits - FineWoodworking

Has anyone tried his technique? Comments?

It really is.

When you treat people like that, you destroy your own credibility and staff move on. Talented people find moving on to be the easiest. When the school reopens, assuming it does,...

Enjoy your holiday in the Shaky Lands, Derek.

Three weeks to think about your chairs, and do nothing!

Looking good Toni; nice job.



Strange, I have never actually had this happen with wipe on poly - WOP. My experience is that WOP is touch dry after about half an hour or so, longer when cold...

I first went to Japan in 1968 and K's were certainly dominant, especially as commercial vehicles, as Japan then had relatively low private vehicle ownership.

We were last in Japan in 2019, not...

Just another tool. Also country background; On my twelfth birthday, like my brothers, cousins and most of my friends, I was given a rifle - a Lithgow 22 single shot - the girls were asked if they...

And that little guy can actually be quite large.

GMC = Genuine Makita Copy
LVMH has major counterfeiting problems (*),
More Rolex watches made in China than Switzerland.


Intellectual...

Hi Brian

I was not familiar with Whitechapel locks and hinges so I tried to have a peak on the above website, but got a message "Domain name available for sale". Oops!

Bit of googling and I...

Even earlier than that.

I can remember when my late father bought a new fangled electric drill system or kit or whatever it was called in the early 1950's:

Black & Decker, then a quality...

The Electra Beckum BAS500 that Rustynail has is a trade quality product rather than a consumer model aimed at hobbyists. Wellworth exploring.

If you have 3-phase power, then it is also worth...

I am equally nonplussed on the problem of timber names, and the issue seems to be getting worse, not better, with creative marketeers.




Possibly not the best example, Ian, or maybe it is a...

The same thing, minus the worm holes, that makes it oak or ash.

I'd settle for the last six slices!

Are you being ironic in suggesting that they have any policies?

That all makes a lot of sense, Ian, the classic form follows function argument. I just hadn't thought it through.

The lineage of Uncle's chest from the Seaton is evident, plus a bit of evolution....

Thanks, Rusty.

I worked for a while in a civvy job in the army in the late sixties, and was well aware that a lot of stuff came back "unofficially" from Vietnam. One AK47 finished up in a museum,...

Like you, I also use CAD - I have a slight preference for Rhino 8 or Autocad over Fusion 360, but use all three - and also use CAD to design how to make something. Forces me to really think through...

Really?

The AK47 and the M16 are both fully automatic assault rifles - aka machine guns - and I thought they were always illegal in Australia, except for the military.

AK47 = Kalashnikov =...

Was that gorgeous tool chest made by Jim Kingshott during his apprenticeship built to a "standard pattern"?

The reason I ask is that a great uncle of mine who lived in the Midlands of Tasmania...

Never heard of anyone buying an AK47 to pop off a few rabbits.

Never truer than a few years ago when the gangland shootings were occuring in Melbourne.

But the media worked itself into a fenzy: "What are the Police doing?"

Seems to me that we had a...

After watching Matt's recommendation - the videos by Jim Kingshott - I stumbled over this - a bit slow in parts, but worth persevering with - same passion and craftsmanship.
...

Thanks Matt

Such a rarity; someone on boobtube who actually knows what he is doing. Delightful.

I think it is actually a Rohrkrötenvernichter.

That stuff that haveabeer recommends is easy to use and fine as long as you cannot see it - then it is horrible - in my view, at least.

Adding to the excellent advice from TruckJohn.

Your...

So true; I love sashimono and am fascinated by it. Sashimono evolved from an adaptation of temple architecture.

Japan, like New Zealand, is on the shakiest part of the ring of fire; earthquakes...

This may have varied by region.

I am in Tasmania and a lot of quite modest cottages from the 1850's have survived, and a few going back to the 1830's. Virtually all have timber floors. One quirk...

In house DIY, I think the OP has two good options:

tongue and groove joints, or
loose tongue joints.


Tongue & groove: It is easy to cut tongue and groove edges on a router table or,...

My house, built 1882, has tongue & groove Tas oak floors, mainly messmate. Interestingly, the joinery timber is imported Baltic pine - skirtings, architraves, picture rails, doors, windows, fire...

Good Morning Danny

David Haig, tutor at the Centre for Fine Woodworking in Nelson, NZ has published an article on furniture design in the current (April 2024) issue of Fine Woodworking magazine...

Allegedly, you can convert your DCS570 to track saw capable by replacing the base with a DCS572 base.
Blocked

Would you argue with him?

Look good - "lifespan = 50,000 hours" - sounds optimistic, but Woolies would not sell junk!



May I suggest, that rather than hard wiring the battens, you get your sparky to install electrical...

It is not necessary for the dowels to extend past the joint (as shown in my drawing) to lock the joint.

Simply having the short dowels in place stops the fingers from being slid sideways. This...

Ikea on steroids.

MT, Intriguingly your statement is both true and false.

It does not have a structural advantage over a plain finger joint because it actually reduces the glue surface area.

But, conversely if...

True. I was attempting to incorporate the diagonal bracing of a Jimmy Possum Chair into a Maloof influenced design, but I was not brave enough in eliminating the unessential.

Still, it is a very...

I didn't. I was being too cute in my post and said joint rather than mortise and actually used a modified Maloof joint. Much less elegant than your work in progress.


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Really enjoying...

When confronted with a similar problem of making curved legs that tapered from oval to round, I did the opposite to you, largely because I did not think of your option, Derek.

My process was:

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Hi Graeme

I have done quite a bit of epoxy work over the years and I would do things a little differently.

First, Araldite is a super discount brand and there are much better...

Was about to suggest you look at the VW Amarok but Dr Google says they are no longer made in Germany, but are badge engineered Rangers sourced from Ford, South Africa.