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I use Deluxe Warm White, not warm white but Deluxe WW. Unlike the cool white and so called daylight bulbs they give a light much like incandescent bulbs. All-toll I have 72' of this lighting in my...

Welcome to this place George, My background is also Science, Biology as a matter of fact, no wait, that's not Science, it's just a fact of life. :roll:

Birdie: The Pattern Maker is a craftsman that wears many hats, firstly he is an expert wood worker working in all three dimensions plus upside down and inside out and backwards. He is also something...

Rocket Not know what the configuration of the pattern is it's a bit hard to give advice But why not just use a good quality paste wax, one with a lot of carnuba wax in it, then polish to a high...

And just what exactly would the color of the tooling have to do with the shrinkage of the metal Joe? I could paint any pattern designed for casting gray iron (paisley or Argyle ) and it would still...

Try using a Albrecht key less chuck some time. Mind you at $311.00 it probably costs more than most people pay for the whole drill press.

Oh and Rocket, do yourself a favor and don't use that crap called MDF or as it's known here "Termite Barf" With the Formaldehyde and various and sundry adhesives mixed in to keep this crap held...

G'day Barry: Here the various colors would have been somewhat pointless as the moulder was not the coresetter, After the molds where made they were sent to the core room for core setts and then to...

Rocket: G'day, the silver paint on some patterns is part of a foundry code denoting what kind of metal is to be poured, in the case of silver it would mean that the castings were to be poured from...

Hello Hunter, I also support a 6'5" frame and I feel your pain. It ain't easy living in a world built for Munchkins. I built my lathe bench using 4"x 6" hard maple timbers framing a 3/4" plywood box....

Whats the koi inlay made of? Very nice work BTW.

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Hey Rocket, Our shop catered to all foundry customers large or small, whilst most of our customers were the large oil rig companies with all of their massive castings, ie:crank arms, gear boxes and...

Even with the time factor involved there was VERY good money to be made in the Pattern Making field. Most people have simply no idea of the costs involved in pattern tooling.

In the shop we used...

They all produce furniture, most on a limited scale for the local community, others on a somewhat larger scale for other colonies and for the general public however agriculture is the mainstay of all...

I have to wonder how many on this forum have ever been to an Amish colony. We have four of them within 40 miles and I do a huge amount of my organic grocery shopping with those communities. not one...

Well being Canadian as I am, I thumb my nose at Bears both Polar and Black as well as Moose the size of freight trains having a bad horn day but those Wenge slivers now thats some scary stuff. Won't...

Can't remember what I paid for it but it was alot. It was a piece of coco-bolo 8 foot long by 4.5" thick and twenty inches wide. It was used to make the risers for tournament archery bows. It has a...

Whilst Wenge is a beautiful wood the one thing that I always hated about it was the SLIVERS and the resultant festering that starts about fifteen minutes after ya jam one into your finger and then of...

You could try a good hard paste wax as well on the ways, it's what we always used to use in the pattern shop that we used to own. Do not use any lube that contains silicone, at least not if you ever...

Ah yes kraut pounders, I remember them well. In our family they were known as OAK FENCE POSTS cut off at about four foot with a ten or eleven year old child firmly affixed to one end and the other...

Ok for want of nothing better to do let me throw another stick on the fire. Firstly let me say that as a former pattern maker I can say quite emphatically that there is not one wood lathe on the...

Cute little toy, I was raised in a second generation pattern shop and worked there until I went to university and on to better things. People that have never used or even seen a real Pattermakers...

Naw it's only 90 miles from here could be there and back in four hours, darn shame that I don't need a boat anchor that size.

Well depending on the quantity that one buys, say a thousand board foot or more at a wack both Hard Maple and Black Walnut can be had for around $4.50-$5.50 a bf. Mind you that’s from the large...

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Thanks and it's Whatever you would like it to be, as hard as it might be to believe that is my name:rolleyes:

Here in Canada Lime and Basswood are the same tree and they grow like weeds. 12 years ago I cleared 40 acres of basswood for pasture. These were rather large trees perhaps on avg. 30 meters high and...

Well summers gone and the winters tunning up in the land up over, firewood pile is done, 22 cord of red oak worth and so it's time to do some serious puttering in the woodshop.