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Probably not a large scale DDOS - https://twitter.com/mhackling/status/763122057307525120/photo/1 (some interesting comments in there too)

Mixed messages coming out, some quotes say "4 DOS...

I always had poor luck buying clothes or shoes in the right size in China (~6ft tall) so I pretty much gave up trying stuff on. Brand name stuff was also way too expensive this time around. The...

Recently got back from a trip to China and this particular museum in Beijing was one of the highlights of the cultural attractions we visited. I thought I'd share a few photos.

To me this looked...

Hi Grumpy John,

I just returned from 4 week trip to China and we spent 5 nights in Beijing. Most of our time was spent at cultural attractions and I'd say 5 days was definitely enough to see...

That was an interesting read, thanks for sharing. Until you think/read about it, seems like it would do more harm than good.

Nice work, the restoration is looking pretty sweet. Thanks for the post with the detail putting everything back together. I have a newer stanley #4 I've been cleaning to make it serviceable and it...

What product are you using to remove the rust (and how well did it work with the overnight soak)? I picked up a few neglected planes at a garage sale and only semi-successful removing the rust from...

Great work and ditto on the comment about comprehensive photos, really appreciate the details :D

I completed a pine workbench just recently and I think my biggest issue so far is lack of weight. I either need to add body weight when planing or some heavy ballast. My bench is relatively small so...

Nice, a fair sized bench. Do you lock the castors somehow, or is it free to roll around?

Definitely murphy's law. Every planned garage time for me seems to fall on a 35C or higher day.

Your bench is looking great, almost too pretty to work on :D

That's looking great, very sturdy. Some mammoth nuts & bolts holding on that front vice or is just how it looks in the photo?

Sent a PM. Might not be available for big stuff, but happy to help out with some free advice.

I did something similar with my first attempt at getting the fence square on my sled and had trouble with the torque of the drill pulling it just slightly out of square each time I tried to screw it...

When windows 10 first came out the complaint was not that they had left it out of the installation, pretty sure it was still available free, but had added advertising and paid options to get rid of...

I remember seeing that post from Paul a while back. I couldn't quite understand why he made it out of a single piece of wood instead of just gluing some angled pieces on. I guess the intention was to...

Not sure if it helps in this situation, but interesting read/watch from Matthias Wandel about pocket holes vs mortise/tenon:
https://woodgears.ca/joint_strength/pockethole.html

Thanks Ian & Christos. Definitely lots of lessons learnt. I think it meets the brief, seems to be a good balance between light enough to move around but heavy enough to stay put when working on it....

Precisely why I never bother with these things. The only tangible reward is for the organisation running the program who gets to collect a bunch of market data and sell you more things.

They need...

The motor and switch look identical to the one I recently (perhaps 6 months ago) setup for the 10" carbatec branded contractors table saw. In my motor there is a female kettle plug at the end of a...

I finally managed to catch a spare day on the weekend without distractions to finish off the rest of the base. Draw boring the tenons turned out to be a mistake. I did 3 of them with my hand drill...

Looking good Doncra, it came together quickly! Are you planning on adding a vice?

I've had the Carbatec contractors saw for 6 months and my experience is overall positive, but fair warning it's my first table saw so I don't really have a lot of practical comparisons.

The good:...

Do those Irwin quick release clamps provide much pressure? I used some similar (cheaper) clamps for a recent lamination and they were next to useless.

Watching the rest of the build with interest.

+1 for the password safe. I use last pass and I can't remember the last time I typed in a password for a website or made one up.

We bought a place about a year back with no copper installed so our only other option was to go VOIP. Never bothered setting it up, we rarely used the landline anyway and only seemed to be a target...

A little bit more progress over the weekend. I finished cleaning up the mortises for the legs into the bench tops and did some test fits. Not sitting super flat yet, but close enough that I can clean...

Ah, thank you. Welding makes sense, would be very strong. I was thinking of implementing something similar with a spare vice screw I had, hence the question. Your build looks very sturdy and...

Wow, an absolutely beautiful bench, I love the vices! What did you use to secure the metal guide rods for the front vice?

With a bit of time over the long weekend I completed the assembly of the top piece with the wagon vice/travelling dog. The whole thing is a bit dodgy, if I bought it I'd send it back, but I made it...

Nice work Yanis. That gouge is barely visible!

Congrats!

If you or your significant other is a little shorter you'll want a side you can drop down or have the cot at a height you can reach into easily so you can pick up bub, or stand and reach...

You can buy specialised tick combs that act a bit like the nail remover on the head of a hammer, usually cheap plastic things that lever the head of the tick off the area (I'd expect the dog version...

Thanks Ian :D I had planned to attach the top in the way you'd described, I think I just struggle to find the right terms to use. The small tenon I'd described was just to help any horizontal...

I've made a little progress, although I got slightly waylaid with some work in the backyard raising some garden bed walls to keep our dog from getting into more mischief.

I played with a few...

Great job! All those draws remind me of a Chinese traditional medicine shop for some reason :D

Are those castors lockable?

A sharpening stone and mallet for those chisels. From the store chisels won't be sharp.

I believe it's called a chamfer bit.

I threw together a simple jig that I clamped to the smaller boards I was routing. It's fenced on all sides to help guide the router in a straight line and give me some spots to attach clamps. Not...

Loving the detail in the descriptions and lots of photos. Great work! Look forward to seeing how that knight turns out.

I did a bit of a test constructing a receiver from plastic.
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Once screwed together that should hold it fairly well and handle the clamping pressure (I think). I need to get a few...

It's just a little wide for the channel rotated on it's side. I could widen the channel but that affects all the work I've done positioning the nut in the end block... It's not impossible, but I'm...

You are probably right. This thing doesn't come with instructions and it was sold as a 'shoulder vice screw'. I had actually originally intended to build it the way you described with my other 'tail...

Thanks Ian, that makes a lot of sense. Do you think it would also be viable if the receiver wasn't made out of metal? I could recess a small hole to hold it in the dog block then screw some sort of...

I managed to get a fair bit done over the weekend, thought I'd drop by with an update.

For the wagon vice I was struggling a bit trying to put in the tail vice screw I had. I decided to purchase a...

That's really good to know. I certainly wouldn't claim they were amazingly flush before the glue up, but I could have sworn they were better than when I inspected them after the glue had set.

Is...

Great idea of setting your budget before you start, very disciplined! The merbau I've browsed doesn't seem terribly cheap, but certainly very pretty and should make a nice bench.

I've got no...

Thanks :D

I'm planning to mortise & tenon the legs into the top. I had seen a few versions out there that used through tenons & sliding dovetails, but seemed like a bit of overkill and probably a...

I took the clamps off the second lamination last night and to my dismay I see more gaps. I was pretty confident with this one, I could hand close the gaps and aligned everything really well before...

No worries, thanks for sorting it out.