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Good Evening Midge,
Nice try, but not quite what I was looking for.

The five remaining strategies for winning out over wood movement are as follows.

1. Employ the classic molding trick.
2....

Good Morning Friends,
There are five more strategies for winning over wood movement.
Can you think of what they are?

Respectfully,

Good Evening Friends,
I still like your sense of humor, but the answers you fellows gave are not quite right.
So here we go;
1. Buy smart, then acclimate your project stock.
2. Plan joints to...

Good Morning Friends,
How to win over wood movement;
There are nine proven strategies for working with wood movement in your pieces, whether they are cabinets or furniture.

Can you name the...

Good Evening Bitingmidge,
Yes, you would think that the amount on the plans cut list would be enough.

However, what they put on the cutlist is the amount of BF that was used after all the...

Good Morning Friends,
When you get a set of plans for a piece of furniture to build. As a general rule there will be a cut list and in parentheses will be the BF of lumber in the different pieces.
...

Good Evening Friends,
To achieve the smooth as glass finish here are the four steps.
1.For tight grained woods such as maple, just sand to 220 and apply your desired finish. For open grained woods...

Good Morning Friends,
Four Easy steps to a smooth - as - glass finish.

Can you figure what they might be?

Respectfully,

Good Evening Friends,
Silent C, is the winner as he gave the correct questions.
What is a Dado?
What is a Groove?
What is a Rebate/rabbet?

Thank you all for your support.

Respectfully,

Good Morning Friends,
Today I will give you the answer and you will give me the question like on Jeopardy. Remember to answer with What is;

A square-cornered channel cut across the wood grain.
...

Good Evening Friends,
Great answers by all as you blokes have a way with words and definitions,
however the one I was looking for is called a span.

Respectfully,

Good Morning Friends,
Hope you have your ferrets corralled, cause here is another woodworking quiz.

When you have two walls of equal height and a set distance apart.

This distance is known as...

Hey Silent C,
Since we got so engrossed in rabbets and ferrets, I forgot what the question was. I think it had something to do with installing a ferret on the table saw fence to rip down an...

Good Evening Friends,
You humor never ceases to amaze me, and as soon as I can dry my eyes out to finish writing I will send my little ferrets out to gather a rabbet or two to hold against the...

Good Morning Friends,
A fellow wrote and asked the following question;

I'd like to install an auxiliary fence to my tablesaw for rabbeting.

How should I make the fence and can I leave it...

Good Evening Friends,
The one with the correct answer was Sturdee/aka Peter.
another poster up here in the good old US of A said to use a good sharp chisel and gently work it under the veneer till...

Good Morning Friends,
A fellow wrote asking the following question;
I'm replacing damaged, peeling veneer on an antique daybed, and one area refuses to come off.

What's the best way to remove...

Good Evening Friends,
Silent C, you are the closest to what was recommended to him.
It was requested that he only use a dab of glue and rub it a little with a finger and then when placed on the...

Good Morning Friends.
Well it appears that no one wanted to try yesterdays quiz so maybe this one will be a little easier.

A fellow wrote asking the following question;
I've been trying to glue...

Good Evening Friends,
Since no one either saw this quiz or because it was Sunday for you I am going to leave this post on another day. As I know that there are woodworkers who know the answer down...

Good Morning Friends,
A fellow wrote and asked the following question;
I need to glue up an oak table top, and want to make sure it not only looks good, but also stays flat.

Should I use the...

Good Evening Friends,
You are correct as to make one out of inexpensive materials will help you construct the real piece because you will have figured out all the bugs and learn some short cuts to...

Good Morning Friends,
When preparing to build a piece of furniture for the first time, out of expensive wood. Why would a person first build a proto type of the piece he is going to build?
...

Good Evening Friends,
Well now, ain't this the pits? You fellows in the land down under are way ahead of some of the would be woodworkers here in the US.
Most of our woodworkers here have to be...

Good Morning Friends,

WOOD Magazine did a shop test on plunge routers and found that for the three depth settings systems compared, the following tools were good, better and best;
1. Good, Ryobi...

Good Evening Friends,
Mick, you are pretty close to the answer I was looking for, and here they are;
1. Always measure the thickness of sheet goods before machining mating pieces. Plywood for...

Good Morning Friends,
Running late due to a computer glitch.

Can you name or describe four surefire steps to sheet goods success?

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Good Evening Friends,
Here is an easy way to make your own. Thread a 1/4 - 20 flathead machine screw of sufficient length completely into the knob and mark the threads immediately below the knob...

Good Morning Friends,
Running A little late as I had a busy day.
Finding knobs with custom - threaded studs can be a challenge.

How would/do you remedy the situation?

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Good Evening Friends,
All of you blokes are dead on as the answer is indeed a Barrister's Bookcase, no matter how many time you repeat it. They are still the same book cases.


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Good Morning Friends,
If you are building book cases in a modular form that can be stacked one on top of the other, with a door that can be raised and slid back into the case.

What are these...

Good Morning Friends,
If you are building book cases in a modular form that can be stacked one on top of the other, with a door that can be raised and slid back into the case.

What are these...

Good Evening Friends,
I didn't know if you would have the resourses to answer this on or not.

Here is the answer for your information.
White oak 15%
poplar 11
ash 5
cherry ...

Good Morning Friends,
i don't know how it is in the land down under but up here, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, red oak leads the pack as most produced hardwood lumber in...

Good Evening Friends,
Running late.
Duckman, you are correct as well as the other gentleman. the reason for marking in the boards with chalk or crayon is to identify them in their respective...

Good Morning Friends,
Make your mark. A line here , a letter there, and projects go together more smoothly than ever.

What in the world am I talking about?

Respectfully,

Good Evening Mick,
Thanks for the info, if I hang around you guys long enough I'll definitely learn a thing or two.

Respectfully,

Hello Friends,
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle, you learn something everyday.
Thanks for the info.

Respectfully,

Good Evening Friends,
Well, friends it looks like I stumped you. The wood I am looking for is sometimes called silly oak, but more commonly known as "Lacewood."

Thank you for your support.
...

Good Morning Friends,
I am going to describe a wood for you to tell me what kind of wood it is;

Color; Pink to light brown with a silvery sheen. Fairly colorfast over time.

Growth Range; ...

Good Morning Friends,
Well, I must have stumped you fellow in the land down under as the best wood for cutting boards is Maple as it is closed grain and will not fill up with food particles.
...

Good Morning Friends,
A lady wrote and asked the following question and I thought it would be nice for a quiz;

Which woods work best for making cutting boards, and which ones should I avoid?
...

Good Evening Friends,
You are correct in not using the tack cloth and those of you who blow the dust off or even vacuum it off are doing the right thing as that tack cloth as already mentioned will...

Good Morning Friends,
A fellow posted on another forum the following question;

I was taught to clean off sanding dust with a tack cloth before finishing, but some of my fellow woodworkers...

Good Evening Friends,
Well, It appears you blokes have never drilled a hole that was not the wrong size. We folks up here are always making mistakes and once in a while will make a hole in a...

Good morning Friends,
Have you ever cut a hole in a workpiece only to find that it needed to be a bit bigger?

How would you enlarge a hole of almost any shape accurately?

Respectfully,

Good Evening Friends,
I don't have the saw with the teeth on one side either but a fellow came up with a tip that I feel worth mentioning.

He placed a round sanding disk over the plug sticking...

Good Morning Friends,
I had computer problems and was shut down a couple of days, but now am back up and running.

I like to use plugs to hide screws in my projects, but tediously sanding the...

Good Evening Friends,
Since I am not a turner I do not take offense from probably an old pro at turning and only post this particular quiz because it was in a shop tips section of a woodworking...

Because by using the technique in the quiz there would be less wood to remove while the timber is in the lathe.

Respectfully,