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I am fairly inexperienced in finishing any furniture. I have used Tung Oil, and Shellawax in the past, but it was so long ago I have forgotten what to do.

I have made a bedside table from...

thanks, yeah its not to chamfer. I want to make stave drum shells, and the joins are 11.25deg so thats why i need it. i checked thee carbitool site (didnt even know about it, thanks) and yeah no...

Hey, looking at getting an 11.25deg chamfer bit.

looked everywhere but can only find it at carbatec, its a CMT bit for about 70ish. Is there anywhere i can pick up a cheaper one, i have looked on...

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quick question i have a tung oil coat on my peice that i want to put some poly ontop and buff out. Do i need to put anything between? Or just wait untill the tung drys fully (the can has...

what i did was use spray on polyurethane, about 10-15 coats, then i wet sand it down so it was almost paper thin, to 2500 grit. then i used some cut and polish for a car, cant remember the brand...

haha, yeah i do need to get the rest of them. im going to build a new 14" mould this week, well actually maybe not. i was going to do it today but have hard a hard weekend.

anyway yeah so i plan...

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hey guys, thougth i would share,

here is a shell i completed the other day.

its 10ply ameircan walnut. i built the shell myself (with alot of problems) Andy's Adventure in Drum Building

i...

yeah i have been making it so that it will be bent again into a circle. This is because its a little easier to work with 1.2 ply as apposed to a 0.6 leaf. Plus it removes the pain of trying to make...

Ok, so i have searched a bit, but cant really find much info on the net about laminating veneer to veneer not to a substrate like MDF,

what im basically doing is creating a 2ply peice of ply wood...

ok so I have finsihed it.

its pretty sturdy but a few problems, to get it level i had to stand it on a 35x90 peice of timber. The back legs are also not straight. other than that it turned out...

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IM looking for good and cheapish raw veneer and also some small sheets of bendy ply or mdf in adelaide.

anyone know of any good places? everywhere i have called dont have what i want or...

just one last question. IF i were to use the shellac finish could i acheive a matte finish aswell? just without buffing it?

yeah thanks, that other thread mine aswell and halfway through building it i realsied it wasnt sturdy so my thought was to attach it to the wall. I mean a folding one on hinges would be great. IM...

all i have done is tung on the top as i had some left over. I think the tarp idea is good tho. thaks

Hey, im looking for a cheap table saw in adelaide. My budget would be 400 max, somethign cheaper if possible.
where shoul d i look?

thanks

thank steve, you seem to be helping me out a fair bit on all the forums these days. haha.

ok so how should i go about this?

i want it so that it can be taken off or folded away, i have built a foldawya one but its kinda wonky. so i wat to attach it to the wall so it wont wonk.

i...

another question, I want to get a really deep colour (like not a tint or something but for instance change the wood to blue etc) but i want a fair bit of grain, i started ot play around with the dye...

yeah i remember seeing something like that in bunnings, like 5kg for some price.

i started using an old tee thismorning which is sooo much better, but i dont have many of them laying around, i...

thanks guys, i have some scrap wood that i will be testing on.

so if i were to apply either product would i do one coat then sand it level then another coat sand level etc untill i have the...

oh, really? i used a cotton polo shirt, and it was full of lint, well not really but like little fuzzies and stuff like that which i dont really want

hey, i have some of the wood dyes here that i plan on using, i would like to get the shellac stuff to use as a topcoat but im not sure as im pretty sure i read that it only needs one coat. I want...

Hey, sorry if this has been asked before but im wanting to get some lint free rags and wouldnt have the first idea where to look.

i want to use it for some finishing with dyes oils etc. so i want...

thanks for the help so far. I guess its more of a foldaway table more than anything. I just called it a work bench because its a bench and i will work on it.

I have almost finished it. I have one...

yeah theres a bit of dutch. my dad was shipped over here when he was one. And my parents never really forced leaning the language or anything on me, altho i kinda wish i did learn it so i could move...

Hello, im looking a building an easy foldaway workbench. something that i can take collapse into nothing too big as i dont have alot of space and want something to work on. (im currently working on a...

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im just getting into building drums and found this place which should be helpful for info on tools, finishes etc from australia as im new to all of this and there are some many different...

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I have been thinking about it and i think that a jigsaw will do me better. Mostly the thickest peice of wood i will cut is 90x35, accross the width not the length, i would just like...

ok so im kinda new to all of this.

what im doing is makin some drums and moulds to go with it.

so what would be better for cutting small quantities of wood, a circular saw or a jigsaw? and...