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Hi Hem,
I'd suggest contacting Lee Valley by email with your concerns. As i said, i found their customer service to be outstanding, even though i was only placing a relatively small order. I'd...

Another great post Peter.

To any publishers out there, would someone give this man a book-deal.

Thanks for the ideas as well as the practical how to on all of your great jigs and devices.
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Just recently received my first order from Lee Valley. First time I've ever bought overseas on the internet. The experience has been very good. The customer service at LV is superb. I placed an...

Derek, there is nothing wrong with your logic. The marks left by a 800 grit stone have to be as deep as they are wide. The theory behind the Finck method is simply that the 8000 grit is able to...

If this was so, then why do we even bother with a 1200 stone?

Hi derek,
The answer to your above question is you don't (if you're a Finckite!). I would contend that because the veritas green...

Disagreeing with someone in writing is difficult at times as it can be harder to express tone and easier to offend. I am in no way offended here, just wanted to say that so my post is taken in the...

Col,
Just another opinion to add to the mix. I have 1200 and 6000 grit King stones and am very happy with both. The 8000 stone was a little too pricy at the time of purchase but the edge obtained...

Hi Ben,
I believe you are right in the suminigashi steel. The folded steel is a much softer variety, anchor chain steel from the meiji period is often very sought after for this part of the chisel...

Crozdog, considering the demands on these joints, you might want to consider a bit of a redesign, (hope your not fully into the project already). Your drawing cleared things up but if it was to...

Browsing through the new Leigh Jig website, in particular the PDF version of the FMT catalogue. At the end of the list of compatable routers "Triton TRC 001"

For me the presence of the Triton on...

Hi Crozdog,
I think your question may cuase a bit of confusion. M&T joints are ceratinly the strongest way to join frame members, so I don't quite understand why you wan't to dowell them as well.
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... the dust.... the dust
Read the above in a Marlon Brando Apocalypse Nowesque whisper.
I removed the grout between small mosaic tiles which formed the splashback to our sink and kitchen counter....

I have a good quality Dozuki and Ryoba and both saws will cut where i point them, its just that I don't always point them straight!! Just remeber that Japanese craftsmen spend many years in...

With all of this varied information posted (all of it very useful) one might start to think that this sharpening business was a bit like rocket science and may consider purchasing a book to get some...

True- doesn't mean they are safe :)

Very, very true! I once scared the crap out of myself after realising that i had just changed a bit without isolating the router first from the power supply....

Thank you very much Stuart for your reply.

Yes- there is a subplate that you permanently mount to the router, that fits underneath the plastic(?) base. A temporary plastic guide bit is...

The whole scary sharp thing is a little too fiddly for me. Little bits of sand paper, adhesive glue spray and so on, not to mention the endless sheets of W&D you'll end up going thru. Three...

..earlier in the thread that this question would start off another long winded, torturos debate. I'm feeling a little gassy so I thought I might add little more.
I keep reading about the...

Time for an update in the router area and giving considerable thought to the big Triton beastie. I've got the Work Centre and Saw with the maxi sliding table and have found all to be excellent...

Hi Chris

This is more an answer to your very first statement, the one abaout making starigt cuts in panels at a reasonable cost.
Festool have a a very unique plunge saw and guide rail system...

I have had my triton for approx 1 year now and wouldn't be without it. Sure if i had lots of $$ I'd go out and by a nice Jet or Delta tablesaw, but the triton does what its supposed to with very...

Hi John

Yeh, its just the stock standard arborwax. I actually bought it in a kit with the arboroil to finish some Jarrah, but on reading the product info and the fact that it can be used to...

Have recently bought soem of the aforementoned finish and I'm finding many uses for it around the shop. I've had the Veritas wheel marking gauge for some time and I've found that the beam tends to...

Hi All
Looking for a baby safe finish for a cot in the making. The cot is made from Jarrah and Tas Oak. I'm looking for a durable, non colour-changing finish that will have a low-moderate gloss...

There have been a number of articles and web pages on this topic as mentioned, but i also can't remember of hand. Do a web search, perhaps for "using thicknesser as a planer" and see what you find...

Thank you Ken, and Col, I agree that this is a very good bulletin board. Aside from the occasional spat, I have found this BB to be very informative and entertaining. I have also become quite...

Thanks Col
Thank you for your candid thoughts. But don't be so hard on yourself. I've read with some amusment the said articles relating to M&T joints, and although acquiring these skills will be...

Well put Mark. I must say I agree with your sentiment, If not quite your phrasiology (is that a real word??). Every weekend, hundreds if not thousands of renovators are out there doing their thing....

Hi Mat
This is certainly not my original idea, I borrowed David Charsleworth's techniques, but it has served me very well making 40+ mortices for a cot that I'm still working on. The most important...

the 2 piece body and screw adjustment for the depth of cut which locates in a notch in the side of the cutter? I think I have it but not 100% on the number, it's out in the shed at the moment. I...

If you owned a Holtey, or even a nice new Clifton, would you want to then plane on a workbench with a dinged up top, or perhaps one that was inferiorly made and danced all round the shop?
Once you...

A good poser woodchuck, I'm assuming that your question is somewhat rhetorical but for mine, I'd prefer the Clifton. A similar question is being posed by Furniture and Cabinetmaking in the latest...

Have fun Fred. But be careful, i posted a similar story regarding the ETA 300, on which i received a $60 saving after a Bunnings price match.

I received a lecture on predatory pricing and how...

Thanks for the replies. Although it seems that i could leave things as is, i went ahead and adjusted the ETA height so that the sliding carriage was just above (about the width of very thin card,...

Dont mean to go over old ground, but am in the process of fine tuning the ETA 300 attached to my work centre. In another post the question was raised regrading the fact that with the fence set .5mm...

Also called a twisted dovetail. David Charlesworth describes it in his book Furniture Making Techniques at great detail. To assemble it the joint componenets have to be offered up to each other at...

Hi Derek, looking back at the posts it is a bit hard to miss the "(in Perth)" bit to your signature, must have skimmed over it.

Hope your enjoying Krenov for the second time, I've lost count how...

A belated happy birthday to you Derek. From a lot of reading that i have done, it would seem that the BS is the one stationary power tool that requires the most tuning up and TLC to keep it running...

Hi badger, all the best for a speedy recovery. Thanks for the reminder to all of us, not just Tritoneers (of which I've just become one), about the hazards of our much loved power tools.

On the...

Dear Darryl
Hope your new extractor is working well. As a matter of interest there was an article in Australian Wood Review No. 30 by Richard Raffan on designing effective extraction systems for...

I'm no router expert, and others out there may disagrre but this technique has worked for me. I've found plunge cutter bits hard to find, limited in sizes and expensive to buy. Having said that...

Couldn't help but comment afetr reading the recent post on Taiwanese table saws. Im sure these machines are quite good but reading the posts, one can't help but wonder how much bang you get for your...

Although your newer chisels may be a little soft, the problem may not be entirely with the steel.
Although the idea of the tormek as a complete sharpening system is alluring, it seems to combine...

Just last week was given an older Ryobi 184mm circular saw. Remembering something about gift-horses' teeth i took it and said a big thank you. When i got it home though and was chacking it out, i...

Met a very knowledgeable aroborist/horticulturist the other day and somehow the talk turned to London Plane trees. Turns out the wood dust/shavings have a similar effect on the lungs as asbestos...

Seems like "R" the anonymous (read gutless) critic (see Announcements) may have got it wrong. According, it seems, to R this BB was set up to brainwash it's readers into spending up big on...

I hope to be very soon a triton owner and this very question has been one that i have thought a lot about. I think the Triton has an inherent design restriction which would make it difficult to...

I've only seen these new jigs in American WW magazines but it looks the business. I dont have a leigh but I believe that the M&T capabilities are more along the lines of the multiple type for...

Carba-tec have one - a 6" riser[/QUOTE]
I'm very disapointed. Things are slipping on this BB. A statement about a 6" riser and no takers?????

G'day Sandra
Unless you have a really good setup, I dont think any joint will be really tight off the saw. A lock mitre joint bit will rout neat joints but you will see the joint from the "top" of...