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What are these white fibers emanating from the inside of my lignum vitae lidded box?
Several months ago I turned this lignum vitae lidded box. The first thing I noticed after completing it was how quickly the wood changed color in the sunlight, going from a just-turned honey brown to a very dark brown in only a couple of hours.
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Glue-up for butcher block-style countertop
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I am working on a butcher block style countertop / tabletop, and am wondering how best to glue the wood together. The countertop is unfinished maple hardwood floor, with the tongue / groove cut off, flipped on its side. So, the final…
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How to create a pyramidal panel for a door?
I am working on a design for a hardwood door that would feature square, pyramidal panels. In masonry such shapes are called "diamonds". The question is how to shape the panels and do the joinery into the structural members of the door. I have shown…
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How to set up a Veritas Basic Grinding jig with short chisels
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I need to regrind new bevels on some old worn-out chisels, without
using free-hand techniques, which I know how to do already. After
some belabored research on grinding jigs, I purchased a Veritas® Basic Grinding Set1 for use with my 6"…
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How to scorch to darken a part of a piece of wood and not the other?
I intend draw a dark line 50mm / 2" large using a blowtorch on a piece of pine wood, but how to have a nice & clean line border ?
I thought of using sacrificial wood pieces or aluminium sheets as flame barrier but honestly I've no idea where to…
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Filling cracks with epoxy after Tung oil
So still working on my live edge walnut table, and I think I may have screwed up the order of operations a bit. The slab has some defects - cracks, small knots with voids, etc. Didn't think to much of it - just part of working with this type of…
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Using Tung oil over Boiled Linseed Oil
I have been seeing some contested information about which oil I should use between the two. I found several sites with verbage like this one from CanadianWoodworking
So I started researching and found that the information available about tung oil…
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What is this hand tool with handles similar to a spokeshave? It has different selectable profiles around the edge of a disc
Can anyone identify this? Woodworking tool?
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Endgrain screw withdrawal force
The engineering toolbox has a screw withdrawal strength calculator but it assumes the screws are perpendicular to the grain.
I could not find a calculator for screws installed parallel to the grain, but I did find a nice meta-analysis of endgrain…
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Metal framed wood table, will expansion be an issue?
I've got a good deal of wood scraps from other projects laying about and am thinking of making a colored epoxy table, something like this:
Where the blocks are my scraps, the area between will be filled with epoxy, and the outside would be steel…
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Best setup to make dovetails
I'm trying to figure out the best way to make clean dovetails joints using a router (maybe?). I've tried by hand, results were not so good. I got excited a while back and bought one of those porter cable router jigs. It kind of worked but chipped…
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How does a variable speed control mechanism work?
To change speeds on many drill presses and lathes, the user needs to turn off the machine, and manually move the belts between a variety of pulleys.
On a machine with variable speed control, the user can simply adjust a lever to change the speed. On…
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Mouth of a Plane
I often read about planes that have adjustable mouths, that you can make smaller for finer shavings.
How does this work? Isn't the size of the shaving a function of how much the blade protrudes? It makes sense that a large mouth allows larger…
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How to cross cut long board on a table saw
Years ago I used a Bosch table saw for just about everything you could.
I just jumped back into woodworking. I bought the mist expensive saw I could find at my Home Depot, a $579 Heavy Duty Skilsaw table saw…
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How much extra thickness should I leave when rough milling green boards?
When rough milling boards from a green log, is there a good rule of thumb or something to determine how much thicker I should slice them than my desired target thickness? Does it differ depending on the cut? I want to account for warping during…
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