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Heads Up For Wood Phreaks - Book
Borders Bookstore has Romeyn Beck Hough's The Wood Book The Complete Plates on sale for $39.95 US. This 800 page, hard bound book has color plates of a transverse section, radial section and...
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Mobile base
Hi everyone I have been a woodworker for nearly 40 years, mostly furniture, now I would like to try my hand at turning. I have just ordered a Jet-1442 1hp with the cast iron legs. My question is: what...
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Anyone making purfume atomizers?
I sell a few of these and try to keep an assortment on hand, but have a problem squaring the ends with the tube.. these are the ones with the 15mm tube... Too large of a diameter for my pen mill and...
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Why does green wood dull tools faster than dry wood?
Anyone have opinions about why green wood dulls gouges (M2, M4, and Kryo M2) and band saw blades so fast relative to the same wood dry? One would think that the water would cool and lubricate the cut...
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Parquet Wood flooring
Hi, We removed carpet from Sitting room and other downstairs rooms and found it has parquet flooring. Now, we are thinking of maintaining it and I wonder if you know of any near Reading that does...
 
WTB: Desert Ironwood Burl
Hi All, I am a fellow woodturner and I was wondering if anyone had any Desert Ironwood Burl(s) for sale. Cheers Darryl Pike
 
help please - Iles vs Taylor
Onyone who has used both - what is your preference?
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fa: anyone feel creative - maybe make this tool kit into a pen pressing together tool?
here is a link to a "mystery tool" I speculate that this could be useful for pressing pens together if you do a little work on it - I don't need it and as sometimes happens, I'm out of space, but I...
 
Bandsaw blandes
Hi all, I thought I'd mention that Suffolk Machinery is having a 4 for the price of 3 special on bandsaw blades. I just got some 1/2" three tooth blades which work well for sawing up logs for turning....
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Taunton's The Best of Fine Woodworking
FYI... Taunton's The Best of Fine Woodworking (CD) was recently posted [on 9/23/07] to It contains tons of information and projects on all aspects of woodcraft, including turning. eNjOy! Subject...
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Looking for ideas? (and lessons in humility?)
If your muse has abandoned you and you're wanting ideas for your next turning - check out Carolina Mountain Woodturners galleries. These folks are GOOOOOOOOOD. Figure on spending some time going...
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More Multi-Axis Stuff - 3 Sided "Box"
If single axis turning is addictive - multi-axis turning is addictive AND "challenging". Relatively speaking, single axis turning is like checkers while multi-axis turning is more like chess,...
 
Musing about lead free folk toys.
The huge recall of Chinese toys is much in the news these days. Holidays are coming so this might be a good time to use lathe and bandsaw to make some simple children's folk toys that are safe for...
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Does your shop comply with fire safety codes?
Depressing hypothetical questions, but we might do well to consider them. If a fire department inspector or insurance agent came unannounced to your turning shop today, would it pass muster? If your...
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Confirming and/or denying what wev'e been told
It's still a bit hot and humid in S. Fl and getting close to indian summer in other places. Sort of a time out period for serious woodturning between the long hot summer and the red & yellow leaves...
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