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Twin ills -- Laser pen & Earthlink
Well, my laser pen died this week, and now Earthlink has a "known problem" accessing the server for newsgroups. The second part I'll leave to Earthlink, but I need advice for the former. My pen is...
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desert woodturning roundup wood exchange
I'll be going to this event in Feb.I have available some local woods from South Florida in very limited woods are West Indian Rosewood.Florida Mahogany,and of course Norfolk Island Pine.I'm interested...
 
Making long thin wood rods
I had to make 55 decent miniature bird house perches in a hurry. To prepare long thin wood rods for feeding thru a hollow headstock chuck I tried pulling squares thru a die, also turning down with a...
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REVIEW - Supernova2 Woodturning Chuck - www.onlinetoolreviews.com
Hi all, I have just completed a review of the Teknatool Supernova2 Turning Chuck. You can read the review online at Hope it helps! A quality belt sanding attachment for your drill press. The WASP...
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Buying an Exotic Wood Store
I'm considering buying an exotic wood store. He caters to furniture makers. If I buy it, I'd like to start also selling to turners. So where do turners (I'm not one) buy their wood? Mail order,...
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Link belt replacement on a bandsaw and ceramic guides...
Hello to the group, I recently replaced an old worn-out "V" style belt with one of the new red V-link belts on my Laguna LT-18 bandsaw. The installation was not too bad, but the instructions could be...
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White Knuckled Death Grip to Relaxed Light Touch
Tonight, while turning a small piece of kingwood for the neck ring of a small vase, I remembered back to my early turning experience, not much more than a year ago. Early on I didn't know what...
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fs: cute rubber stamp, "from the shop of"
bought a box of stuff today, in it is this cute rubber stamp with a saw, screwdriver and hammer and the legend "from the shop of" - you put your name in a blank space inside the saw, it's dated 1988...
 
paper pot maker
Can anyone direct me to a site for plans on turning one of these things. SWMBO does a lot of gardening from seeds and this would be a great tool. TIA Marty
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oland tool cutter
looking for info. on what the cutter is called and where i can bu it----part number and supplier please----i looked but with n luck----tks,jo
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Headstock bearing noise - HELP
Hi, I have a General 25-100 10" swing midi lathe and its about 2 years old. I have just become aware that at about 3000 rpm and above the headstock bearings make an intermittent but sill rather...
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Crafts Sale
Our local Arts League had their sale this month. I sold enough bowls to pay my sandpaper bills for next year and that is about what I expected. It was a nice day meeting people and seeing what they...
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Tablesaw blade/trunnion adjustment question
I have a Grizzly G0444Z TS. The back of my blade when I rip a board is almost a quarter of an inch closer to the fence than the front of my blade and causes gunk to build up on the right side of the...
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Musing about being nickel and dimed to frustration or worse.
One advantage of musing 'ex ignoramous' as opposed to pontificating 'ex cathedra' is that I can be caught off base without being tagged out. That being so, I'll muse about dime bombs and powdered...
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Turning Balsam Poplar
I had a tree come down in our forest last week in a wind storm. I have been cutting firewood in this forest for 20 years now and this is the first time I have come across a balsm poplar. It has a...
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