
baok
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- Birthday 12/18/1959
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Broken Arrow, OK
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furniture, CNC
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Taylor Guitar company has a magazine which, this month, has a series of nice articles on where their wood comes from and how it's used. You can read it online here: http://www.taylorguitars.com/sites/default/files/Wood-Steel_Winter-2015_EN.pdf
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Wow lwllms. That may be the best response I've ever seen in an online forum. Thanks very much. I wish I was old enough to retire - I'd come over there and apprentice just to learn some of that deep knowledge.
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OK, I found this reference: http://www.nortonindustrial.com/uploadedFiles/SGindnortonabrasives/Documents/Catalog_PDFs/NortonCatalog-Bench-Pedestal-Wheels.pdf That answers the question of which grits I want. No mention of the blue ones though.
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This is probably well-trodden ground but I’m hopeful that someone will have gone through this before and can help. I have a nice set of oil stones that I use for ordinary sharpening and they work great. But I still struggle when I get my hands on an old plane or chisel and have to regrind the bevel or just grind nicks out. I have a bench grinder that came with the typical gray wheels. These things are super slow and I’ve seen many people in magazines using the white and blue-green grinding wheels but I can never find those. I’ve looked in my local Woodcraft and a couple of tool pl
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Very interesting. I should probably consulted the MSDS myself. Now that time has passed, the finish has hardened up. The whole thing looks quite nice - it doesn't look new of course but we're happy with it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Then there's Dan's Whetstones in Hot Springs, AR. Quarried right there. Nice oil stones. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Not crap. I like these types of videos as well as any other. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I watched the Epic Beard Guy at Silver Dollar City hew one side of a log with an axe so straight and smooth that it looked planed. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. Kind of puts me in my place. He said "You could do it if you'd done it as long as I have." Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Thanks folks - some good ideas here. You're right; they planed down to 5/8. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I removed some faux beams from my living room ceiling on Saturday. They were painted a dark chocolate brown. Before taking them to the dump I thought I'd run one through the planer to see what it was. This is what came out: straight grained cedar. Pretty soft stuff but I have a lot of it. I think I'll keep it. Not sure what I can make from such soft stuff but perhaps someone here has some ideas. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I wanted a box to carry around my black powder stuff so I made this. The dovetails are a bit sloppy but that doesn't really matter much. They are still sturdy and the box is square. This is cheap pine that I stained with some General Finishes Gel Stain. The pistol case is real cherry though. I used mostly hand tools for this project. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Very nice. I'm inspired. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Beautiful. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I was in Eureka Springs last year and called him on the spur of the moment. He invited me over to see his shop and I spent an hour or so playing around with some of their planes. Nice guys. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I feel the need to throw in a complement here even though I have nothing original. Nice! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk