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Lee Valley Catalogs

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Hello!

Maybe its been way too long since I have looked at purchasing any new tools... Is Lee Valley no longer giving out free catalogs? Appears they might be $10 now?

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Anything wrong with making the cut

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Say I have an 8wide and 7ft long board that I want to rip in 1 widths. I usually just set my fence 1 from the blade and make the cut. The other way would be to move the fence over 1 for every cut. I don'thave a splitter on my zip code saw. Am I doing this wrong.

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Central VAC for workshop?

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I really really hate having a shop vac to cart around, walk around, trip over (when I forget it's there when I turn around), trip overthe power cord to, just taking up floor space when not in use... all necessary evils in the current state of my workshop.
So I'm thinking of installing a central vac system when I build my workshop next year. This is something I will install myself.
One thing I'm going to add to it are cleanouts in the event of a clog to make clearing them easier.

Does anyone here have a central vac system for the workshop? Systemrecommendations - or ones to avoid? Size?
Any concerns with having a central vac system in a workshop?

thanks!

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Flattening Suggestions

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I have two (2) of these doors ... they are 21" wide by 42" tall ...

I glued together two (2) 1X12 boards ... milled them to size ... and routed the edge detail ...

They we flat when I finished ...

I left them set for a week while I completed and hung the face frame ...

Picked them up yesterday and both have warped ... the middle of each panel has raised about 1/4" ...

Any suggestions on how to flatten them again? I have considered running a sawcut down the bow ... half of the thickness of the panel and re-gluing and clamping them down ...

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Refinishing Work Bench

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Hello! Merry Christmas.

I am going to refinish my SYP workbench after I get it cleaned up a bit. I'm wiping it down with DNA, and I am surprised at how dirty is actually is. I used BLO and mineral spirits 50/50 last time I finished it. That still the way to go? Should I try 100% BLO? Any advantages to that? I am worried it might get gummy. What say you?

Thank you!

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Securing a nested box?

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Question for the brain trust:

I have a rectangular box top which is pretty large and is 4 deep. I'm building another rectangular box which needs to be nested in the box top.
When the box top is closed, the 4 deep section faces down. I want the nested box to be removable so I'm looking at various ways to secure it when nested and/or in transport.

Inserting and removing this nested box should be simple and preferably require no tools.

Who's got an idea!??!

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Tall deck chair plans?

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A neighbor asked me about building some tall deck chairs. I have build hundreds of the New Yankee Workshop Adirondack chairs, but never a tall chair. Any favorite plans?

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A Woodworkers Night Before Christmas

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[font=Verdana, "sans-serif"]A Woodworker's Night Before Christmas[/font]
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'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the shop,
Not a worker was stirring, all projects were stopped.

The chisels were left by the whetstone with care,
In hopes that the elves would come sharpen them there.

The tools were all nestled and snug where they lay,
While visions of woodshavings danced on each blade.

Then up in the woodloft there came such a clatter,
The whole building shook from the weight of the matter,

And there on the creaky tin roof did appear,
A fine handmade sleigh drawn by ten dusty deer,

With a sparkly-eyed craftsman as spry as a buck,
Who went by the nickname of "Old Saint Woodchuck."

He was dressed all in suede from his cap to his shoe,
And his clothes were all covered with sawdust and glue.

A bundle of tools he had tucked in his sack,
With a Japanese saw sticking out of the back.

On his face he wore goggles and a dust-mask fit tightly,
His cheeks were like rosewood; his hearing shot slightly.

His skills were the sharpest and best in the land,
And he still had five fingers on each of his hands.

Then quick as a chainsaw his staunch helpers came,
And he hooted and hollered and hailed them by name:
"Now Router, now Ruler, now Hammer and Bitbrace;
On Shaper, on Scrollsaw, on jackplane and Compass."

All ran to the workbench and leapt to his call:
"Now get to work, get to work, get to work all!"

So they dulled not an edge, but cut straight to their task,
And sawed, planed, pounded and scraped till, at last,

All the toys that the children were waiting to get,
Were finished and wrapped (though the paint was still wet).

There were jacks made from walnut and dolls made of yew,
And an ash rocking horse with its tail painted blue,

A set of birch soldiers all carved from one log,
And even a hand-turned oak ball for the dog.

Then the kindly crew tidied and swept every crack,
And Saint Woodchuck thanked them while stretching his back.

Then he jumped in his stout sleigh and let out a yell,
And they roared from that shop like a bat out of hell.

But these words he exclaimed as they vanished from sight:
"Merry Christmas to all-that's enough for one night!"[/font]

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Hand held trim router

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I have a full size Porter Cable but I have been thinking of getting a had held trim router. Can these routers accommodate a 1/2 bit or are they 1/4
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Shop sawn veener question.

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Well, not really veneer, maybe a little thicker 3/32 or possibly 1/8". I've been asked to recreate a sideboard by someone living in our house (we are MT nesters with a smalldog, so you can guess who asked). This sideboard has 2 serpentine front drawers and I want to make them as a bent lamination. One is 8" tall, the other 7". The laminations will be cherry and I have enough wood to do them. But I also have some more narrow pieces I would like to use.I'm considering gluing some of the narow pieces into an 8" wide board and sawing it for the interior laminations, having better wood on the outside and inside of the glue up.My fear is that a glue joint on wood that thin won't stay glued..especially when I start flexing it.It's not a deep curve, but I'm still wondering.

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workshop ceiling - to vault or not to vault?

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In the next year I plan on making a finished workshop area in my 40x56 barn. It has 12' to the rafters and then open to the ridge.
I've always had the idea of installing the ceiling at the 12' height, but it occurred to me today to consider leaving the rafters exposed and install a vaulted ceiling above that closer to the roof decking (leaving plenty of room for R30 insulation and air movement of course).

That would mean about another 3,000cf of open overhead space to hvac though, but it might have some advantages too. I'm not sure all what yet.
Perhaps to have ceiling fans, light fixtures, air filters, and ductwork that much more above the working area. I have struck my ceiling fans whilst flipping overlong boards. I know, stupid, but it did happen a couple of times.

If I install a flat ceiling along the rafters I will retain some potential storage space above and have 3000cf less overhead space to hvac.

At any rate,I'm just hashing out the idea and thought I'd run the idea past the Woodnet sounding board. thanks

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took years to get to this point

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The picture taken inside my kiln may not look like much, but litteraly took me years to get to this point. The boards in the kiln came from a black walnut I planted as a seedling over 50 years ago. Shame to have taken the tree down, but it turned out to be too close to a power line as it got bigger. The boards shown standing on end are from the batch in the kiln, and are over 8 inches in width. Clear, except for the one obvious knot. Quite a few of these will end up as drawers in a dresser I'm building. I have about 6 acres of walnuts I planted in the '80s, not nearly the size of the above yet, but should yield some nice lumber long after I'm gone.

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Cutting board- good idea or not?

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When glueing up cutting boards I always have trouble with the wood sliding around when I put clamping pressure on the boards. I thought about using my pin nailer to put 2-3 pin nails (about 1/2 long) on the side of each board to prevent the boards from sliding. Only about a millimeter of the nail would be exposed and I would place the nails in the middle of the board. I know it seems that you wouldn't want metal in your cutting board but I can't think of a reason why this wouldn't work.

Any thoughts? Thanks

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Mattress Frame for the 3-in-1 bed for kids

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Well, after a 10 years gap in building the cribs/junior beds/ full beds in the WoodStore.net plan for my twin granddaughters, I have another one on the way and want to build the same thing but the hardware kit HWK895 with the mattress frame is no lonhger available. I can improvise on the hardware but Ineed to find the frame. i found one with the dimensions 51.50" by 26.25" which is almost the size needed or I can change the dimensions of the crib. Has anyone built this crib lately and what did you do about the parts and frame? Or have you built a similar project with newer plans?Any help would be much appreciated!

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bendable wood slices

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I am trying to cut oblong slices from a 2" limb. using mitre (miter) saw. I need to bend them to apply to a round piece I am working on. Got any hints about thickness, techniques. I was thinking of boiling them and then bending over a pipe or something. but I want to do 50 so a pipe doesnt seem right.

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