We are starting a new series of Webinars - "Behind the Bench", hosted by Rob Brown. The webinars are free to members. If you are a member you'll receive an email invite to attend each webinar. Rob's first series is on the Router. Part 1: Introduction to Routers and Bits takes place May 15, at 7pm EST. For more information and a lost of the other webinars in this series, click here ..read more

I sold my big Powermatic 3520 just before Covid hit and decided as I was no longer interested in selling stuff I would downsize to a smaller lathe and get back some of the space in the shop. Since then I’ve not turned much but the little Record Coronet Herald lathe https://stockroomsupply.com/collecti...vel-head-lathe performed really well and I have no complaints. Then 2 weeks ago I saw a Youtube video of a father and daughter unpacking a new Nova Nebula lathe and showing off some of the features. Intrigued that such a lathe had come on the market I went looking for more info. It has everyth ..read more

Day 2 of carving and I am this far, there are 4 sides in total, 240mm wide and 67mm high, the area that I am carving is about 3 or 4mm thick, the wood is eucalyptus ..read more

I'm listing this for an acquaintance. If interested, send me a private message and I'll put you in contact with him. He's asking $1000 (negotiable). It's located in St Eustache, near Montreal ..read more

The short version: I have a less-common size of Sargent bench plane in a damaged-but-usable state. I assume a blade made to fit a Stanley plane of the same width will work with it, but can I swap in a Stanley frog? The long version, with backstory: A year ago, this noob had no decent hand plane. I'd inherited a Stanley smoother (I think a #3, probably made around 1980) of the variety with the rough castings and painted-over frog seat, but was never able to get decent shavings out of it even after I did my best to clean and sharpen it. Of course, my technique probably sucks, but I didn't thi ..read more

Planning to build my first dinning table and got a few 3" slabs of black cherry. I'm at the stage of dressing those by cutting off the life edges but wondering how other people are doing that. I'm thinking to buy a 10 1/4" circular saw for that as the next step is to run those on a 6" jointer. Any other idea? Thanks ..read more

Building a garden bench for my wife for next to our pond. Attached is one side of what the bench is *supposed* to look like. The design is a spin-off of one made by Natsuki Ishitani (of Ishitani Furniture on YouTube). I wanted curved legs and the idea is that the curve was *supposed* to start 3" down from the bottom of the bench to allow for the short apron pieces to fit into mortises in the leg... Unfortunately, I made two mistakes. 1) I routed the mortise too deep because... 2) I extended the curve all the way to the top and did *not* stop 3" down to account for the short apron pieces (hope ..read more

building a captains bed with frame around to enclose mattress. how much do i allow for the bedding to be tucked in? canadian queen size 60" x 80". thx ..read more

I have 2 batteries and a charger for Bosch 18 volt drill. Also have drill but it needs a motor. Pick up only near woodstock ..read more

Just seems like I'm constantly getting timed out to the point I rarely bother logging into this site anymore. Paul ..read more