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Feenix posted:I know. I called and the dude was so nice. Then I went in the website and was like, oh gently caress I’m going tomorrow!! yea I was gonna post about that rumor too which has been around for the last 2-3 years. ""You hear hardwicks is shutting down?! No way!! gently caress seattle now" etc lol even when you google it  Hardware Sales in Bellingham is another good old fashioned store if you're into that sort of thing. Closed on sundays though which has hosed me over before, wtf!? Harry Potter on Ice fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Feb 21, 2019 |
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Feenix posted:Seattle-area Wood-nerds. Anyone ever heard of Hardwick’s near University Village on Roosevelt? Oh god how have you never been? Give yourself a couple of hours. The place is overwhelming as hell, but so drat cool. I haven’t been yet, but it sounds like Martin True Value in Everett is pretty good too. Plus they stock some hardwood as well. Not that I want more competition this weekend, but the SCC Wood Technology Center is hosting a tool swap Saturday morning from 8-1. I missed the one last year, but am hoping to snag some good deals on hand tools this year.
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JEEVES420 posted:they can all be used for something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS0zFjUgXOI I like this guy. He's funny in a dad-joke kinda way.
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So I finally finished this piece. It needs door pulls but waiting until we move some other furniture around to decide if we want them to all have matching pulls or not. This was my 1st time using power tools on a piece of hardwood. First time making breadboard ends and first time starting with completely rough cut lumber. As I don't have a jointer I managed to flatten the pieces with my ancient jointer hand plane and then trim an edge with my tablesaw and a jig. Also 1st time working with maple or with cherry. It serves its purpose, but I definitely would change some design elements on it. The doors are too tall and obscure the edging and curves along the bottom when viewed from above. In my mind I was thinking about looking at it at eye level, not down on the floor. Lesson learned. Also the big front door panels are totally monolithic and sterile. Now I know why the plain white panels on my bathroom cabinets still have some moulding and trim built into them.   I'm excited to do more with this maple though. I have a big stack of it and it's just got great figure.
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Feb 21, 2019 14:38
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Nice work for a first time using rough lumber. If the doors were inset instead of overlay they wouldn't obscure the bottom stretcher, something to think about for next time.
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Feb 21, 2019 18:53
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:yea I was gonna post about that rumor too which has been around for the last 2-3 years. ""You hear hardwicks is shutting down?! No way!! gently caress seattle now" etc Hardwick's promises to shut down every time the city does something like setting a minimum wage that barely pays a workers rent. I drop in there every so often since I live close by. They have some cool tools for sale.
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Hardwick’s was fun. I heard the guy answer at least 2 phone calls that ended with “yes, we should be here at least another year...”. I chuckled. Anyhoo. I got my antique brass finish handles. They look dope! I was careful in screwing the matching brass finish screws and all is good but one of them I kinda “tore” at the flat head a bit leaving a bit of a sharpness. Any way to buff that down without super scratching the screw head look?
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Regarding small bits of scrap wood, here's some ideas.
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Leperflesh posted:[*]If nothing else works, at least put it into an appropriate recycling or wood waste stream instead of adding it to municipal garbage dumps, if at all possible. If you have a woodburning fireplace, you can use it as kindling, but that's probably already really obvious. Would love some suggestions for this. I throw out my bags of shavings and would love to do something else with them.
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ColdPie posted:Would love some suggestions for this. I throw out my bags of shavings and would love to do something else with them. Neutral ones you could mix in a mulch pile? Some of it?
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ColdPie posted:Would love some suggestions for this. I throw out my bags of shavings and would love to do something else with them. check your municipal and curbside waste company's websites, basically. This varies enormously from one city to the next. Last time I checked, in my city I can add unpainted, untreated, nail-free natural wood pieces to my curbside pickup yard waste bin, but in many places you can't. At the dump, there's a special place I can dump construction waste, too, which is where stuff with paint or nails or any kind of plywood goes. Construction waste can be treated differently from general landfill, which is a small step up from just throwing straight in the trash. e. I just checked and now my local company takes wood separately from other construction waste, and recycles it, although it's not clear exactly how it is recycled. This is not curbside though. I personally just don't generate all that much wood waste, so mostly I use wood shavings to help light my charcoal when I grill, and dump the sawdust into my compost pile. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Feb 22, 2019 |
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Feb 22, 2019 02:07
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So I have a router table extension on my Lowe's Delta table saw (36-725), its just some plywood with a hole through it and my router mounted underneath. I just bought a Kreg router plate and where I'd like to mount the router there is a support bar that goes between the front and back fence rails. Would I run into any weird issues drilling some holes further down the rails and moving the bar to accommodate the new router position?
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Actually finished the construction of my bench! The top isn't 100% flat, the base and top aren't 100% flush, and overall it's a big ugly beast. But I made it and it seems to have come out solid and durable.  Now I just need to add all the stuff that makes it useful for holding stuff. Working on a rough crochet and gotta order a pair of holdfasts.  I decided not to bolt the top to the base. This might change once I start using it and find it moves, but so far it seems snug and solid. I'm consistently surprised when I push it and it doesn't wobble. Planing stuff clamped to it has already been a massive improvement over clamping things to a board across a pair of sawhorses.
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Feb 22, 2019 16:30
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I've been trying to give away my pile of scrap wood ends as firewood/kindling, but people are idiots who will just not show up at the agreed upon time to load up, so it's probably going to the dump.
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Some people don’t recommend wood chips as mulch or in compost on the theory that because it takes a ton of nitrogen to break down (being all carbon) it pulls nitrogen out of your soil/compost. Other gardeners say that’s nonsense. In my experience it does seem to take much longer to break down than bark mulch, for better or worse. The old shop was heated by a wood stove and the shop stayed muuuuuch cleaner in the winter. If you’re out in the country, having a burn pile to chunk it all in is great too. We used to use a ton of sapele at my old job and my boss would save all the scraps to smoke stuff over- it gave things an unusual spicy taste. He said he got the idea from some BBQ place in North Carolina (back when it was full of furniture factories) that smoked everything over mahogany scraps from the local factories. Cherry and oak and pecan scraps are all worth saving for the grill too. If you have a lathe, turning your own knobs for stuff is fun and uses up odd sized bits of wood (or Krenov would just carve little pulls by hand) and pen turners can use anything 3/4” square by a few inches long.
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Jean Pain did a bunch of research into composting wood chips, and would get compost with lots of nitrogen even though wood doesn't have much in it. I think it was only discovered recently that the nitrogen comes from the atmosphere. Anyway, you can definitely compost wood: https://permaculturenews.org/2011/12/15/the-jean-pain-way/
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Super Waffle posted:So I have a router table extension on my Lowe's Delta table saw (36-725), its just some plywood with a hole through it and my router mounted underneath. I just bought a Kreg router plate and where I'd like to mount the router there is a support bar that goes between the front and back fence rails. Would I run into any weird issues drilling some holes further down the rails and moving the bar to accommodate the new router position? Nope, the one piece Unisaw version of this fence doesn't have that bar. I bought a returned 36-725 that didn't have a throat plate or fence. Couldn't get the fence alone so I upgraded the whole arrangement to a one piece. I don't think you'll have any issues. The gauge is identical other than one-piece vs. two-piece.
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z0331 posted:Actually finished the construction of my bench! The top isn't 100% flat, the base and top aren't 100% flush, and overall it's a big ugly beast. But I made it and it seems to have come out solid and durable. If you want a suggestion, I would skip the crochet and go straight to a leg vise. You can make a crochet work (I did for a couple years), but a vise is much easier to work with. Vise-less bench is pretty terrible for cutting tenons, trust me. E: I may have already told you this. If so, sorry.
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z0331 posted:Actually finished the construction of my bench! The top isn't 100% flat, the base and top aren't 100% flush, and overall it's a big ugly beast. But I made it and it seems to have come out solid and durable. ColdPie posted:If you want a suggestion, I would skip the crochet and go straight to a leg vise. You can make a crochet work (I did for a couple years), but a vise is much easier to work with. Vise-less bench is pretty terrible for cutting tenons, trust me. I'll echo ColdPie's suggestion. I put a vise on mine using a ~$35 screw off amazon and 3 pieces of 3/4" red oak that I laminated together.
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I built that bench and put a vice on it with a $15 pipe clamp, a $3 pipe, and also 3 pieces of 3/4 oak.
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   Nothing ultra fancy but I turned a live edge remnant (Black Cherry) into a serving/cheeseboard for my kid’s school’s fundraiser auction. I think it came out very nice and I’m glad I went to Hardwick’s for the handles. Wet sanded to 2000 in steps with mineral oil, then finished with butcher block paste. Feenix fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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If I had some cash on me today I could have picked up some decent koa wood from a possibly shady source. Not sure how I feel about the whole thing
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:wood from a possibly shady source 
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:If I had some cash on me today I could have picked up some decent koa wood from a possibly shady source. Not sure how I feel about the whole thing "Psst..." *Looks around nervously, starts opening trench coat...* "Let me show you some wood..."
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My dado stack arrived in the mail today So I get the wrenches out, pop the throat plate out, give the nut on the arbor a good yank And a mystery screw falls from my table saw to the shop floor. ........ Well that's disconcerting.
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Sockser posted:My dado stack arrived in the mail today It could be nothing... it could be you sliced in half by a flying blade...
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Just chuck a handful of similar bits from your random nuts and bolts bin down there with it, then you don’t have to worry.
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I finally, finally finished the dresser I've been working on. Life gets in the way of woodworking too much. Cherry with walnut, BLO + wax. All angles are 10 degrees because apparently I like 10? Who knows.    I regret admitting this but I have gotten to the point where I prefer just using a through-domino to make my drawers. They're super simple, look more interesting than dowels or dowelled screws, and are bomb-proof. I am getting very lazy :/
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That looks amazing. I love the look of classic half-blind dovetails, but if dominoes is what it takes to get it out of the workshop and into the house then I ain’t going to judge. Also if I had that many drawers to do I’d want to make it faster :s Again, real nice job. I love the detailing on the drawer fronts. It’s just enough to keep it interesting without going over the top.
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Tim Thomas posted:I finally, finally finished the dresser I've been working on. Life gets in the way of woodworking too much. That's so pretty. I hope to make things look this nice someday.
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Speaking of Hardwick's in Seattle, I guess they put this out 30 minutes before I bought it. 
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That Works posted:I'll echo ColdPie's suggestion. I put a vise on mine using a ~$35 screw off amazon and 3 pieces of 3/4" red oak that I laminated together. Hm I was hoping to get away without a vice at first but I guess maybe it’s worth just getting it out of the way. The leg vice is really impressive looking anyway. In the meantime I made my first ever dovetail! Not too terrible for a first try with hand tools. Obvious gaps but it fits snug and only took a little bit of cleanup before sliding together.   
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Tim Thomas posted:I finally, finally finished the dresser I've been working on. Life gets in the way of woodworking too much. nice
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Had a good day in the shop today. I squared up the stock for the breadboard ends, then got the top of the tabletop most of the way ready for finishing, so I wouldn't have to try to awkwardly plane it with the cross-grain breadboard ends on. Last step will be scraping down the remaining plane tracks. Knowing I was going to have to scrape about 25 sq ft of tabletop, I bought a No 80 scraper at a tool sale a while back. Killing time waiting for the bus to go home, I sharpened it up today and tested it on some scrap. This thing is so nice compared to a regular card scraper. Some firm downward pressure and the plane tracks go away with tiny shavings. Great tool. I'm really pleased with how the top is turning out. I've had a lot of trouble getting flat panel glueups in the past, but this has been mostly trouble-free. Next challenge will be sawing a 3.5' wide tenon without messing the whole thing up.  
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So I am thinking of getting a small table top planer like Dewalt makes. https://www.dewalt.com/products/pow...s-planer/dw735x Anyone have advice or opinions on what to get? I am going to be building a bench, and don't want to plane down 32+ boards a quarter of an inch.
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DevNull posted:So I am thinking of getting a small table top planer like Dewalt makes. https://www.dewalt.com/products/pow...s-planer/dw735x ColdPie posted:Had a good day in the shop today. I squared up the stock for the breadboard ends, then got the top of the tabletop most of the way ready for finishing, so I wouldn't have to try to awkwardly plane it with the cross-grain breadboard ends on. Last step will be scraping down the remaining plane tracks. Knowing I was going to have to scrape about 25 sq ft of tabletop, I bought a No 80 scraper at a tool sale a while back. Killing time waiting for the bus to go home, I sharpened it up today and tested it on some scrap. This thing is so nice compared to a regular card scraper. Some firm downward pressure and the plane tracks go away with tiny shavings. Great tool.
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DevNull posted:Speaking of Hardwick's in Seattle, I guess they put this out 30 minutes before I bought it. gently caress, poo poo, goddamn. I wasn’t even looking for this when I went in and STILL I feel like I got robbed. Nice find.
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Replacement workmate finally came in, SO much easier for planing being able to clamp down on the wood. I seem to have gone about the saw thing in reverse, have a circular saw but no hand saw. What's a good recommendation for a handsaw if you could only have one? I'll be using the circular for big work, but need something for smaller cuts. Two sided Japanese saws are appealing just because it's both a rip and crosscut saw, but that's just me speculating.
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Bob Mundon posted:Replacement workmate finally came in, SO much easier for planing being able to clamp down on the wood.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:The $20 Japanese style Irwin/Marples saws at big box stores are great. I only ever use the fine side, but they’re sharp as poo poo. Can’t resharpen them and the teeth will break, but they’re cheap enough who cares? I definitely prefer a backsaw for dovetails, but otherwise that’s the saw I reach for 90% of the time when I need a handsaw. Can you link? I'm searching Home Depot with no luck, but I need a good reliable hand saw.
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