WOODWORKING--Lets see if anyone is interested

My grandfather and uncle were/are skilled woodworkers. All I know about it is that it has something to do with wood.

My grandfather once made a mystery box which is so finely sanded and finished that you can't see or feel any seams on it anywhere. But it has several hidden compartments which swivel out on hinges if you press in the right places.

My woodworking skills are more prosaic, currently tightening screws on kitchen door hinges to stop it scraping on the floor.

That's about it, sorry.

The dovetail saw, is a "back saw" with these features mentioned above. The two benefits are that it allows for straiter cuts and cuts with a very thin kerf.
Ive read the manufacturer is "Very Cool Tools", so its probably a buncha millenials trying to become saw magntes.

If I can find one Im gonna try it unless its got some really outrageous cost that certain "Tool catalogues" that sell these artisinal Japanese saws and such xharge over a hundred bucks for a saw.
I can see prices for hand planes or patternmaker vises.


Is anyone herein able to handle a CNC machine (I mean can they pattern design and program these things)

I can just about handle a screwdriver.

got it. Do the nglih pride themselves in being able to hire the help. You guys dont have DIY as a "hobby" do you??

We do DIY, I'm not very good at it.

My father was a bloody idiot when younger and decided to play a rugby match after receiving an injury and been told by his doctor to stop.

He suffered devastating injuries and started woodworking as part of his treatment. He's done a few sideboards and the like, and they look quite good.

We don't get on, he was never there when I was a kid, and always took the other person's side in any dispute I had. As a consequence I don't like anything he likes, Yorkshire, cricket, rugby and woodwork.

The only music we can agree on is Frank Sinatra.

Im working on a small seris of cornr cupboard medicine cabinets. All the family members (cept 2) own rather Arts n Crafts or colonial style homes. The corner cupboards will fit in them. Im using soft maple so they can be painted rather than hving them show a finished wood. Ive already asked the intended recipients whether they would

1want one
2rather it be primed so they can paint it like they wish or finished in a wood stain. They all said "Paint" . I agreed because the Pa Dutch style
and A&C celebrate ebonizing and color rather than bare woods.
I know on friend whose wife hd hosen all kinds of "Birds eye" maple pieces in their dining room and TV room. Its kinda creepy to me bcause it feels like the furniture is watching you.

I recently installed a vinyl floor with knots. I constantly try to pick up the knots for the trash.

My woodworking skills are legendary.

Actually, the lack of them is.

In the 8th grade (many moons ago), I was assigned to wood shop. The year began, I had a block of wood. The year ended, I still had a block of wood.

Yup. A full school year and I hadn't done anything in shop. It was part protest, as I wanted to be back in metal shop. At least there I completed all the projects.

The teacher had mercy and had me write a paper on various trees used to make furniture. That got me a passing grade.

I was new to a school. So when the shop teacher gave me some wood and access to the tools, I set about making a small table. I sanded it by hand so vigorously I put a long dent in the top. After a few days of shop, I realized that the rest of the class was defying the teacher and just standing around. I finished my table, but the dysfunction within the classroom kept me from starting another project. My report card, of course, went from an A to an F.

I haven't yet set to dovetail joinery. Most of what I do has functionality as the main consideration though I won't set to something that isn't pretty. And I know I'll get some of the dovetails right but some wrong as well and then I will want to shoot anyone nearby. Next lifetime I'll master this.

dovetails are like watercolors. I only keep the good ones. I use the bad ones for kindling

I was not a legend in shop either. I had many truancies from this subject and our shop teacher was also our gym teachr. So, I paid th price by uncountable pushups or laps in the pool.

Your school had a pool??

we had a community pool that the HS had a lease during the school year. Many schools had some sort of a similar arrangement. Only 2 schools in our area had more than one pool and both were collges

That's what he wants you to believe, the truth is hidden between the lines. I have long suspected that Farmerman is a shamanic shapeshifter and this confirms it.

The pool is a pool table, and the laps are the saucers of milk that her greedily laps down, because he turns himself into a cat.



Don't be fooled, he's pure ******* evil.


I would like to go on record as being the first to spot this before JTT picks it up and runs with it all the way to the twin towers.



Proof of Farmerman's involvement with the Illuminati.

My elementary school had a cafetorium - A combined food partaking set up, with a movie theater/stage for live performances. I saw at least one feature film there and attended a talent show with my mother. I looked online and the school doesn't appear to have changed over the last 70 years.

We had no pool. No cafeteria. No film room, that's for sure. What we did have was a noisy 8 mm projector. With the classroom blinds pulled down and the room as dark as night, we learned about syphilis.

I want to purchase a plunge circullar saw to fit on a panel saw frame. The frames they use at a Home depot are sturdy but unbelievably expensive. Some of the school shop models are ovr engineered (like a MMercedes). Im looking for one thats good, and reasonable (under 400$). Wince these are the "new hot potato" in tools, everybody is coming out with their own models and all of em are claiming superiority.
Ive tried a Kreg system and its not satisfying because theres so damn much screwinaround on setups (unless we waste room with a permanent set up).
Any favs out there??