Now those pics I can see. I was sent some instructions for making a honing wheel for my wet/dry grinder out of MDF, that are along this same line. I think I'll...
Yes, polyurethane glues, like Gorilla Glue, do require some moisture to cure properly. There should be instructions on the bottle. It really depends on what's...
Had a Woodwrite, sold the wood write. In fact I had TWO Woodwrites and sold both of them. I bought them after I had been turning pens for a while and hoped ...
Here's a website if you're looking for ideas to display your products at shows. http://www.woodlandmarketing.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been...
I'm hoping you can help with a problem with my band saw. I have a Jet 14 inch band saw, and I'm having a problme keeping the blade follow a straight line when...
Rick, I have a Sears 14" bandsaw that is very much like your Jet. The blade you use and the way it is set up has a lot to do with the drifting. I will not wast...
What blade are you using? What width? I found the best blades bar none to be Suffolk Machinery's blades, set at low tension. A couple of things to look for:...
The Timberwolf blades William mentions are the same I referred to, Suffolk Machinery is the importer, I imagine prices are cheaper direct, have not looked at...
Woodcraft's Timberwolf blades are twice as expensive as direct. Jim Lane From: Richard Kleinhenz <woodnpen@...> Reply-To: penturners@yahoogroups.com ...
In case any of you haven't heard, the space shuttle Columbia apparently exploded and/or broke apart at 207,000 feet above Texas during its landing approach. I...
jim, that is a horrible tradgey. my prayers are also with the crew and their familes. may god bless them. charles [Non-text portions of this message have been...
A friend of my wife and I does wood carving and he was showing me how to sharpen my tools using wet / oil stones. The tools turned out rather sharp. Other...
I am proud to announce that I drilled two dymondwood blanks, back to back, without it blow-outs!!! I took the advice of someone (sorry can't remember who), I...
How very tragic. It seems like this past year and a half has been one of the most difficult times in history for the USA, and here is yet another horrific and...
Technically no band saw blade will cut straight. what I always do is cut into the wood three or four inches allowing the blade to cut in whatever line it is...
Good job on the two-tone pens Vince. The light wood on them looks like either Holly or Maple, but the dark wood is hard to tell. In their photos in the...
the only negative I would think about with the oil stone is transfering oil from the stone to the wood. just wiping off the tool would not remove enough oil...
... I don't think you mean that. It won't necessarily cut a straight line at right angle to the edge of your table, but it can most assuredly cut 'straight'...
Hi Jack: I replied previously but my yahoo session was cut off (for about the 10th time today) so I apologize if this is a repeat. Here are some Canadian ...
hey, i just turned a crushed velet pen. its a gold color. when i got it down and sanded there is a black mark all the way around it. the mark is perfectly...
Zack So many interesting things you do. You just have too much talent for a 17 year old - how about sending some of it to me? I like to see a young person use...
Richard, I have a book on band saw set up and maintaince and it shows digrams for doing just that. I think it is a problem of slightly misaligned teeth rather...
Sounds like you melted the plastic and then drug it around the pen. Not hard to do with acrylic material. Sand it without the blank spinning using length wise...
Good point. Just the idea of dulling deliberately struck me as funny :-) ... shows digrams for doing just that. ... dullness and applying a stone to the side...
Actually if you look back William Lee gave the same suggestion. "Hold an abrasive stone to the side of the blade." This is actually dulling the teeth on that...
