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It's been a few years. Exterior walls have been opened, rot repaired, extended for insulation and closed back up. Another new 3 section slider window built and installed. Hall wall was removed. 4, count 'em, four, steel I beams have been installed in the cellar to hold the house floors up...

What Kim posted is traditional, and most of us with a conservative bent (in a good way - we want our products to be stable and durable) would agree. However, there seems to be room with modern processes, including torrefication, to experiment...

This makes the most sense for doing it on router. My set up on a planer is all manual, (well, auto feeds); but it is analogous to what you plan to do. Putting an actual 4th on yours would open up any method of inlay, etc. 2 different versions on my planer, for tapering shafts and butts. First...

Thanks for checking this & reporting! Bought out the plastics & phenolics inventory at a machine shop auction last fall and got a hundred ft or so of a product (1-1/2" diameter) i think the numbers are a little better than tomahawk, but have not had time to finish a shaft to try it. Odd thing...

Some of us learned stuff 50 - 60 years ago that is not cool now. Or we learned it from older players, playing for the cheese, and never thought about it until the fact that it did not make sense occurred to us when we were less impressionable. Then it's just an old habit dies hard thing. Like...

You are confused and don't know some of your own history. Manually operated multi-spindle carvers have been in use since the 1870's. The operator stands at the center station and manually traces a model in place there. On many machines the model can rotate, and is linked to the work stations...

See, that right there is why it does not present as old to me if you only look at the exterior. I have trouble imagining anyone going to the trouble - but what it looks like is that someone stripped all the veneer off an old table, glued up and repaired cracks in the core, found some repro...

If you are using an accurate collet in a finger steady, or reasonable quality bearing, or collet in the reasonable quality bearing, as the steady, then geometrically the whole set-up forces the bore to be concentric as possible with the OD at that point. The leaves only dialing in the other end...

Thank you Bob. I don't have cnc, so that is why the OP's post did not make sense to me. For furniture, i make long miters, but use "legacy" methods. :) Since some of my business over the years has been making tools & machines for other shops; i'm not at all inclined to buy. Just was curious...

That's older than the applied carvings, non-veneered/non grain matched legs, & overall style of finish make it appear on the surface. Maybe it was "restored" at some point, but i don't know enough to guess the maker.

Snookered, there are accepted correct ways to do a given job. Then someone always comes up with yet one more incorrect way to complete a given job correctly. :) So sometimes you just have to give it a go, and don't chinz out just because other people tell you you might fail. Do your way...

There does seem to be a sea change, and i can't tell if people are piling on the "garolite LE" bandwagon because so many people didn't know the difference, of if Garolite now makes other products? I actually searched before making my last post, to see if "Is Garolite a company name" "Is...

That M-C reference is exactly why i wrote my post as i did. They are about the only source that includes linen phenolic (LE) under the Garolite name. Everywhere else, "garolite" means fiberglass reinforced. Or G10 It is actually a brand name, for G10...

No offense taken, here, either. Mum's the word for reasons listed - fear of other cuemakers, not the "public" or "customer base" :) My best sources, as most cuemakers' probably are, is hanging around other high end woodworkers. This is a true story from an annual party in October. Couple of...

Don't use garolite/glass filled for the female thread, there is no advantage and it is hard on taps and hard on the joint screw. Use plain old _rolled_ phenolic linen rod. It machines fine & easily with HSS tools. However, like threading many plastics, it can expand under the force of the...

Does "should" make it a rule (instead of "must"?) or does the very phrasing imply some judgement on the part of the poster? This is a bit fallacious on the face of it. Define wholesale sources. Generally that means: Need a tax #, apply with credit references and bank info with your letterhead...

"That long ago, lol." Except maybe the rails, i would not have guess the table was that old. No doubt someone with more knowlege will appear soon. What size is it? Can you post s shot of the underside showing the structure and the slates?

I never actually figured out if the OP was shilling with all those pictures of product so people would contact him to buy? Or is he indeed really looking to buy himself?

Hesitation. Misdirection. The arguments offered against that is to the effect that "no one can react that fast" However, my guess is that a lot of times when a person has the yips (in any endeavor) they have already built that maddeningly unpredictable effect into the mental image of random...

true that. Yabbutt..... It's a little more complicated. Acceleration has sec^2 involved, which is not speed. And the equation pertains to the viewpoint of the object ball. Which includes how long it is accelerated. To use perhaps the simplest consideration, that is why a phenolic tip imparts...