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Carpenter's levels are not great straight edge tools. A good starrett straightedge will likely cost as much or more than your starrett machinist level. Unless you have the Master 199, those are expensive. If the carpenters level is evenly crowned (and how do you determine that?) but let's assume...

Many door shims are cedar or soft wood. Hardwood shims are best, but many are produced with too great an angle for fine tuning and too little purchase into the gap when installed. I take hardwood shims, and "plane" them down on a belt sander mounted upside down in a large vise. b.nut

When your rep says that the subject of the nose height has never come up, I have trouble believing that. I have had experience with manufacturers and vendors in various businesses who use that excuse (never been a complaint) repetitively to each person who points out something like this. My...

Sounds like cobra has been there and done that. I have many personal testamonials about the polyol product, particulary from the community of folks restoring antique autos, the really old vehicles that have sheet metal wrapped around a wooden sub-structure. Products like this can save some of...

Doing an overhaul of an older Olhausen, and encountered a problem with the particle board slate backing; it is crumbling apart. Ahem, "the best in billiards." To be somewhat fair, it looks like it has had a couple of re-felts, but the staple removals have really torn chunks out of the backing...