While readers had plenty of thoughts about what a Woodworker’s Journal T-shirt would say, it seems you didn’t have much to say about the rest of last issue’s eZine. One reader did have a thought about the lighting element of a discussion about building a shop from the Q&A section. - Editor
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Back in the mid 1930s, Albert J. Dremel and his newly formed Dremel Company were in desperate need of a new product.
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My daughter bought a nice solid wood table at a great discount because it has a finish problem on the top. It appears that the pricing sticker (about 6x8 inches) somehow adhered to the finish. When it was removed, the finish had a whitish color to it and no longer adhered to the wood. The finish is basically blistered and can be flaked off or sanded off. What is the best way to fix the top? Can just the one spot be repaired or does the entire top require sanding and refinishing??? Help!!! She thinks I c...
I have a 6-inch jointer and a 12-1/2-inch thickness planer. I have roughsawn lumber of varying widths. I am (trying to) make panels (sides and top of a cabinet) measuring 22 x 21 inches.I am ripping to something less than six inches to plane the lumber flat on one side, jointing one edge, ripping the opposite edge on the table saw, jointing that edge, and gluing up a 1/2 panel that will fit in the thickness planer, planing the half panel to flat and to thickness, then gluing the half panels together. I ...
How can I keep my glue from drying out and getting hard? I buy a bottle of glue and use half, then before I can use what is left, it is hard and gets thrown away. This is a waste of money and glue.
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Michael Gaule has been through a lot in his life – and so has his woodworking. The former French Quarter chef lost a home, damaged a shop and missed out on some great downed wood after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans – and this was after becoming disabled and choosing woodworking as a second career.
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Dremel is ushering in the fall woodworking season with its brand-new Dremel 4000 Rotary Tool. Based on added features that reflect what consumers want, Dremel predicts that this new corded 4000 model will be the most versatile version yet.
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Undermount slides (the ones that go on the bottom of a drawer, rather than its sides) are evidently still new enough that they raised some questions for the original poster in this discussion before he attacked his kitchen cabinet project. - Editor
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