Issue 65
Issue 65
Rob’s Holiday Wish List
If your house is anything like mine, the conclusion of the Thanksgiving Dinner kicks off the season of “the well-placed list.” Suddenly, and seemingly conjured out of thin air, handwritten notes consisting of a given name and a string of consumables are stuck to bedroom doors, refrigerators, medicine cabinets, steering wheels, underwear drawers, shower heads, dishwasher panels, toolbox lids, lunch boxes, checkbooks … and so on. I find these lists both eminently practical and informative. Few communications tell you more about what’s going on with a loved one than a glimpse into their “heart’s desire.”
So why don’t you let us into your world? If you were to be posting a wish list, what would it contain? I’m talking tools and woodworking here. (But, this being a free-wheeling eZine, don’t let that constrain you!) Are you looking for a new tool or that perfect piece of cocobolo? Perhaps you would prefer to curl up with a new woodworking book … which one would that be? Let me know and I’ll share your thoughts with the gang here in our next Reader’s Response page. And, who knows, perhaps it will give you opportunity to email a “well -placed link” to someone … just on the off chance they were wondering what might be your heart’s desire.
Rob Johnstone, Woodworker’s Journal
Today's Woodworker
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Nathan Stanley: Making Music with Wood and Bars into Cathedrals
When Nathan Stanley came back to Minneapolis in the late 1980s, he wasn’t sure what he’d be doing next.
Industry Interviews
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Festool: Tools That Work Like Nothing Else!
When Festool set up shop in the United States, they decided they needed a new tag line. They came up with “Like nothing else” to introduce the line of unique hand tools for professional woodworkers.
Q & A
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Is There an “Average” Price for Wood?
This reader is trying to figure out if he’s overpaying for wood.
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Does Top Price Always Equal Top Quality?
A woodworker poses a rather philosophical question about router bits.
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Accurate to the Nth Degree
This experienced woodworker is having more and more trouble making accurate cuts.
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Out-feed Table for Powermatic 66
This woodworker from Cyprus wants to know about potential outfeed tables for his Powermatic saw.
What's In Store
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Bosch: Getting Around to a New Rotary
Rotary saws aren’t just for drywall anymore, which is one reason Bosch has revamped their offering into the new 1639 rotary saw.
Feedback
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More on Carbide Cutters
Hank Merkle wondered if Eric Armstrong was really talking about titanium drill bits … or titanium nitride-coated drill bits.
