Hi All,

As you know Hurricane Helene devastated the southeast. Asheville, NC was especially hard hit. It's a thriving arts and crafts community with many woodworkers and many friends of ours. As a way of helping out I've been urging everyone to consider a donation to https://cerfplus.org/. CERF+ supports craft artists who have had their livelihoods threatened or destroyed by disasters. And if you've been impacted by such a calamity, reach out to CERF+ for help. They're there for you.

Thanks. Stay safe.

Ron

Hi all

It’s been a while but I’m thinking about selling some handtools and am wondering what ppl are using to ship and if they have had any bad experiences. Shipping prices seem to be through the roof lately.

Also, I see ppl are selling using zelle to avoid the fees of paypal - are ppl having any issues with that?

thanks in advance
Andy

If anyone has one of these they don't want I may be interested. They are way over priced on E-bay.

I have been procrastinating cutting the dovetails for the end cap that holds the screw for the wagon vise. So I finally got on the stick and did it. The first photo is routing out the two different slots for the wagon vise. Then the nut from a shoulder vise screw purchased from Lee Valley morticed in to the end cap.  The actual block will be screwed to the trapped that slides in the grooves. The piece goes in cross grain to with stand the pressure put on by the screw,  It has to have enough clearance so the block will slide but not have any extra room so it will not rock in the groove. I put coat of finish on everything. I will do at least another coat and then past wax so it slides easily.  You can see the amount of travel the block will have 

   

   

   

   

   

Next I started fitting the nut for the wooden screw for the leg vise. I have the block fitted and held in place with lag screws bit took it off to put finish the fresh cut ends. Things stay better when all parts have finish on then. Finish helps control wood movement because of humidity. I said helps control, not stop wood movement.

   

Turned on the upper oven last night..sparks started the fly!!!  Shut it down quickly.  KitchenAid, model KEBS207SSS04.


Opened the door and the heating element broke.  (the unit is 13-ish years old).  Did a lil' research afterwards and it looked like I'll need to pull the whole unit out to replace it.  Not too difficult, but I'll need a buddy to help slide it out (probably too heavy for SWMBO).

Checked this AM for the part and did another search and I think i can replace it from the front.  Ordered the part (WP9760774) from repairclinic.com ($195, which I didn't think was too bad).  Should arrive Thursday and Friday afternoon I should be able to do the repair.


I really hope I don't need to pull the whole unit out, but if I do it won't be the end of the world.


(I wonder what the repairman would have charged, all in).

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Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, I decided to make a pink bowl with a black walnut crotch piece and Alumilite resin. This is the first time using my pressure pot I am very happy with how it turned out.

A squirrel runs up the wood column of the front porch and gnawed a two-inch hole in the crown molding. Whatever repair is made will have to be sculpted to match the contours of the molding. 

First I’ll wad up some chicken wire to stuff in the hole. My question is: What kind of waterproof, moldable material would be good to use. I had thought of Wood Putty, but the label says not waterproof.

Today I was going through my wood stash and culled quite a bit of walnut.
This was cut 50+ years ago.
All of it is on the burn pile but I was thinking that there is still useful wood if one needs smaller box building pieces.

If anyone is close and wants it - come get what you want.

I would love it if someone could get some good out of it.

Toney

I have a brand new in box Lee Valley Veritas shooting board track, 16"

I purchased some time ago and then realized I would rather have a 24" track, so I never used this, nor took it out of its box.

It lists for $49.50 on LV's site.  I'm asking $35.00 + s/h.

I’m finishing up a rebuild of a State B4 OSS. I am looking for some parts but don’t have high expectations of finding them. I need
1. The lower collar for the Positiv-lok spindle rods
2. Rubber expanding drums 1”, 1-1/2” and 2” all 6”? long
3. Positiv-Lok spindles ½ X 6, 3/8 X 6 and1/4 X 5


Let me know if you have any of this you would like to move along


Thanks
Rick