03-17-2010 06:02 PM
by PurpLev |
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I just posted this as a comment/response on another thread but figured this might be something that others could find useful. so here goes.
This short tutorial shows one way to create a compound angle cut on an edge of a 2×4. this can translate to any other situation where a compound angle is needed:
I started with a 2×4, used the protractor tool, and made a guideline from one corner at a 10 degree angle:
I then selected the opposite EDGE of the ‘board’ and usi...
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02-09-2009 06:28 PM
by PurpLev |
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I’ve got the shorts sorted out, but still don’t have a T ruler… one step at a time.
So I took the table saw, shop vac, outfeed roller, and everything else that was in the way out of the garage and started organizing the stack of shorts I got.
to the ordinary person passing by, I might have looked like a psycho – cleaning board by board with compressed air to clean the wood – from the wood dust on it (these all came from a manufacturing shop and were covered...
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02-06-2009 09:38 PM
by PurpLev |
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It seems like everytime someone says that he has “extra” lumber, or “more than enough” people jump to say that there can never be too much, as someone said: “there is no such thing is just enough, and too much is just right”.
I came upon a shop that closed, and they were getting rid of their overstock lumber. I got too late for the 5/4 10’ pieces, but I did manage to get all their short stock (cut offs, leftovers):
It’s mostly Mahogany, Ch...
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10-29-2009 01:30 AM
by DustyNewt |
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I primarily make small woodstuffs (my name keychains being the most popular) and I feel really guilty buying a large board of some beautiful exotic or domestic hardwood and then hacking it up into pieces that I can use. I feel that the board should go into a fine piece of furniture.
I then had an idea to email a request to internet lumber dealers for shorts and cut-offs that might otherwise be tossed into a landfill. I also hoped to add to my selection of woods for my customers with some i...
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