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    How does a young guy afford this hobby? Or even get interested in it?

    I started woodworking about 50 years ago when I was 21. Built a whole set of kitchen cabinets with a basic Craftsman table saw, drill press and router. A el cheapo Craftsman sander, a couple of clamps, cheap set of HSS router bits rounded out my 'woodworking' tool set. Evan at 21 I was able to...
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    Killer shop - hope its not a repeat

    Tymes workshop http://www.lagunatools.com/videos.aspx there is a 2nd one too.
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    Neat site for all you wood turners

    Ran across this site that you may find interesting. http://pagesperso-orange.fr/robert.bosco/modeleen.htm You have to interpret the ones with drawings since they have not been translated to English. I'm not a wood turner but I can sure appreciate what's shown on the site.
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    HELP! Need old style Euro Hinges

    A lady hired me to remount a kitchen cabinet and rehang the doors that used to be on the cabinet. However all the hinge hardware got lost over the 2 years the cabinet doors got kicked around in their basement. I did remount the cabinet. Didn't know the hardware was missing till I got the cabinet...
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    2'x2'x1/8" plywood in Raleigh?

    I need a piece of 2'x2'x1/8" stain grade plywood for the back of a shadow box for mineratures. Anybody know a place in Raleigh to get a small piece like this? I wonder if the new Woodcraft will have it when they open? I have some 1/4" mahogany plywood that will work if I can't find any...
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    How do I make slightly curved raised panel doors?

    Anybody ever successfully try this..... If so, how did you do it? I got asked to consider making a credenza that would be about 10' wide, 36" high and have a CURVED :roll: front on it. In the middle the radius would extend forward about 12" further than the left/right of the cabinet. This is...
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    Big mahogany cabinet complete

    This is a 10' wide X 9' high mahogany cabinet I did for my daughter. There is about $1500 in material in it, 100 hours, and about $400 of low voltage lighting. Lights are on wall dimmers. All power and stereo wiring is hidden in the walls and stubbed out into the respective boxes/walls.I let...
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    Gluing after finishing - How strong is it?

    I'm making this big (10'W x 9'H) wall cabinet out of esentially 14 different sized boxes made out of veneered 3/4" plywood. They will have 1/4" veneered plywood backs. The whole thing will then get a face frame put on it. My question has to do with completely finishing the individual panels...
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    WTB stained/leaded glass mahogany door

    Anyone have any recommendations on where to buy (or have made) real stained glass inserts for skeleton door frames or know a company near Raleigh that would make the complete door with the insert? I need a 2-8 x 6-8 interior door preferrably out of mahogany with a full stained glass insert...
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    Buda stand

    Another daughter project. She had this ugly white stand for this big buda head and wanted something out of mahogany. I'm practicing my mahogany/staining skills because the next big project she has for me is about a 10'x10' mahogany bookcase. Corners were cut out of 2-1/4" square stock...
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    Plant stand project

    My daughter wanted a plant stand for all her plants. Steel/welding part was 1-1/4" square tubing. All powder coated. Full wood drawers underneath with full extension ball bearing slides. They still need the handles installed. Shelves are 1x12 redwood with marine varnish. Solid mahogany...
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    Where to buy marine grade plywood?

    I'm on a roll with questions..... Got another project coming up to make some outside cabinets that will have to withstand the weather. Current thinking is to make them out of marine grade plywood. Anybody have any other ideas? They are going to be painted so the wood species isn't a big...
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    Sapele vs Hounduras mahogany? Which to use?

    I'm going to make a big bookcase (12 sheets of mahogany plywood) and need to make the faceframes and two sides out of solid material. If I could find (which I can't) 10' long mahogany plywood I could make the sides out of that though. The folks over at Raleigh hardwoods laughed (in a nice way)...
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    Which sawblade for plywood and radial arm saw?

    Ok, here is the situation. Need to make a big bookcase out of about 12 sheets of mahogany plywood. 8 of those sheets are 3/4". May make a 2nd one too. Lots and lots of ripping and crosscutting involved. Going to use a 30+ year old craftsman 12" radial arm saw. The saw is tuned up and tight...
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    DaveD

    Here goes.... 62 years old, retired IBM software developer. Moved to Raleigh in 1976. born/raised in Cleveland Ohio. Started woodworking 40 years ago in the Army to maintain my sanity. 95% of what I make is for some practical need. Have done everything from toy boxes, to full wall custom...

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