Recent content by Brian Corrigan

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    Wood for exterior door

    Planning to make a new back door for our house. It's the door most people use, so it should look nice. I'm going to put a window in it. What's a good, readily available (I'm in the NE) paintable wood for that purpose? Thanks! Brian
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    Automatic dust collection

    At long last I'm moving my shop out of the damp, low-ceilinged basement and out to the dry, airy, double-doored garage. The garage is unfinished, so I get to start from scratch with the electrical system. I'd like to set it up so that, if I start either the mitre saw or table saw, the dust...
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    Wood gone wonky – an idiot level question

    I'm trying to make some old-fashioned wood storm windows for my 1902 garage. I bought a couple of 6" 5/4 pine boards at Home Despot, made sure they were nice and straight in all directions, took them down to my shop and ripped a 2" piece off of one of them. That piece immediately skewed by...
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    8 sided pyramid math problem

    It's too much for my meager math skills. I'm trying to build a birdfeeder for my wife for Christmas that replicates the gazebo-shaped addition off the back of our house. The addition has an eight-sided roof that comes to a point in the center, kind of like a squat steeple. I can calculate the...
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    Finish Deterioration

    Can somebody help me with a finish mystery? We've got a Morris chair that we bought from E.J. Audi-Stickley around fifteen years ago. It's identical to the one in the attached photo. We keep it in an addition off the back of our house, an octagon-shaped room that's mostly windows on five...
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    Bypassing safety key

    So, I bought this Delta ShopMaster jointer (JT-160) on eBay. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, right? Well, it comes close. But I didn't have a jointer, can't afford the real thing right now, so I have to make do. Anyway, I set it up today and was all set to turn it on... but I can't. That...
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    Help me choose a wood.

    Here's a photo of a Greene & Greene picture frame I'd like to make: It doesn't say what kind of wood it is, but most of the stuff in that particular house is mahogany. I would assume, since it's over 100 years old, it's Honduras mahogany. I can find Honduras mahogany nearby, but I want to...
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    Delta Contractor blade won't lock in place

    I've got a Delta Contractor Saw that's about 20 years old. The new SawStop cabinet saw gets here on Monday. I'm just a home woodworker, so the the contractor saw may be old, but there really should be a lot of use in for somebody with the time and skills to spruce it up a bit. It's the tilt...
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