Recent content by tim Rowledge

I usually use Fir or Maple for stain finished pieces but I need to make a bunch of paint-finish kitchen cabinets for our new house. I find myself wondering what wood is a sensible option for the face frame and other places. I know that on the east coast you'd likely go for Poplar but I live on...

After manfully resisting the temptation for over a year I finally surrendered and got an RO150 and CT33. I seem to have been on a bit of a tool spree recently, what with the Steel City 18" BS and the Steel City 17" DP and now succumbing to Festoolitis. And it's all *your* fault. I claim it is a...

OK, so I have a new bandsaw and need to connect it to a source of high octane electrons. The 18" BS is intended for 220v so I want to connect it to my pre-existing 220v lead that is currently in use for my MM combo. That lead has a NEMA L6-30 socket on the end, which has found connections. The...

I've been trying out hand cutting dovetails for the first time in 35 years (since I was first taught them at school in fact) and I'm having a lot of trouble cutting the pins straight. I know I'm not exactly expert at wielding the saw but I really can't quite work out how I could be making a...

I'm having trouble using followme with components. Two issues really I guess. If I draw a flat shape with curves - a typical moulding profile for example and then select the whole shape and use followme it extrudes smoothly around my path and looks fine. a) if I make the original shape a...

I need some more Tersa blades for my MiniMax 12" j/p. Has anyone found a good supplier in Canada?

I have a set of TurboCAD v8/9 discs+manuals and accompanying CADCourse disc+manuals. I don't do Windows so they're not much use to me anymore; yours for free if you'll pay the shipping, which I'd guess might be $30 or so depending upon where you live.

I spent much of today working on another cute (I hope, left hand picture) box for another of my cute (very, right hand picture) nieces. I carefully made a length of custom molding to wrap a nice birdseye maple top panel; quite a complex molding requiring a dozen or so cuts and routing passes...

I have some really nice straight grain fir that I'm thinking of making into a small cupboard; it would be great at the carcase/faceframe/doorframe stock. I'm trying to imagine suitable woods for the door panel. I have wild cherry that might work and teak seems a possibility. What would others...

I visited my local (-ish, if you count 30 miles away as local) Windsor Plywood store this morning and discovered that they have another enormous slab of bubinga on offer. They claim it's 173 bd.ft. of 8/4; it appears to be a touch over 5ft wide and 17ft long. A touch expensive at C$7500 but...