Sander and paint makes me the woodworker I ain’t.

Trying to think how I’d fabricate the tiny little cruciform recess you’d need plucks escape key off of keyboard Either I would have to buy a bag of posts I could insert into a larger drilled recess or I’d have to cut that with a teeny little CNC router, I just don’t see any hope making that by hand.

I don’t think light modes were as glaring in the past, first of all monitors were smaller, second I don’t think they were as bright.

Maaaaaan you guys I tried a brush on polyurethane finish, and I’m glad I started with the underside of the movable shelf. That smeary satan’s fuck pus is coming back off just the second it’s dry enough to sand.

Mostly what I use that reveal for is to hide any imperfection in the layout of my mortises. If you try to set the rails right at the edges of the posts and you get it anything less than perfect it looks like crap and you’re doomed to a shit ton of planing and sanding. Inset it a quarter inch and if you miss by the width of a pencil mark no one will notice. It also provides some visual interest to what is essentially a collection of rectangles. It will throw more interesting shadows on itself.

The hinges are attached to the posts, there isn’t a hinge made to do what I’ve done here that I could find, so I had to dig some big ol mortises and use inset face mount hinge brackets. The Blum hinges are a bit pricey and if you read my other long, ranty post they’re weirdly difficult to buy in my time zone but I finally managed to get what I need.

MOAR WALNUT!

The biggest panel glue up I’ve made yet, 4 feet by 2 and an inch thick, solid black walnut.

thanks!

For wooden bank vaults.

That looks great. Excellent dovetails.

Just let me know and I’ll get you a list of tools not to buy and other tiny shop tips.

My workshop is a 10x12 foot shed. You can see fully 1/4 of my shop in the above picture.

The “I don’t think they sell themselves, but once you have the product you could search on Amazon” is pretty much exactly what I did with Blum, with miserable results.

Like I said, I’m so aggravated that I got promoted from Captain to Major.

McMaster doesn’t stock the type I need. They come in many configurations and several syncopations.

If I have a first born child I haven’t met him, so have at it.

Yes in fact I did, somewhere around “the usual scumbags” part. I thought “McMaster-Carr wouldn’t have fucked this up.” The only concealed cup hinge for inset doors they carry is the wall mount type, not the face mount type.

I haven’t really had an issue with oak.

I got some plywood from Lowe’s once that must have been made out of habanero wood. Every cut made the air spicy.

I’m not in a hurry. I don’t really like using foreign exotic wood when I live in a forest.

Especially mahogany. My area is lousy with black cherry, so why ship mahogany from another hemisphere?

From an old edition of the Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge:

An airplane’s tire will hydroplane at a speed in knots equal to 9 times the square root of the tire pressure in PSI. So if your tires are inflated to 36 PSI, sq.rt 36 = 6 * 9 = 54 knots. If there is standing water on the runway, you will have no braking authority or steering control from the wheels, you will have to maintain control of the aircraft with the flight controls, and you cannot rely on short field stopping figures from the POH if it requires applying brakes above 54 knots.

I got that out of the 2003 edition; I don’t know if it’s in the current issue.

Just thought of another way to do it: A stationary pinion at the center driving a rack that moves the router along the arm. Which makes me wonder if that’s a marketable product, if I could patent that and sell it to Milescraft. They seem to love bullshit gimmicky router accessories.