Depends on the type of work, but you may want something denser down the road if you find you’re cranking down on a narrow piece and it’s flexing. Even something with more plies like Baltic birch might give you more mass, but I’ve only ever used hardwoods for my vises so can’t say for sure.

Also recommend those cork/rubber jaw liners for added grip.

$6.4B for HashiCorp on the heels of $4.6B for Apptio and $34B for Red Hat back in 2018. I wonder how long until they expect each of these acquisitions to be accretive?

Recently moved over to porkbun after dealing with a couple billing issues with namecheap and not getting the best customer service. Been pretty happy so far.

I use clear matte Polycrylic on lighter woods, like maple. I find more glossy variants to have a plastic-y feel.

I recently started using Hassui ceramic coating on anything that needs to be food safe or water resistant. More expensive, but it leaves it feeling like natural wood and beads water

Great point. The jointer is another one that benefits from a bit of paste wax on the cast iron bed

Learned this one from Frank Strazza, you can make handplaning easier by spraying a mixture of 50/50 water and alcohol to raise the grain and soften the fibers. I’ve seen Japanese woodworkers do something similar when paring endgrain but just with water

That would be cool. I use linux as my daily driver, but occasionally switch to windows for certain programs like SketchUp. It would be nice to not have to switch

Pre-pandemic, Lie-Nielsen chisels were $55 and now they’re about $95. Kicking myself for not buying more sizes back then! Still worth it though, I reach for them more than any of my other chisels

If you see yourself doing a lot of resawing, a larger bandsaw would allow you to run a wider blade which, coupled with extra hp, helps make pushing larger boards through easier.

I have a 14" Laguna and rarely miss the extra capacity. I don’t do a whole lot of resawing and when I do I’ll use a 1/2" woodslicer blade which handles everything I throw at it. Otherwise, I mostly keep a 3/8" blade on it.

If you’re ok buying used, a vintage 14" Rockwell Delta is a great saw for the money.

Also, Alex Snodgrass on YouTube is a great resource for all things bandsaw.

Very cool, I appreciate the effort and response! I’m starting with a few basic patterns like asa-no-ha to get the hang of it and always like seeing other ones for inspiration.

Very nice, love me some kumiko. Do you happen to know what the pattern is called?

That’s a great idea. If I recall, there’s a similar type of finish in Japanese woodworking called shou sugi ban and it looks stunning.