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    Box Joint - Marking Sides & Ends

    You can use any flat material for backer board, including 3/8", 1/2", 5/8" etc. MDF, Birch ply, Masonite, etc. etc.. Remember you can just slide the backer left or right to get a clean spot. When you make your own, drill two sets of holes just like the ones from INCRA, so when the backer has...
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    Box Joint - Marking Sides & Ends

    The I-Box experience is like a Leigh Dovetail jig. It makes great dovetails, but if you only make joints once or twice a year, you need to re-read the instructions and maybe practice a little each time you use it. It is not an "out of the box" perfect joint machine. If you regularly make box...
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    Box Joint - Marking Sides & Ends

    Everyone needs to watch Perry McDaniel's video supplied by INCRA with the jig and I believe downloadable from the INCRA website. There are some other good demos on the web, but there are some really bad ones as well, done by people who don't have a clue. There are two procedures that must be...
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    Box Joint - Marking Sides & Ends

    I will PM you.
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    Blast gate recommendation request

    I made my own gates which I eventually automated. The slides go all the way through and have never clogged in over 20 years. The gate bodies are made from two pieces of mdf covered with laminate glued to the inside faces. The slides are made with two pieces of laminate glued back-to-back...
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    Particleboard underlayment and hardwood flooring

    It would still be a lot of work, but you might be able to remove most of the 1/2 particle board by making (a lot of) controlled-depth (1/2") cuts across the entire surface with a circular saw. If not all, it might remove enough of the particle board so you could attach ply without any...
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    Particleboard underlayment and hardwood flooring

    My floors are standard 2 1/4" X 3/4" T&G oak flooring nailed with cleats to a 3/4" sub-floor of high-density, water proof Advantech which is much tougher than standard particle board. The cleats hold well enough, since there really isn't much to cause movement. I don't remember how much sound...
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    Anyone automate their Drill Press Table?

    For all types and sizes of gears, pulleys, leadscrews, timing belts, and all sorts of CNC hardware check out SDP/SI (Stock Drive Products/Stirling Instrument at https://sdp-si.com/ I hardly ever need to move my table up and down, but when I do, vertical precision is not usually needed. When I...
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    Warm water coming out on cold side of faucets

    Was your house plumbed for hot recirc so you would hopefully not need to run the hot faucets, showers, tubs that are far from the water heater to purge cooled hot water from the line (and needlessly waste water and time waiting for hot to arrive at distant spigots? My house initially had a...
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    Starting over on dust collection

    I think you have discovered for yourself and accurately described the myriad of the problems, though not necessarily effective AND convenient solutions. Frankly, in many cases they are are mutually exclusive, e.g. a TS over-blade pickup that seals well and catches all or most of the dust, but...
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    Starting over on dust collection

    Good discussion- but chasing what in many ways is the unreachable. I've been at this since the early days- when Jim Halbert did the first experiments with a mini-cylcone (using a peanut butter jar!) and before Bill Pentz built his website. Like Bill, I was even blocked for awhile from Badger...
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    Segmented vacuum hose

    A little cheaper. It holds position but doesn't hold weight. I use something similar on my DP: Rockler 4" FlexForm. It comes in 4" and 2-1/2" https://www.rockler.com/4-flexform-dust-collection-hose
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    Piano added piece - achieving the gloss black?

    And there ya go. I knew Ernie would come through!
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    This is my first epoxy pour.

    One of the best sources of epoxy pour info is Blacktail Studio on YouTube. He does everything from smaller pours to pours on large $10K - $20K+ slabs. He also has a few free instructional videos. Check out his excellent videos, a good way to kill a few afternoons! Also, check out his shop-...
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    Calculating BF used to make a cutting board

    I believe they are posted somewhere on the forum, but I haven't gone looking for them. I got the design and construction methods from videos by a Russian YouTuber mtm wood. Here is just one example of the many he has posted: He has some really nice 3D endgrain boards. He started out...
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    Calculating BF used to make a cutting board

    Building end-grain, 3D design cutting boards takes a lot of board feet, especially if you start with enough wood for 3+ boards which is the best and most economical way to do it, (but not that much!) Otherwise you will have too much waste.
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    Piano added piece - achieving the gloss black?

    Contact our resident master harpsichord maker, Ernie Miller
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    Anyone had this issue before?

    Should have used white oak. Red oak has pore that are open like a straw. Also, wrong choice of coloring- it obviously was able to leach out of the epoxy. You can use Transtint powder or even plain graphite powder. Any place nearby that has a wide-belt sander you can take it to to take off a...
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    JIG IT

    I haven't used it but it seems to be a lot of money if you are only mortising hinges for one or two projects. The price does not include the templates, of which they have for just five specific styles of Rockler only hinges.
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    What color workshop floor would you do?

    Is this a thin, almost clear concrete sealer (which helps the concrete cure) or are you talking about a paint, epoxy, or rubber product? Whatever you use, add a good, coarse, and durable non-skid material to the mix. My second story shop flooring is Advantech subfloor. It is a particle...

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