I’ve done this with great success on kitchen cabinet hinges. I didn’t drill them out, just broke off wooden toothpicks to match the depth of the hole, covered with wood glue, put them in the hole, then put the screw back in. Works amazingly well.

Good list. The top two are on my list to make.

Interesting. So their docker-compose file can be used to start up a local server? This might be worth trying out sooner than I thought.

Diamond stones for me. I tried the sandpaper on glass method for quite a while and had no idea what I was missing until I got a set of quality diamond stones. Along with it I strop using a strip of denim with green compound.

Thanks, that’s a great website and I’ve been referring to it! It certainly has the texture of ash. You may be right. The color just looks kind of red so that’s throwing me off a little.

In the US most woodturning/woodworking supply stores carry kits. In this case I took the guts from a Harbor Freight screwdriver, turned a new handle out of cherry, filling the cracks with colored epoxy, made a ferrule from a brass plumbing fitting, and put it all together. The handle is finished with Danish oil.

Y’all are as bad as Reddit. Yes I see it. No it’s not intentional.

A sturdy bench is a good call. Hard to do much without a good bench.

For rasps the Shinto comes highly recommended. Otherwise hand stitched rasps are supposedly the best but also cost the most.

Finally made a set of winding sticks. Paul Sellers design. Haven’t got to the inlays yet - that will have to come later after the project at hand (Walnut floating shelves) is complete. I just wanted to make something functional for now and I’ll make it nice later.

I’m not sure what wood this is. Salvaged from pallet wood. Thinking it could be hickory? I’m not really sure. I don’t see any medullary rays like oak would have. The wood has a red or pink tinge to it with some gray streaks.

Yes for the most part. I have a small bandsaw and a (powered) lathe, and a drill press. I have a small space so large power tools are not really an option and I enjoy hand tools far more anyway. Sometimes I see videos of woodworking and the machines make it look so easy, but then I think about the noise, the dust, the cost of the machines, and the likelihood of getting hurt. It’s much more relaxing to work by hand.

@pinkraisons I just discovered the microblog section of this magazine. At least on kbin the microblog posts don’t seem to show up in the subscribed list. You might get more response if you start a thread with these questions.

I don’t have a lot of input on your questions but generally think a more permissive approach might be beneficial at first. If the magazine turns into a classified ad section or something like that then obviously things have gone too far. Woodworking is a pretty broad discipline though so it’s natural to have a variety of work posted here.

I don’t think it’s elm. It is on the hard and brittle side of things. I measured density somewhere around 700kg/m^3. It is pretty open grained. The brown spots are streaks that go through the wood.

To be honest I’ve never used a leather strop. I discovered this site when I was learning to sharpen knives. The guy behind the site had access to an electron microscope and used it to test different methods. He found that a loose strip of denim (fixed on one end and held in the hand with the other) with stropping compound worked better than a leather strop. I think for straight razors he added a step after with either dry denim or diamond spray. I figured if it was good enough for this guy it’s good enough for me.

I can say the denim works better than stropping compound on a flat wood board.

I haven’t used it (yet), but I came across it recently as what looks like the best alternative to Pocket. Pocket just changed their app for the worse (in my opinion).

Yes, quite handy.

I would say six in one. Two sizes cross, two sizes flat, and two sizes nut driver.

Thanks for checking. I don’t think it’s juniper just because juniper is a softwood and this is definitely a hardwood.

I think you are on to something here. Saw online somewhere that thin veneers can be made by edge planing a board. The strip can then be glued and wrapped around the tenon to take up the extra space. Think this is what I’ll try.

All hand tools from rough lumber, with the exception of driving screws into the wall for the brackets. Odies Oil finish.