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Does anyone have a formula for determining the area of an octagone? Regards, Greg

The cutter head on my dewalt thickness planer isn't parallel to the bed of the planer.  The difference is about 1/16 inch over a four inch sample, and is consistent…

I have two very large logs of box elder as identified by an arborist. The heartwood looks very nice with pink to bright red swirls. My question is this. Does…

I see that Lee Valley has added a new Veritas Hand Plane. It is a Low angle smoothing plane. Has anyone rushed out and purchased one yet? Any feed back? http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=45864&category=1,41182&ccurrency=1&SID= I…

Does anyone know an easy way to layout a perfect octagon from a 4x4 post. Thanks for your help -Jay

Within the last 2 years there was a copy of fine woodworking that had a way to make a jig for properly tensioning your band saw blade. In the article…

I hope this won't be too hard a lesson. I cut about 500 bdft of ash, maple and cherry with a new sawyer today. He said his Woodmizer could only…

I am going to make a shelf out of 3/4" cherry.  It will be a  fairly simple design, but I want to mount it in such a way that  you will…

I am a furniture builder and don't care to use the pin type meters on rough sawn or finished lumber even if the pin holes can be cosmetically plugged. Is…

Good Day Trying to locate a parts manual for a 24" Wadkin Band saw model BZB. The machine is out of service, missing a number of parts, trying to get…