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Information on glass
May 5, 2006

I'm planning a project that has glass shelves that span 36" and 44", along with being 20" deep. Being a novice when it comes to working with glass I'm just guessing the…
plywood construction
May 3, 2006

Help!!! For my kitchen cabinets I want the doors to be a little different than the common raised or recessed doors, so I've been thinking of doing rails and…
lumber end-checks: remove & re-seal??
May 2, 2006

Hey all, I just yesterday acquired 200 bf of Pacific Madrone (4/4 and 8/4, 8' and 10' lengths). I picked it up from a private seller who had milled it,…
difficult wood to work with
May 2, 2006

hi, I'm fairly new to woodworking, but very determined in getting there, only with handtools, that is. So I'm practicing very hard, for weeks now (in the weekends), in planing…
Red discoloration in resawn beams
May 2, 2006

Hello - I had an interesting result after resawing some beech barn beams to make some small boxes. In additions to some spalting, there were several areas that had pink…
Reusing wood from floor
May 2, 2006

Hi all I finished laying 2 wood floors this winter, one is oak the other maple. This is the prefinished 3/4" stuff with the grooves in the bottom. I ended up…
Moisture content
May 1, 2006

I'm building this bedroom suite and on the last piece, chest of drawers, ran out of wood. I needed enough Cherry wood for the drawer fronts and top. A friend had Cherry that had…
Visible glue line in plywood
April 30, 2006

I just started dying the flat panel doors I made for the kitchen and lo & behold, some of the glue lines on the veneer are visible. This was the…
Installing mirrored glass in a cabinet
April 28, 2006

I'm building an open cabinet with a face frame, 3 glass shelves, with a mirror attached to the back. I have never worked with plate and mirrored glass and I am…
Identifying white oak
April 28, 2006

I have read elsewhere recently that you can use sodium nitrite as a 100% accurate way to distinguish between red and white oak. Has anyone ever done this and if…

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