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Well, in defense of HF battery power drill, and that's the only battery powered tool I have ever purchased there, they lasted on average 4 to 5 years. When the batteries go bad they've usually changed the design and I just buy a new drill with two batteries. The brand names WILL charge you $75 or mo...

Well, I don't know your situation, but I don't recommend getting rid of everything with retirement and a move, or just a move. Moving is high on the stress scale; up there with divorce and death of a spouce! Being surrounded by things we love and love doing lessens the stress and keeps one healthy. ...

I agree with Ed, don't sell shellac short. Everyone should learn how to French polish and cultivate this time honored art - it's not that hard. Shellac isn't for everywhere, nothing is, but it is easy to fix and comes in a medium, ethanol, that is relatively harmless to the finisher. It dries quickl...

14" long, by 3/4" wide by 3/16" thick. Mine are blued and turned up on one end by 2-1/2" in an arc that can be duplicated using a 6" diameter circumference. The bluing makes me think the spring was tempered into the steel after bending the ends. Anyone out there know about t...

I would think you could find some spring steel and make a pair of these. Not sure how they temper the spring in the steel, but that could be researched I'm sure. Then you could buy regular steel and temper the spring into it once it was properly shaped. If you need the dimensions on the springs let ...

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Here is a pic with the lights in the hutch area on. You can put them on a setting and they will flash, slowly, 18 diferent colors. The LED strip was paper thin and comes with remote control.

Ok, here goes a first and thanks for the link on how to post pics. [ATTACH]20754[/ATTACH] This pic includes my wife's grandmother's dining room table about 100 years old. The hutch I started in November and finished in February. I installed LED lights, to include colored lights in the hutch area. I ...

I just finished building a bar for the dining room. Actually, I copied, and adjusted to my needs, an 18th C. hutch with a granite top the separates the bottom from the hutch/cupboard above. In any event, I built it out of quarter sawn oak. The wife wanted it to match the old antique oak pieces she h...

Ok guys and gals I'll share a story about my Mark 5 driven jointer that happened about twenty five years ago. One cold Saturday morning I was jointing wood after having ripped it on my contractor's saw. I was appropriately dressed in a plaid cotton work shirt, but inappropriate in that I hadn't tuck...

So it was begun with the Mark 5. Interesting. I wonder why they don't make something like this yet today? I suppose that is a stupid question given if it made money they would make it. Thanks for the info JPD.