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I'll miss Japan Woodworker after my 33 year relationship buying from Fred and his friendly staff. My shop is full of fantastic high quality hand tools and supplies and I can only hope that Woodcraft would seek to preserve some of that good will and expertise. Fred sold me my first table saw and a few weeks ago before shutting the retail outlet, I acquired some very nice wood planes. Happy retirement Sally and Fred.

Another corporation going to communist china to take advantage of reformatory housed slaveish labor. Great news for preferred corporate share holders but, bad new for the middle class in Canada. It looks like this scheme for enriching the elite class has spread throughout Western civilization and IMHO, we are about to witness another World Wide Great Depression.

Fantastic story. My neighbor a young Japanese lady stopped by yesterday to talk about trimming back my very large Redwood tree that hovered over her yard. While she was telling me about the redwood debris she noticed the Japanese tools in my shop and started to translate the Japanese writings on the tool holders. Both of us were very pleased, her seeing me use tools from her homeland and me getting to understand where these tools came from and to better appreciate the quality of there construction.

Since you mentioned wanting a mortiser, have you checked out the Festool Domino joiner? I sold my Inca horizontal slot mortising attachment and table saw and I now use the Festool Domino for most of my mortise and tenon work.

Looks very nice and the finish really stands out. I would be a bit concerned about wood expansion pushing open the miter joints over time since there doesn't seem to be too much room to allow for movement across the top.

I'd like to have a Bryd spiral helix cutter head installed on my old Powermatic 100 planer. Anybody know of anyone in the San Francisco Bay area that does this kind of work for a "reasonable price"?

Tim,

Great looking cabinet, did you support the shelves with pins in the legs?

Just what I need another idea for a project and of course, I'll probably build one of these projects!

Fine Woodworking can go as far as Germany but, no presence in California? Come on folks even NASCAR comes to California a few times a year!

When will you folks do an event on the West Coast?

Matt, You probably have a lot more experience than I do and my lumber rack is similar just a bit larger but, I do have spacers between all of my cherished wood "collection" that I have been accumulating over past 40 years. One question that I have for you and all other woodworkers is, how do you know it's time to get rid of cut off's and shorts? I have a collection of shorts, narrows and odd pieces left over from years of furniture building and because of space limitations, some of it (mostly white and red oak) have been flavoring my BBQ.

Interesting concept and one that I can identify with since I seem to never throw away any material that might be useful in the future. New living styles in homes with wall mounted flat screen HDTV's and computer centers with WiFi connections throughout the house challenge the furniture maker to provide useful new forms of furniture.

Great work and I love the name of your business since my cars left the garage 32 years ago.

rob, yes I made this cabinet with my festool domino joiner. They make wonderful tools!

I attended a weekend seminar with Sam about 20 years ago at UC Berkeley and still have fond memories of this incredible man. I went home and promptly made one of his table designs and have been using parts of his design concepts for the past two decades. The thing I was most astonished with is Sam's ambition and his work ethic. The world has been a better place with people like Sam Maloof!

Thanks for sharing your solution and while I agree that the problem may have been over exaggerated, I too get brain frozen over minor issues like this and appreciate and and all solutions.

Great looking table and I specially like using recycled wood to create new beautiful furniture. I would love to see the detailed photo's as I need to build my wife a similar table for our entry hall.

Oh, by the way - the jury was nuts!

Cheap labor with poor training has been a problem in American for many years. I'm 65 years old and I have few relatives that were killed in industrial accidents but, I would never blame the tool manufacturer. Poor training and greed can sum it up very shortly. I guess stupidity can also be a factor if a person has been given instruction and then ignores those instructions or comes to work stoned or otherwise impaired.

Dang, did I pay that electricity bill?

I'd love this book perhaps, I might save a finger or two.

Hello,

I have most issues of Fine Woodworking from issue 1 on along with fine furniture and a shelf full of woodworking books. While I am a fair woodworker, my design skills lack any imagination what-so-ever.

I am about to embark on a project to build my wife a dining room table out of some wood I purchased 30 years ago, Brazilian Rosewood and I would love to come across an inspiring leg and apron table design before I commit my most prized wood to the shop.

I have been searching for over two years for just the right design and I would appreciate the table and chair book to assist me in this endeavor.

Thanks for this web site and your fine contributions to the art of woodworking.

Jack