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Ah, I get it, thanks TC. I thought you were talking about the white guide on the tail vise.

What is a saw stop? I am planning to build one like yours but never heard of the saw stop.

LOL...that was funny, got me!!

M1FDS you need to step away from the coffee and lighten up a bit.

My first half blind dovetails were made with a cheap japanese cross cut saw and a set of irwin cheap chisels. They came out perfect. It is a poor craftsman the one who blames his tools.

I would have done it a different way, but your solution works and it is elegant as well. Nicely done.

Most saws come with a blade guard. It is the first thing that it is taken off so that you can align your cut, make kerf cuts, etc, and they do the same job as this gizmo, let you know your fingers are too close if you touch it. This is no substitute for the Saw Stop technology. And no, I am not a Saw Stop "shill" nor do I own one, nor do I care about Gass' personality. In fact even if I could get a Saw Stop I would not, the safety technology to prevent accidents has been around for years, and that is an European style table saw with a sliding table. When I upgrade my table saw this is what I will get, not only are they safer, they are far easier to use with sheet stock.

What I find funnier and more nonsensical about this, is that it is marketed for contractor's saw, how many of you have seen a contractor site with a dedicated dust collection? and how about that cable to power the guard? how many extensions will a contractor have to use to power it? If used without the dust collection the plexiglass will eventually dull and you won't be able to see a thing, and off the guard goes.

I make my purchases on analytical thinking not on emotional feelings, if that makes me a "shill" so be it, happy to be one.. :-)

If I make a big frame my head won't look so big on the shot, right?

Shelley, what kind of foundation did you use? I am wanting to do something similar since I lost the lease at my place. I might as well buy property and do my own thing. I have been reading about post & beam, but I am stuck with the foundation, seems there are many different ways to do them. If you don't mind send me your e mail, mine is rossorabbit@hotmail.com.

THanks for the responses Nicholas, bot for mine and the legs, I was also interested on how you made them. I second the idea of FWW doing an article on your work. I still cannot understand how you turn an oval...anyhow, great job and thanks for taking the time to answer our questions.

This is great, did you use steam bending or bent lamination for the table? Great job, lovely set.

I don't know if you succeeded or not in your intention, but that sure is one heck of a pretty craving you made. I really like it.

Your feather board is too far back...and yeah, I agree, don't quit your day jobs. :-))

Very nice, I also checked your web site, you have a great talent for designing these lamps.

Very nice... :-)

All in all a good attempt. I would have done some things bit differently. For example, the lower aprons I would have put them with the clod lift facing down instead of up and I would have added a couple of grooves to each board.

I am surprised you did not go with the finger joints instead of the dovetails on the drawers.

The pulls and breadboards look great, I would still have put a few plugs here and there for accent though.

nwgeoff I know I am going to bum you out but it looks like this all the time: I take an hour at the end of the day to clean up, otherwise it gets too messy.

Nice work but there are a couple of things that do not do it for me. I agree with oldshavings, the legs take a lot away from the table, and second (in my opinion) the aprons as well as the legs are just too thick for the top, makes me think of a VW beetle with moster truck wheels.....

On the other hand, kudos to you for trying to make your own design and not showing us another arts and crafts, green and green, prairie table. You seem to have the talent all you need is to refine your designs a bit more.

Pretty cool, much cheaper than the adjust a bench item

Great looking bench, are there any plans for this out there?

Excellent work, looks great

IMO the idea of this gallery is to have members show their workshops, not try to promote traffic to their blog site.

Ok, clearly this is a well crafted piece. But Boris, buddy, you need to relax on the sales pitch. You are trying too hard, and frankly there is nothing more annoying than a craftman or "artist" talking about himself or his work in the third person. It just smacks of arrogance, and in the end it makes the sales pitch stick on your client's mind instead of your piece. If your work is of high quality, let it speak for itself.

hmmm...lets review the steps. Put charge inside tree, approach tree with a chain saw which can possibly spark and cut wedges on tree with the charge in it. Anybody see anything wrong with this?

Besides the dubious choice of steps I see nothing wrong with this, just Texas guys having some fun. :-)

hmmmm....maybe it will go faster if I turn it on.

It took me two years to learn how to make perfect handcut dovetails. If this book can teach me other techniques in less time then you will be doing a good deed by sending it to me. You will be sparing me some gray hairs and acid stomach and my neighboors the screaming and cussing... :)

Jeeezzz... that is just too pretty to hold tools!