rgdaniel

This would serve as incentive to try this wood carving thing... although my turkey carving is NOT a thing of beauty...

Sweet looking table...

I built this ages ago. Second only to my drill-press table as the most useful shop-thing I ever built.

I tripped a little on the word "physics" as well, but I definitely take the overall points being made.

Could definitely make use of this... dragging my heels a bit on Sketchup...

This looks like a good book to have, if only for that table on the cover, which looks like a fun build.

Just call it a "rough cut list" and offer it as a download for those serious about building the piece. It's useful information. The warnings about the dangers of treating it as gospel, though, are also useful! Relative dimensioning is certainly a core concept.

Is it just me, or is this not really a combo jig if you have to unscrew, for example, the vertical fence and re-attach it at 45 degrees, depending on what you're trying to do. Easier to make two or three jigs, purpose built and ready to use. Or am I missing something?

I'm a lousy chess player, but at least I'd have the satisfaction of winning the book...

My two cents:

(1) I don't even have room for my mitre saw in the winter, when my wife insists on using the garage... so no new tools for me, old-fangled or new-fangled... I've got the basics covered...

(2) I took up woodworking, or got more serious about it, as part of a retirement-initiated change-of-gears, from computer professional to hobby craftsman... I'll goof around in Sketchup, and take care of a few web clients, but beyond that? No, I'm not looking to pursue computer-based woodworking....

Those CNC machines kind of cheese me off, to be honest... just a gut reaction...

I didn't realize the epidemic of fear, and fear-inducing bad science, had spilled over into woodworking world, which I thought was largely a sensible haven from such histrionics... thanks for helping to clarify... maybe nip it in the bud... I'm gonna look into the whole respirator thing, though, be better prepared for the next time I empty the dust collector...

Hmmm... if you planed to 1" then ripped 1" pieces from the board, you'd have 1"x1" strips... these look more like 1" x 2" or maybe 1/2" x 1"... if they were 1" x 1" it would get very confusing when it came time to making sure the edge-grain side becomes the surface of the finished board, which was kind of skipped over.

If you plane to 2", then rip 1" strips, you can flip them 90 degrees and glue up a 1" thick board, without having to keep track of which side is the end-grain side...

Comedy's hard...

My fellow Canadian does good work, I would love to get this DVD.

Best wishes to John and his family. I know some of what he's going through. It's interesting how something like woodworking can go from being an escape to actually providing solace, of a sort.

If you did it for him, you'd have to do it for everyone... like me for example.... it was classy of him not to ask... something I've rarely been accused of...