I haven't been active in a while, for various reasons, but I wanted to add my voice to people who have commented on the value of this forum. Jim, you do good work, both in your shop and on the group.

Nice work! Mario

Excellent work! Mario

Nice work! Mario

Happy New Year one and all! Mario

This topic, like some of the others, is like a crash course in automata. Thanks, all. Mario

Really. There's a lot to learn there for me. Mario

Jim, I use the sliding compound, which was originally formulated for cabinet drawers. It has the consistency (as I read in one review) of snot, or if you want to keep things more polite, of warm butte

Great work! Mario

When needed, which hasn't been often, I use SlipIt and it works well. I agree with Mike about the look of the walnut gears. Mario

I bought some gears from Cranky Crab for my latest project and was really impressed by the quality. Nice people to deal with, too. Mario

I ordered some gears from Cranky Crab for my current project and was impressed by the quality, fast delivery and even the personal note that was tucked into the package asking me to keep in touch and

Very cool. Mario

Very nice. I look forward to watching this one at work. Mario

That of course should be: "He needed the box by the day of his promotion ceremony."

Thanks, Mike. Inlay work is interesting because there is a lot of room for experimenting and generally throwing stuff out there to see how it works. The box I made for a friend's son who had just been

Thanks, Gus. Actually, I worked for 36 years teaching new students at our local community college how to study. I got into woodworking because I got an estimate for new kitchen cabinets and thought th

Thanks, Gus. The drill press is a Sprunger from Topeka, Indiana, and from what I've been able to research it's from around 1952. It still works great, but with a little bit of wobble at the point of t

Thanks, Jim. Krenov designed really straightforward furniture, with great lines, but there were always quirks. In the case of this table it was clamping the three pieces of each leg, which are at odd

Nice work! I'll be following this project and learning from it. Nice clean shop, too, in contrast to mine. When I took this picture of my "clean" bench I was in the process of making a Krenov-style ta