Issue 76
Issue 76
Survey Says!
Hoo-boy: at last count I have heard from over 250 of you all. (Multiply that number by about three minutes an email, and you know what I’ve been doing over the last couple of weeks.) The question I asked was “do you read the eZine at home or at work?” Well, let me say that in a highly unscientific examination of your replies, reading the Zine at work is ahead by a small but significant margin. Some folks even get the eZine at home … and then send it to work to read there! In general, most of you who do read the eZine at your place of employment say that you have management’s blessing to do so. Some, however, admit to sneaking it in as a guilty pleasure, and many apparently operate under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. (Glad that’s working somewhere!)
All in all, I’m just happy you’re reading the eZine in ever-increasing numbers, (more than 250,000 of you at last count). And I must say that those of you who added comments to your survey answers were most complimentary … a guy could almost get a big head. (Almost; I have family and co-workers to prevent that state of affairs.) So thank you for your continued support and keep on reading the eZine: at home or at work!
— Rob Johnstone, Woodworker’s Journal
Feedback
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Taking Another Pass at Joining
Reader comment on rabbet cuts, planers in a beginner’s shop, and the Drill Doctor Pro.
Today's Woodworker
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Leonid and Svetlana Zakurdayev: Heart and Soul
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Q & A
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Back from the Ashes
Can anyone suggest a method of returning heated and smoked wood to its original color and getting rid of the strong smoke odor?
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Equipment or Design Failure?
My first cut worked great, but subsequent attempts pushed the 3/8″ saw blade “out” of track. Changing to new blade got the same result. What am I doing wrong?
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Non-sanding Solution to Blade Burn?
Other than sanding, is there any other way to remove burn marks caused by a table saw blade? I use a Forrest blade and still get burn marks on oak.
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Shunned at the Lumberyard
The last visit to a lumberyard I asked for the 1/4″ maple veneer plywood I need for cabinet doors for my kitchen. I was answered with, ‘we don’t have it and you can’t get it.’
What's In Store
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DeWalt: Blade Shopping? Make Way for Big Yellow
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Industry Interviews
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Fuji Industrial: Good to the Finish
A good finish is one of the basic tenets of any kind of woodworking. Yet, how many of us have seen our umpteen hours of careful planing, joining, cutting, gluing and sanding a project undone by a bad finish?
