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There is a verse in the Book of Ecclesiastes that goes “the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim.” It is referring to the inevitable modifications folks expertise as we get older, our enamel and eyes failing. While my choppers are simply high-quality, thanks, I am positively including lighting fixtures to my working space. Clearly, I would have benefitted from this even in my youth, however now it’s a necessity.

Recently, I added a number of 10,000 lumen LED lights to my store. I don’t actually know what “lumen” is — however it’s got to be highly effective, as a result of I felt like I may get a suntan in the store when I switched them on. It is a lot simpler to see pencil strains, sanding marks and different particulars that I can advocate them with out hesitation.

Getting older has its advantages and its challenges — however I am glad that there’s know-how to resolve a few of the issues.

Rob Johnstone, Woodworker’s Journal

Get the Most From Your Thickness Planer


Benchtop planers are an especially great tool for any workshop. The carry out considered one of the most necessary duties in woodworking — smoothing lumber and machining inventory to a particular thickness.

Making an Epoxy Resin Pond Table

Anyone who has checked out woodworking movies on YouTube in the final rating of years has doubtless not been in a position to keep away from the a whole bunch of examples of “river” tables — two attention-grabbing items of lumber joined in the center by a river of epoxy resin to make a tabletop. While this lumber was not nice for a river desk, its distinctive configuration did lend itself completely to changing into a “pond” desk.

Resins come in several formulation. I wished a model that will permit me to pour thick layers, so I used MAS Deep Pour Epoxy (out there March 2020) consisting of three components resin to 1 half catalyst. Two facets of this product are its comparatively skinny consistency and its lengthy remedy time. Those mix to make a deeper pour extra profitable by permitting air bubbles the time and talent to flee.

I’ve been very fascinated with making an attempt a novel trying set of steel legs referred to as a Straw Bundle “Light” Table Base. Made of metal tubes lower and welded at dramatic angles, they struck my fancy.

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