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For Sale: In my possession are 2 "Foley Automatic Filers" for sharpening handsaws. Instructions included. These machines can be set for any points per inch tooth sizes and set for rip or crosscut angles. Manufacturing of these machines discontinued about 1988. One machine about in the 1980's...

Search these sources: Fine Tool Journal, or Martin J. Donnelly. Both are tool auction sites but do have a "tools for sale" section. Within are usually a pile of tool parts. With some luck, you'll find what you need.

We all like joint tightness, but wood moves, and yet modern glues work fairly well. Of course, good clamping can draw a joint very tight and the rest is dependent on the glue. With mortise and tenon joints, gluing is a secondary action, that is not under pressure but by contact only. It's...

I'm not a "legal beagle" but stating an assumption: manufactured products or work and even site work (by contractors) have an unwritten binding one year guarantee. Also an assumption, if something is going to go wrong or is unsatisfactory in work performance, it may be detected and complained...

Here are some possibilities: 1. Cross band veneer faced edges on a drawer front. 2. Fitting a bread board end to a cross grain tenoned board and allowing for stock movement (such as a slant front desk lid.) 3. Fitting a beaded drawer rail with a tenon end into a mortise hole of a beaded stile...

Hello Doug, The better bench to make is a Robo bench with face vise and tail vise. There's a lot of vises on the market, use care in your choice. I am tall, 6'-2", therefore my bench is 39" high. 36' is OK. Old benches are about 30" high, you'll break your back at that height. THINK OF A...

Jeff. N.E. chapter does not have a zoom set up. This is a feature we should look into and activate since we have many members and areas of New England can be a distance to travel depending where your residence is located. WES

To reply, use the E-mail address as reflected: [email protected] Thanks, WES

New England Chapter members: An instructional program has been scheduled on May 27th, 2023, beginning at 1 pm at the woodwork shop of Al Breed, carver and craftsman of fine 18th century furniture. The session will include techniques in carving and design layout for carved ornamentation. The shop...