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Ian, I've got some nice Black Locust, a heavy two inches thick...and some Angelique at three inches. Send me the parts and I'll be happy to rough it out for you. Piece of cake. I'll let you buy me...

Here's a set of tenoned rails for three screen doors. The tenons will be cut back from this stage as you never want tenons the full width of the rail in case the mortise shows. The tenons do not go...

Spanish Cedar, 1 3/8 thick. Glue up square edged. Dowels, Dominos or M+T, epoxy glue. Rabbet after gluing, chisel the corners square. Prime paint. Either fit an aluminum framed screen with turn...

Niagara Falls, the "Thunder of Waters" has long been exploited and commercialized, often in the most vulgar, crass and tacky manner. We, as latecomers on the scene, should take a lesson from the...

...Foxwoods.:D

It gets more confusing still when the Federal recognition of a tribe is needed for casino gambling. The Shinnecocks have been going through the courts for years to get the recognition required to...

Aren't the last of the Mohegans still living up by you, Doug?

This still works for me...


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Happy Birthday, Sir!

No, Mike, I haven't, but then I ain't in the Sticky Club either.:D

Tell you what I would like to see...the names of who clicks on your thread, the ones who look without ever saying anything.
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Duncan's got a point...the current Sticky system is static and boring, sort of an "everybody gets a trophy, we're all winners here" sort of thing. This arrangement actually promotes long lapses...

So long as the motor has a low voltage on/off switch there's no problem. After the motor cools down the switch needs to be pressed to restart the motor, it won't start suddenly by itself.

I find myself treating CPES like most other clear finishes and sealers...and it seems to behave in similar ways to lacquer sealer. hopefully it will be a superior barrier, being a two part system....

Must check right away. Is the fitting in an obvious place or is it difficult to locate?

The vari-drive belt broke on mine a couple of years ago. It's a two inch wide vee belt, short, thick, with...

I stand corrected.

It's not likely that a boat used for either tonging or dredging would have bulwarks.

Welded steel behemoths, not cast iron, the Powermatic 66's were welded up from 1/8" plate. This 60's vintage example comes from a school shop, lost the blade welder, had the three phase motor...

Horseshoe crabs! You see horseshoe crabs, Kevin?

The Bookie are you talking about? Some things went on there, sure, but I don't know about any high rollers.


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Everybody who knows what a decker is, raise your hand.



Quarterdecks?

No matter, I think they're all gone now, same as the eel grass.

If you have a thickness planer, a good strategy is to leave the stock too thick, then mill the dadoes, using whatever means at your disposal so long as the width is consistent, then run the dadoed...

Gambling a A+R, Rich? Where, in the back room of the green trailer? Certainly not in the clam shack.

Those thickness and radius numbers look just a trifle optimistic...IMHO, of course.

Thank you all for your kind wishes, and you can bandsaw me off a piece of that cake!:D

You're kind of new here, Ernest, but it's customary to illustrate posts of this kind with pictures and examples of your work...:D

A lot depends on what level of fit you're willing to be satisfied with, and how long you're willing to spend on a particular project, and what limits you're willing to accept in the scope of a...

Assuming that the square, pencil, saw and sawhorses are all at hand, but the miter gauge needs locating, probably under a pile of aromatic, fresh-planed cedar shavings...OK.

What about the...

So, you're saying that you can cross-cut a two-by-four faster by hand then on a table saw? And the result will be more accurate?

Does this include the time it takes to square a line across the...

Happy Birthdy from Lawn Guy-lint!

Jim and Tracey

Here you go, Wiley. Nice couple of pictures, they really take me back. I can remember not rushing out on those days, sitting in the luncheonette having another coffee, letting the sun warm up the air...

Good.

Square-edged tread...or bullnosed

Peter, will the tread noses extend somewhat forward of the stringers?

I've used a vacuum pump on a garbage bag to pack things. It'll turn a feather pillow into a place mat.

Actually, it's more complicated than you think, Richard, even with a proper pump and bag. In...

The whole of Long Island is off limits...


5. a. No person shall use a rifle for hunting on Long Island or in Westchester County. If a person be found carrying a rifle in the ...

Hey, Richie, do you remember Old Man Roe and the Roe-boat? Funny thing is...he doesn't look as old now as he did then, looks pretty fit actually.
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Tommy Sullivan and his wife Kathy at Davis park, probably around 1979. Tommy was a good raker.

Way back when I was getting the houseboat idea I met Garrett Anger and John Miller, both of whom had...

Well, I guess a simple solution is out of the question.

Is there a moaning chair aboard...with a bottle of Merlot for some slight consolation?

Peter, keep in mind that even if a ladder is steep, the step must have enough depth that you can put your foot in at least past the ball of the foot. Anything less will be like mountain climbing. A...

Davis Park is a town on the beach, across the bay from Patchogue. There were three ways to get there, boat or ferry, four wheel drive vehicle coming about five miles from Smith Point and seaplane....

The hippies always used to work the Buoy Thirty-two shells, Smitty, Ross, Beano, the Doctor, Tommy Bird, Tubby Kogler, Craze, Billy Durkin. The shell bed was so big easy to find, the digging so...

Peter, the problem you describe is a stairbuilders rise/run calculation. Google "ships ladder rise/run" to find some useful information. All the angles and measurements are in tables or can be found...

Mebbe you'd be happier if it was in a sill, covered with hand-planed cedar boards inside and out, only seen when the building was demolished four hundred years later. That'd pump up the Zen factor...

"Rose and Valerie screaming from the gallery..." :D

Nice Taj Mahal tune, Pefster. :D



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First thing in the morning, David, and again before I go home, but lately I've been reorganizing my priorities and might start taking a light pass or two at lunchtime.

Davis Park? That was you? You weren't the best rent collector the town had, were you? Seventeen-fifty a week to dock a thirty-six foot two-story houseboat at the beach, and I think one Summer I only...

What? You don't like my note of false humility?:D

I might be getting back to all that. I've got my wide-belt sander on craigslist as we speak. First fifteen thou takes it. I'm paring down, going...

Think of it in this way...a long plane set fine might cut a rough surface in only two or three spots initially. Eventually,I suppose the whole board will be flattened, but it would be a lengthy...

Sure, I remember you, with the Olds 88 full of clams, brown wasn't it, with the Yosemite Sam "Back Off" mud flaps? You wouldn't know anything about a pair of tongs I had sticking in the water behind...

Start out with a medium sized plane and work up to longer ones.

To begin, tip the iron so it's cutting on one side, don't worry about smoothness. Work the top in a diagonal pattern, cutting across...