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One major down side of most wood stoves is they need regular stoking to keep going for very long. This is fine if you are working in the shop. It is more of a problem if you are trying to keep the...

Here in the area where white oak grows it is much cheaper than any of the available alternatives from far away parts of the world, and it is readily available from local saw mills and hardwood...

I think it is worth noting that what works well at Navy-ship scale is not necessarily the same as what works well at the size most of us are working at. Also, Navy standards may not reflect very well...

First off, I want to thank you for responding on this thread and thank both you and Gougeon Brothers for the testing work you have done, and more generally for all that Gougeon Brothers (and probably...

Thank you Norman. I feel no shame in not being up to date on every story in the news! Snide responses like Wardd's, on the other hand, only lower my opinion of the person making the snide response.
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And registering your work is no longer necessary either, but as Kaa said, registration will help you a lot if you ever have to try to defend your copyright in court. I quite agree with Kaa: according...

You can believe that but I don't think a court would agree with you.



I agree. I think we have gone too far, especially with patents. There should also be a better system for tracking down the...

What evidence do you have that the Post Office is being asked to pay for postal employees who are not even born yet? All "future" means in the quote you posted is that they have not yet retired.

Where something is posted does not typically affect copyright (if by "posting on a public forum" you mean the posting of Kaa's original image on the forum). Posting something in a public location...

To me the clear element that distinguishes a watermark from a logo is that a watermark is either:

1. Behind something that you can see through (such as text) such that you can read the text as it...

I think Rum_Pirate may be getting wrapped up in semantics: the difference between "capitol" and "capital" (you probably should have written "capital" in your thread title) and the point that by some...

That is a fair point. On the other hand, I can't think of another readily available (in North America) wood that is a strong and rot resistant as white oak, while also being quite inexpensive and a...

Yes, that is definitely a concern. A bigger o-ring should help. Another approach to take is to try to figure out a workable dogging down system that will pull the hatch tight at multiple points...

It seems to me this is not really a viable solution for a boat that is being built as a composite structure with most of the hull structure held together and sealed up with epoxy. We can debate the...

One of the reasons why farmland may be especially cheap in some areas is because of the very high costs related to getting corn to larger markets (quite likely most people in the immediate vicinity...

A fair point. This isn't so much a "man isle" they are creating as a "couch potato isle" but they can't call it that!

A lot of the men I'm around these days are into farming and organic food. They want to know where the organic broccoli is and where the locally made goat's milk cheese is, not where to get potato...

For what it's worth, I had good success making waterproof boxes using the following technique:

1. Make the box and lid and mill the mating surface between lid and box smooth so there is a nice...

I agree. It is also worth remembering that in real-world applications one of the big advantages lamination offers is any defects in the wood are isolated to one laminate. This is an important...

Given the long history of reports of both general success gluing white oak with epoxy, and catastrophic* failures of epoxy-glued white oak, various people have raised the point that the failures...

MANY countries around the world have demonstrated that it is very possible to regulate guns much more than we do in the US and the result is demonstrably a lot fewer guns in circulation in these...

No you haven't. All you've done is state what you believe over and over again. To actually make a case you need to respond with more than just unsubstantiated beliefs to the detailed numerical...

I think the consensus is that yes, it would be HUGELY larger than any of those projects. It would not be especially technically difficult for the most part. We could do it if we wanted to. It would...

727 million barrels of water is enough water to provide for the drought irrigation needs of something on the order of 50 square miles of farmland. That's 1/1667 of Kansas' land area. Meanwhile, the...

Exactly. The development upstream from the areas that are now flooding reduced the wetland area where water would naturally be held and released slowly, it reduced the forestland, which is also good...

Forget about profit margin. What you have to come up with is a scenario where the benefits are at least in the same ballpark as the costs. You can talk about water being priceless but this is really...

I suppose one key question on the sewing machines is not the current value of the dollars they originally cost, but rather what a comparable machine goes for now. I know good sewers who would not...

I wonder if the value of sewing machines has gone down because of the big decline in interesting in sewing. This decline may partly be because with most women working, sewing everyday clothing just...

Localized piping systems to get water past choke-points in the river channel are a reasonable idea. What I think would be a better idea is redirecting the runoff from paved surfaces so it is retained...

The point I was trying to make with the Great Lakes was that the amount of water needed to water the drought stricken-areas of the great plains is vast. The amount of water generated by Irene last...

Exactly! The surface area of Lake Superior is 31,700 square miles. Let's say we are trying to make up for at least some of the lost water across the vast farming regions in the middle of the US. Say...

I think you are greatly underestimating the need and greatly overestimating the potential supply.

Unfortunately, the places that have "too much water" at some particular time usually only have...

Again, I'll second what David said. Stickering, when you have lots of weight on top and are taking wood all the way from green to dry, can help keep boards flat. In your case I wouldn't bother trying...

I agree with David. Simply cutting the board into strips and then gluing those strips back together will do nothing whatsoever to prevent warping. If you rip into strips and then flip OVER (make the...

Most likely the area on which the blade rests is a little bit out of true. This can be fixed quite easily with a thin hand file. The nice thing about a spokeshave is that since the amount of steel...

I think of a good hardware store as a place to get the kinds of things you use to build and work on and around a typical house (a bad hardware store is a gussied-up housewares store where you can get...

Skip the water bath and just get a slow-speed (1725 RPM) grinder with a good Aluminum Oxide wheel (the pink wheels). My experience with water-bath grinders is that you will grow a beard down to the...

My photo experience is at nearly the opposite end of the photo spectrum from fashion photography so I don't have any inside knowledge of that field, but I think it is maybe worth remembering that...

Prazi Beam Cutter lubrication instructions: http://www.praziusa.com/mtce-bc.html

Prayers and best wishes to Meadow, and to you and the parents and the rest of your family.

Thanks! Paddling in the snow sounds, ummm, "interesting." Actually, I could see it being fun for a little while but overall I think I'd prefer somewhat warmer weather!

The new Algonquin Park canoe...

Thanks everyone. It certainly sounds like Algonquin is an excellent place; which was my impression all along and is the reason why we would drive 10+ hours each way to get there!

We certainly...

Bruce: Thanks! Looks like a great trip! I certainly hope to do some intentional swimming while on this trip.

Ron: Whoa. Looks like there is a ton of information on that site. Thanks!

Thanks Ron! I was thinking there was an off chance there might be some sort of shuttle system but I was not expecting anything as efficient as that. Good to know about. Thanks for the other info as...

Hello,

Three friends and I are working on plans to go on a week-long canoe trip in Algonquin Park, in Ontario, this coming September. I thought there might be some folks around here who would have...

Amazing! Gluten free sourdough starter. What will they come up with next?

Bruce - I'm thinking of Doug's idea of a 12x18 flue tile. Imagine it in the oven laid on it's side so you're looking...

A little scary (to me) how much I post here...

Thanks. I was not aware that steam later in the baking cycle was an actual problem.

You don't want the tile to fit too tightly into the oven. Their needs to be space for air to circulate. That said, a good way to create a bit more circulation space without losing useful baking space...

Calling it a myth is giving too much credit to the people propagating this story. They know very well that it is a flat out lie and they are knowingly and willingly lying to further their cause. Just...