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Hi, Ken. The outside top (2mm thick) is the one machined. The inside is just a thin, 0.5-0.6mm, piece of spruce laminated over the holes. I built the first DT in 2001 and since then many dozens of Nomex and all-wood tops. I never had any problem with delamination. The way I designed my tops, there'...

Hello Frederich, Serendipituos timing here, as I've been both reading up on the tech and visualizing the process to possibly apply to my own work. I tried a nomex top @12 years ago. It delaminated on me before I even got it strung up. So I re-topped it with a conventional top and shelved that idea. ...

Sorry, Greg, I just now saw this. Dinner at mom's today, will pm you the issue #'s later this evening, and we can go from there.

Mostly from the early to mid 90's. If there is any interest, let me know here and what a fair price might be. I'd like to sell them in one bundle via PayPal. I'll edit post to add issue #'s a bit later.

Update: we got the fence fine tuned to the point where we could slice a fat 3/16", with a +/- 1/64" variation from front to back and top to bottom. I don't know about you guys, but I can live with that! We practiced on a 1" thick 7.75X24 piece of sitka that I had; the first cut was a ...

I've located a garage full of split old growth WRC billets that have been sitting for 20 years. When I mentioned this to my dad, I told him my bandsaw had a solid frame and the opening was not big enough to resaw these. He asked me how big of an opening I needed, and then he gathered up some scrap m...

I used to steam out dents with the tip of a clothes iron and a damp paper towel, but it always discolored the shellac. The Milburn tutorial in the FAQ section instructs to put a small dab of pumice on the FP pad and work it into the ding or scratch. I tried it and it works. I have heard that Tom Hum...

I've got old yard sale variety planes that I've worked with over the years. I've never really bothered to tune them up; I just keep a decent edge on the blades and use them to a certain point generously outside my desired dimension, and then switch to scraper then abrasives. After reading for the 10...

One thing that I should have mentioned: I'm coming off of a 5 year layoff. I let my fictitious name lapse and my EIN has been inactive the whole time. So.... I basically view this as starting from scratch, financially speaking. I understand the whole short term vs. long term thing. I'm thinking cash...

All very useful info, THANKS! So....basically, if I switch to cash accounting, -everything- becomes a running expense as it is bought, correct? If so, can the same be said for capital expenditures like, say, a new table saw? I understand why my account advises to do it the way he has; he's thinking ...

Thanks to all for the responses. I will digest it all and report back on the results....someday.

Kinda funny how I used to post on this forum when it was under Deb's hand, I was a rank beginner and hobbyist, and now I've actually made a couple of dollars here and there... ;) :lol: Anyhow, in years past our accountant has advised that when I purchase tonewoods, to not deduct the total purchase w...

A friend of mine has asked if I could convert an existing guitar's fretboard to just or pure intonation for his own use in plain and Gregorian chant. He is a priest in an urban parish in a blighted neighborhood, so this will be a freebie. I remember listening to John Schneider's Lou Harrison album b...