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Nice job Kev!

They turned out great!

Did you use loose tenons for the end to end glueups in round 1?

Nice work! It's pictures like these that make me wish my garage ceiling was a little bit shorter than 10' so I wouldn't have to be so worried whenever I get around to doing this.

Doug Fir. I can get Beetle Killed Pine with the cool colorations from my friend that has a sawmill, and I think I could get Doug Fir from him too, but I have a lot of BKP...

At times I've wished I could get SYP out here that came in 8' lengths. BBSs has 2' and 3' small project lengths.

Saw Part 2 got posted today I think on YT. I love the finished project! Well done!

yeah, i saw that. I'm asking where is a good source of getting that tool that the guy is saying is hard to find?

Delta 22-540 I believe.

I read somewhere that baby oil is just more expensive mineral oil, so that's why I went that route, since I had a lot of it having 2 kids under the age of 3, it was their contribution to the present 😉 the pre-raise the grain with water is what I think we're both referring to the same thing when I say making it "pop"

Anyone have a decent source (beyond CL, Ebay, etc) for that tool that you see some people use on old lunchbox planers to set the planer blades to the correct distance?

I meant to ask that to Rod, lol. My bad. Enid is the town that I got pulled over it when I was almost going to blow up a truck, lol. Tulsa is where I went to a car show and thought I was gonna get 4 girls' numbers while I was in high school only for them to take me to a church where I didn't understand anyone since they were all talking and speaking in tongues. If you get bored in Oklahoma, there's like 5 to 10 restaurants that are pretty epic for food that we all went to eat at while I was studying at OU. Ken's Steaks and Ribs in Amber is probably the most epic place that I've ever eaten at with a group of people. The place is/was (been a decade since I've been there) only open Thursday through Sunday, cash only, and always had a 2 hour wait. I showed up with 10 other people on a Friday night and we were standing in this long line when this short old fella squeezed in between me and my date at the time and spun around in a circle and asked us "how many of you are there?" and I told the guy "11. Why?" "Nevermind that, I will be right back" and he left the same way he came in and we all just looked at each other and laughed and continued conversing. Sure enough, in the middle of this long line, he showed back up 4 or 5 minutes later and says "I have your table, follow me" and I was asked "old man, all these people in front of us need tables first" "nevermind them, follow me" and so we followed him. He led us to a table set for 11 right by the kitchen doors. I was pulling out the chair for my date to sit down and he had placed menus every where and he said "i'll be right back" and disappears into the kitchen. He came back out within a minute with ribs and put them on the table "we didn't order these" I said. "nevermind that, they're on the house" and he left just as quickly as stating that. By far the most unique customer interaction I've ever had, but if you get bored with food and ask people "where can I get the best steak in Oklahoma?" you'll get some generic answers, like my old man makes the best if he's up for cooking, or texas roadhouse is pretty good steaks for a sit down, and then you'll meet the person that will just plainly state "ken's in amber." I'm pretty much sold on that place after I went there. Meers is pretty good too, but more for a lunch. I need to do the same things like that out here in Colorado, but no one has talked about any restaurant that's cash only.

I'm new enough I still have lots to learn, even if I did something perfectly, lol. It's the joy of being a beginner. So the dark strips I believe are wenge, and the thicker strips are angelique, I believe. Here's the kit I bought two of, I think... (https://www.woodcraft.com/products/1-1-2-x-10-x-16-angelique-maple-hard-wenge-wood-cutting-board-large-woodcraft-woodshop?via=573621f669702d06760016d9%2C57645b7d69702d3c42000d03%2C57645ba569702d3c42000d04) For the finish, I did baby oil (since I had a lot and it was food grade safe) and then I did the butcher block conditioner once the board was soaked with the oil. I think Coop showed a picture of the same product on his charq. board. Woodcraft sells the kits for the wood that I used as well as the cheese board slicer so most of this was store-bought, kind of. I mean I glued everything up, planed it down, sanded down to remove the planer snipe, etc. I didn't try to get the wood grain to "pop" by spritzing it with water, mainly because I was worried I would have screwed it up. Baby steps, since, I led with, I'm a beginner. The grooves were all I could handle I think. I think the cheese slicing kit was only like 10-14 dollars. It wasn't that bad for what it turned out as I think. I mean my wife loves it, so that's the only point that really matters. It also allowed me to talk her into letting me buy a planer I found on CL that needs some work. That's the next thing with my free time. Then I want to make a box that looks like a book for her birthday maybe (since she's a teacher and has a master's in literacy, I thought it would be fitting).

I suppose I'll make my first thread. My wife likes to cut cheese slices and eat cheese so I had been playing with random woods and glue ups only to find out in like October I wasn't using the right kind of titebond, so I sat on my idea for a month and then on Black Friday WC had their deal on these boards so I bought 2 kits and took some out from one kit to make it smaller for the cheese cutting board and finished it and gave it to the wife in the middle of December, when I had finished my finals. It was her birthday present (which was only about 7 months late). So then I decided to make another board for a cutting board and I took the leftovers from the first kit and added them or most of them to the second kit to make a really big cutting board, which my wife loves. My biggest regret for a beginner is I didn't make a jig to make the juice grooves and just thought I could use a straight edge, 2 stops and a bullnose bit in my router, but it didn't work out perfectly so the lines never seemed to be perfectly straight which bothered me enough that I kept widening the grooves out over and over, trying to get them perfect. It never worked out but when I got it down to only 2 or 3 small errors, I called it done and went into sanding and I think 2 of the errors got sanded away and only 1 mishap still shows just slightly. Sanding the grooves by hand is a nightmare, but once it was finished, my wife loved it so I suppose that's the important part. Just figured I'd share a small win for me since I'm pretty new to all of these, but maybe it'll be helpful to someone else. Have a great day!

Well, I'm still at the planning stages with my DC (I got a super good deal on CL for a HF 2 HP DC that's in 10 or so pieces so I wouldn't know I suppose which is louder) so learning vicariously through you right now)

Wow! That's impressive to know all of that I think randomly! Thanks!

Was born and raised there, mainly in the Moore/Norman area. Whereabouts are you at roughly? Out in Colorado now. Welcome to the forums!

Been on kid duty almost all day so my brain is a little bit fried, but the box is to encluse the DC motor to reduce noise I'm assuming... If so, have you considered using MDF? I know most subwoofer boxes, at least for vehicles, are made out of MDF due to noise (but I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing for this situation, which is the reason why I'm asking). Thanks for your input!

Welcome! I have a feeling at some point in the next decade I could use your expertise with a grandfather clock repair. Glad to have you here!

Kind of how I'm too scared to google Buck's or Ted's.... lol

ditto.

Most people talk about either Wen or Rikon as the main two impeller upgrade options. Hope that helps!

Depending on your amp draw, you could upgrade the impeller for a cheaper solution for more cfm from the HF DC as well. I heard you can contact Wen customer support and may be able to get their impeller which is larger than the HF for like 30-50 dollars. I bought a disassembled HF DC a couple of months ago and I'm still working on getting everything set up for my garage myself

Colorado's Front Range.

Thanks! My FIL does a lot of what I call "small" woodworking since his expertise is in instrument making, but I'm trying to learn everything that's bigger. I've made some very entry level sofa c-tables and a cheese cutting board. I just want to keep learning more. Be safe down in Louisiana (was reading some other threads)!