Recent content by special bone

The honest answer is that you won't notice when it gets better. Try not to get any water in your ear for a while, let it all dry out properly. In about 2 weeks you'll realise you can hear again. It's taken me 30 years but I have now finally accepted it. DO NOT PUT ANYTHING IN YOUR EAR EVER I...

Spooky, but true. I finally got a payout from the insurance company for the tools that were stolen in March so I put in an order with Workshopheaven. I added several cabinet scrapers as it said you'd get a free leather wallet. I wasn't sure I'd got it right so I added a note on the order...

Sheet corrugators? Or veneer ruiners :lol: .

I used to own a pair of the fishtails and they were great (sadly they were stolen). The AI Dovetail chisels are quite thin and so they will flex if you put too much behind them. Now if I can just get the insurance company sorted out...

What about poly-eurethane? I'm sure I used some with a 30 min open time the other week when I was building a bed. To be fair, that was working in the sun outside and I had no problems putting the headboard together. Just make sure you wipe the joint with a damp cloth first so you get a good bond.

I got 2 packs of the Dakota 54" clamps (12 in all). When I got them out of the pack they were not as straight and true as I expected but then I'm used to the old-fashioned pig iron ones from college. They're not a patch on the Besseys but as a general set of clamps, they're fine. I don't...

Ok, lets see if we can get you somewhere near sorted. These jigs are a pig to setup the first time, a real pig. Mine wasn't the Perform version but I'm fairly sure they're all made in the same factory. I've managed to find one of my previous attempts (that worked) and measured the dimensions...

Try Poplar. It's one of the cheapest hardwoods and is prone to some interesting colourations. It is also easy to work without blunting all your tools too often :D .

It depends in what way it's warped. If it's just got a bit of curve in it then you could plane it out to make a thinner board. If it's really badly curved, you could cut it down the centre of the curve, square it all up and then re-join it. A picture would help :D .

I wouldn't be without my AI dovetail chisels. Well, apart from the ones that were stolen, but that's because they were in my college bag that contained my 'sharp and shiny' tools. Haven't tried the MkIIs but I'd love to have a go. Maybe a combination? A 1/4" dovetail and matching skews, and...

Can you try using a different web-browser on the Mac? That would narrow down whether it is a Mac problem or a web-browser problem. If it was a PC, I would have suggested flushing the DNS but I don't know how to do that on a Mac. However, a quick search of Google will probably tell you how to...

I'll be honest, I've just spent a week on a VMware course so the impact on the memory was still fresh in my mind :lol: . I've checked on my machine and the process using the most memory is kernel_task, using about 200MB. That's a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard. If you can see any process...

It sounds more like a memory issue than a CPU issue, in particular, it sounds like one of your applications has a memory leak. Try not running VMware and see if the same thing happens. The machine slowing down to the extent you describe implies that it is using the swap space on disk rather...

"I've been egg-bound for days, this stuff is marvellous."

Nope, not stupid at all. Stupid is gluing it together without putting the bottom in. At least, that's what the other students said to me :? .