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Hello Orraloon, Greetings and thanks for the comment! It is good to preserve some physical remnants of the past especially a house that made it that many years without getting taken down. The house is 280 years old! There are only three of those original Dutch farm houses in New York City...

Hello Mark B, Greetings and thanks for the comment! It's a challenge to faithfully reproduce parts made a long time ago. I had to make some compromises but plastic was not one of them! I am proud of this one, if I can't be proud of it I won't do it. I'm happy to answer these questions for you...

Hello and Greetings Jacob, Thanks for your comment and you are correct, it's not a true restoration. I did what I could within the budget constraints I had and the desire of the customer who lives there to maintain the look and feel of the this home. We kept the costs of this "restoration"...

Hello and greetings, Glad you like the job The blue stained handrails and balusters are western red cedar. The top started out with two 2 x 4s and the bottom was one 2 x 4. Each 2 x 4 was $7.29 per foot. The balusters, before machining down to 1.375" x 1.375" were to buy two 2 x 2 at $2.13...

Landmarked Dutch Farmhouse Porch Restoration, in Flatbush Brooklyn. The talented Simon Abrams produced this wonderful short video documentary of the process we here at John Webber Woodwork completed in July. One of the last three dutch farmhouses still standing in New York City. It was an...

Hello Friends, I am still searching and still have no idea who made this lathe or where it came from. I've done some google image searches of the round BLC logo, and still nothing other than the three of us. Have any of you found information? After blowing 20 years of dust off since using it...

I chose the JessEm. I've used it for three months, no complaints.

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Here's a custom built cherry wood door frame indoors I fabricated antinstalled

Hello All! I'm turning on my Lathe for a few projects, haven't used it in 10 years, I'd like to see what it takes to fit the Lathe with a combination face shield dust extraction shroud. The likelihood of a piece flying apart is slight but turning most anything creates shavings and that nasty...

Hello, 30 years ago I bought the same lathe! The person I bought it from in Long Island New York said it was called a "British Luck Lathe" and he said it was made in Britain. Up until the moment I saw the picture you posted with the BLC badge I've never seen a photo or any word of it. Are use...