seal a beer mug - FineWoodworking
2009年10月26日 · The tip of a wood fibre sounds like a good candidate. Wooden containers work, and work well, for low carbonated beers but if you're going to drink canned or bottled beer from this mug have a kitchen towel handy when you pour. The paraffin wax sounds like a good idea as it will smooth out the wood surface. Please let us know how it works out.
Best wood for Beer Hall tables - FineWoodworking
2009年1月20日 · This suggests a wood that is tough, will happily get manky looking with all sorts of stuff in addition to the beer, doesn't mind getting a good scrub down with hot water and detergent or vinegar every few days and will last a few years. To my mind, one of the best for this is a European oak, eg, Quercus robur.
Spalted wood: Nutrient Supplements for Spalted Wood (e.g. beer)
2010年3月1日 · While pouring the beer over the wood certainly won’t hurt anything, its not really doing anything either (except costing you money, and wasting your beer). There’s nothing special about the sugars in beer, and the wood, and this is important now, doesn’t need anything added to it. If you take a look around, nature does just fine decaying ...
Get Started in Marquetry - FineWoodworking
2024年12月4日 · I begin an abstract piece by selecting the veneer. I purchase sample packs from Certainly Wood; I like knowing that the company sources its material responsibly. For this piece I chose teak, fiddleback makore, crotch maple, burl maple, chestnut, and dyed gum, keeping in mind the range of colors and the mix of straight and figured grain.
Extracting Screws from Reclaimed Wood, Part 3
2024年12月3日 · Create plugs from the same type of reclaimed wood. Pick an area of the reclaimed lumber that can’t easily be repurposed, and craft the plugs using a plug cutter. Standard plug cutters can patch smaller holes (such as those from boring cylinders), but check for plug cutters in both metric and imperial sizes for larger holes made by hole saws.
covering freshly cut wood - FineWoodworking
2007年11月24日 · Well, not being an entomologist I would describe the insect as a milky white thing with a beer belly, about as long as the width of your pointer finger nail. As far as the cut of the wood, I cut it in half parallel to the grain by hand in order to fit it through my bandsaw (6" cutting capacity).
Air bubbles in finish - FineWoodworking
2004年8月9日 · I am currently refinishing my solid wood front door. I’m not even certain what type of wood it is. It was weathered quite badly when I bought the house. I sanded down to bare wood going up to 220 grit. Blew the dust off outside, then wiped with tack cloth inside. I applied a wood conditioner, then minwax stain. Everything looked great thus far.
Static Charge while planing wood - FineWoodworking
2006年2月8日 · The wood should be thoroughly wetted without having actual puddles on the board's face. This will do two things, the moisture should help carry off the static charge and the character of the shavings will change, but whether the change would be for better or worse I …
Asian Fusion Handplane - FineWoodworking
2024年11月4日 · At the drill press, level the ramp relative to the quill, and drill small pilot holes in your punch marks. If your frog was held to your donor body with wood screws, follow up with the appropriate pilot hole for those screws. Measure how much your screws will extend into the body, especially at the rear of the plane.
#313-NOV/DEC 2024 - FineWoodworking
Seri Robinson, a professor of wood anatomy, says finishes undermine the natural antimicrobial properties of wood. Turning a Southwestern Bowl Matt Monaco creats a bowl with a clean, classical simplicity of shape that he sees as wooden pottery.