Toughest hardwood floor finish?? - LumberJocks Woodworking Forum Ahoy friends! I am about to move into a new house, and one of our first projects is to remove old carpeting to reveal the hardwood floors beneath The wood is red oak, and appears to be in good shape from what I can tell I have done the floor sanding and finishing of hardwood floors before
End Grain Screw Trouble | LumberJocks Woodworking Forum The idea is to glue a hardwood dowel in a hole perpendicular to the screw so the threads of the screw grab into the hardwood cross grain (much better hold than end grain)
Abbreviations you may want to know - LumberJocks Woodworking Forum This is a list of standard lumber abbreviations that are commonly encountered in the buying and selling of lumber in the United States AAR Association of American Railroads AD air dried ADF after deducting freight AF alpine fir a l all lengths ALS American Lumber
Cons of mixing softwoods with hardwoods - LumberJocks Woodworking Forum Are there any special considerations in building woodworking pieces (I'm thinking of a dovetailed box) that mixes both softwoods and hardwoods? I'm thinking of making a box out of combination of walnut, cherry, alaskan cedar Most pieces I've seen are either all hardwood or all softwood Thanks
Hardwood Edge Banding With Band Saw - LumberJocks Woodworking Forum I am going to be using hardwood edge banding on a project shortly and would like to know if anyone is cutting their stock (1 4" final) with a bandsaw Presumably, the thinner blade of the bandsaw should waste less material, however I'm not sure what it would take from there to be glue ready I