This is Part 2 of the bandsaw blade guide fabrication project. The big takeaway from this video is the fact that you can get silver solder in different grades, each with a different melting temperature. The main difference between the grades is the quantity of zinc in...
If you can’t buy, you’ll just have to build it. My Canadian made General bandsaw has been a trouper. I bought it new about twenty years agoand so far the only thing that has gone awry is a benign rattle that started at about week number two which I have...
In Part 2 of our Classic Canoe Repair series we take a look at stem repairs. This is one area that ,without looking, I can almost guarantee there are problems to be found. Even if the job has already been done previously, it likely wasn’t done well. We’ll...
This is the first part of a series on cedar canvas canoe repair. This is not intended to be a completely comprehensive series. It will give you a general walkthrough the process and highlight some of the specific challenges found in the featured examples. This first...
