In this issue:

Come Meet the Team (Visit WOODWEB at AWFS)

Featured Project (Historic schoolhouse kitchen)

Hot Threads (A sampling of current forum discussions)

Featured Member Profile (Chuck Park)

Knowledge Base Highlights (The latest additions to this growing resource)

Woodworkers' Favorite Quotes (Share your "shopisms")
 
Recent Additions to the Woodworkers Directory (Create your free web page)

Shop Built Equipment Feature (Drum sander dust blower)

Video Pick (Felder)

Visit WOODWEB at AWFS

Come meet the team! AWFS presents a rare opportunity for the staff
at WOODWEB to shake hands with a few of our regular visitors. Stop
by booth #2429 to chat about the wood business, the web, or
whatever's on your mind. Pick up a little blue spider while you're there.
AWFS takes place July 20 - 23 in Las Vegas.
http://www.woodweb.com/TradeshowDirectory/TDAWFS.html

Featured Project

This kitchen was designed to look at home in a historic
schoolhouse-turned-residence. Its builder calls the look "bold"
and "no-nonsense." We'll add "lovely" to that...
http://www.woodweb.com/galleries/project/posts/3350.html

Hot Threads

COGS (cost of goods sold) vs. expenses... Are they interchangeable?
Accounting terms are defined and applied.
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/forums/business.pl?read=689898

The basics of constructing a coffered ceiling are under review.
A couple pictures of one fine example have already been added...
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/forums/aw.pl?read=690617

Cutting miters and accurate crosscuts in extra thick wood means
putting one of the saws in the shop to a new use... Which one will
it be?
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/forums/aw.pl?read=690641

After going through a variety of dust collection systems, each with its own
set of problems, this shop owner seeks advice on a small but powerful
collector.
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/forums/dust.pl?read=689520

Featured Member Profile

Visit Chuck Park's member profile and website to learn more about
his business, Taylor Made Custom Cabinetry.
http://www.woodweb.com/members/clpark_profile.html

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Knowledge Base Highlights

Here's a tricky problem: eliminating brush marks and restoring
an even gloss to spar varnish — after the piece is installed.
Options are offered up:
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Sanding_and_Rubbing_Out_Spar_Varnish.html

Got gaps? If you're cranking out inset doors, that's no good.
Cabinetmakers discuss their preferred equipment for achieving
a perfect fit in a production setting.
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Equipment_for_FineTuning_the_Fit_of_Inset_Doors.html

How do you cut burls off a log to get the most useful raw
material for bowl turning or art work? Here's some guidance -
with a few great pictures.
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Saw_Technique_for_Harvesting_Burls.html

Experienced woodworkers and business owners share
excellent advice with a solo operator who's struggling
to get organized and make ends meet.
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Making_Money_as_a_OneMan_Outfit.html

A client's special situation requires louvered doors for a
calculated amount of air flow, but no sound coming back
out... Advice on how to oblige is given in this article.
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Sound_Control_and_Airflow_for_Louvered_Doors.html

Follow a trim carpenter from idea to execution as he figures
out a tricky baseboard transition at the bottom of a staircase.
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Stair_to_Base_Transition_Example.html

Woodworkers' Favorite Quotes

"A little putty, a little paint, makes a carpenter what he ain't."

"Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to
make something simple."

135 responses and counting... This collection of woodworkers' favorite
inspirational and entertaining quotes at the Business Forum is popular!
If you haven't already added your own "shopisms," please do:
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/forums/business.pl?read=686098

Recent Additions to the Woodworkers Directory

The following companies recently created free web pages at the
Woodworkers Directory. Create yours at:
http://www.woodindustry.com/woodworkers/index.html

Heard Woodworking
http://www.woodindustry.com/woodworkers/Master/10145.html

A PALLET COMPANY
http://www.woodindustry.com/woodworkers/Master/10146.html

Mid South Bunk Beds
http://www.woodindustry.com/woodworkers/Master/10148.html

CASE installation
http://www.woodindustry.com/woodworkers/Master/10149.html

Shop Built Equipment Feature

If your vacuum isn't pulling hard enough, maybe you need a little
help from an air valve. See how a simple modification to a drum
sander solved a dusty situation... Then create your own post to
share your jigs and rigs, shop built equipment, storage tips, or
time saving tricks.
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/forums/shopbuilt.pl?read=688134

Video Pick

Felder USA features a video of the Hammer Line European style
table saw in action. To view the video, click on the link below
and scroll down to Felder's video link:
http://www.woodweb.com/VideoLibrary/VLAlpha.html

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