MJ Hofbauer

How about you gents just set up a Project Guitar metronome such as http://www.metronomeonline.com/metronomeon...ault.asp?bhcp=1 and we'll all count off of that starting at some post? Ok, more seriously, while I would say EST would be the easiest, some may say I'm biased being in the eastern US. So how bout everyone just agree to GMT, anyone having a problem converting go to http://www.worldtimeserver.com/ and click on link on the left UTC/GMT. /daily_good_deed -MJ

I'm new to this forum, but am a member of other forums online that have chats. Thought I might give you a recommendation. Out of all the forums I'm on, the only chats that ever have anyone in them are the ones that set up a scheduled meeting time. I'd try to poll the users interested in using it as to a day and hour, then have that be the weekly meeting time and put that in a sticky. Otherwise what you'll see is everyone that is interested will go in chat, stay for a couple minutes, no one's there so they leave. One after another. If you are more interested in a daily chat time, first go with once a week and then when you have a few regulars expand it. Hope that helps. -MJ

Yeah, I wouldn't have gone with snipe because of the cuts inboard on the blank. Typically snipe only occurs at the beginning and end of the cut. As the board enters the planer, the wood digs in and the back rises slightly and causes the end gouge. But glad you got it sorted out. -MJ

Just joined to see if I can help with some of the tooling questions in here. Question, are you joining one face of the blank first? A thickness planer cuts a smooth and parallel surface to the obverse surface of the wood being passed thru. Passing a rough piece thru, even if levelled will turn out with bad results. Not sure about the proper configuration of that individual planer. I have a Grizzly 16" planer and a 24" at the shop. If you are worried about the wood 'giving' as you said with mounting a piece under, just make sure not to take off too much material in one pass. If you find you are getting tearout or the piece is being compressed, make the cut in two passes. -MJ