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The $45 nut https://muellerco.com/product/woodpeckers-dado-nut-for-sawstop-table-saws/
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I just found out that Blue Spruce Toolworks is now a part of Woodpeckers, and apparently has been since 2020. I thought they were still separate companies. I have the same question as some others I read on line. Is Blue Spruce still making their own tools, or has that been folded into the Woodpeckers mass production facility. I have no problem with Woodpeckers tools. They are some good and sometimes quite innovative tools, if not somewhat over priced. Blue Spruce tools are also expensive, but you can forgive that when you consider they are handmade. But are they still handmade?
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I want to share an experience I just had with Woodpeckers customer service. I do this with the permission of the customer service agent involved, Mike. A disclaimer is needed here: I have no monetary or financial interest in their company, other than the fact that over the years, they have gotten a lot of my money, none of which I have begrudged spending. They recently advertised a sale on a Padauk project pack. I am planning a small table built from Padauk, legs probably walnut, not sure about the aprons yet. I went on line and ordered the project pack. When it arrived, it was a beautiful selection of wood, with the exception of a split in the best piece. I emailed their customer service with a description and pictures of the split, not knowing for sure what their response would be. I received an email from Mike giving me my choice of a refund, or another project pack of Padauk. I opted for another project pack. Mike replied that he would have another pack shipped to me that same day, no shipping charges, and no charge for the wood. How great is that! There is no "but" to this story. The second pack arrived, again with a beautiful selection of wood, and without any splits. I can't say enough good things about Woodpeckers. Yes, their tools and one-time-tools are a bit pricy, but worth every penny in my opinion. I invited Mike to check out our web site, and he said he was interested in doing so, as he is a woodworker also and always ready to improve his skills. This is the split board. Looks like it followed the grain. As I told Mike, it was not totally useless, but would not work for my currently planned project.
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This may turn out to be somewhat of a long-winded story. Sorry in advance. Some of you may remember a product offered by Woodpeckers. It was a set of red cubby drawers, with the idea being to mount them on the unused underside of your work bench to hold small quantities of hardware. I bought two sets of the drawers, which gave me 12 drawers. Since I use the underside of my workbench to clamp items down to the top of the bench for planing, sanding, etc., I decided to build a small cabinet from some of the left over oak veneer plywood and solid red oak from the snack tray cabinet project I posted about back in January. Top, bottom, back, and two sides to be made from the scrap plywood, with three horizontal dividers to which I would mount four brackets each that the cubbies would slide in and out on. The dividers were made from 1/2" MDF. The dividers were set into grooves in the sides and back, with rabbet joints for the cabinet itself. And believe me, getting all that glued up at once was an exercise in a-holes and elbows. I finally got it all together, and got ready to paint it. I used copper colored hammered Rustoleum, just painting the outside, sides and top. I figured the back and bottom would not be seen, so no need to paint them. I didn't want to paint the inside, so after painstakingly masking and taping the front so as not to get any paint in there, I proceeded to paint my project. I put three coats on and let everything set for a couple of days to make sure the paint was cured and dry. The big reveal: I went down into my shop and pulled off the masking, got one of the drawers to put it in one of the mounting brackets, and it wouldn't fit the bracket. That was impossible. It had to fit, all that was a manufactured product that I had together many times to make sure my spacing between dividers was adequate. It was then that I realized the brackets were now on the top of the dividers instead of the bottom. Yes, I had inadvertently placed the cabinet upside on the bench instead of right side up, and had painted the bottom instead of the top. Hence the Idiot! tag on my post header. This goes back to an earlier post in a different thread about experience, and yet another definition of experience: Experience is what you get just after you really needed it. Once I get the top painted, the real top this time, I'll post some pics.
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