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It's easy when you have year to let committers slowly trickle in. Now we have to make sure we get enough high-quality content and active users to make it a sustainable site
The problem, I think, is going to be similar to other new sites: you have to know how to phrase your questions so that they're answerable concisely and canonically, and that's a hard skill to just understand without being taught.
When the site goes into public beta, I will certainly post on reddit's r/woodworking and the facebook groups to let 'em know to check it out
@J.Musser It's almost time for me to start getting back to gardening.se, but I'm having just too much fun asking and answering questions on woodworking.
My gardening woes are much harder to answer than my woodworking woes, sadly. My back yard is currently one large swampy pool. I dug down into the pool and found a clay shelf about a foot down. I have a suspicion I'll need to head out there with a roto-tiller and amend with some sphagnum and maybe if I'm feeling fancy, some vermiculite or something.
This was a guide/marking jig all in the same unit. It was a little pricey, but ultimately it is a very well made tool. I'm going to start out small and make a small box first to hone my skills. Ultimately, I'd like to build some smaller furniture.
I just stumbled into tags which start with "wood" (by searching for [wood-*]). It's obviously that all the questions on this site have and will have to do with wood.
Do our tags need contain "wood"?
@drs Other SE sites have a concept of ambiguous tags where if you try to use one, it will pop up a warning and suggest others that you should use instead. I have to run but I'll try to find more information about it later. Might work well here
@drs For saw specifically, that tag is probably not all that useful. sawing may be more useful (for general 'sawing' technique, or for methods involving sawing not specific to a particular kind).
I wonder of some sharpening technique can reduce chisel efficiency, so maybe after giving the chisel a nice cut it worth re-hardening it so it will last a longer in time.
I know I can heat it and then put it in water/oil but I wonder if water must be cool, shall I re-heat a bit the blade after ?...
Woodworking is a gateway drug to smithing. Once you realize you can make furniture to your exacting specifications, making your own tools and hardware to make that furniture isn't far behind.
@PeterGrace Is that for black powder or are you making your own bullets for reloading?
@PeterGrace Valid point. Unfortunately, on the tags I frequent on StackOverflow there are far too many without a 'correct' answer checked. I'd hate to see that happen here.
@PeterGrace I definitely agree with you there. In programming, someone can ask "This function isn't working. The output should be X, but it's Y. What's the problem?" then get an answer and immediately test whether it works or not. Here, there may be unavoidable delays - you might need to actually get in the shop and test it, or it might take a while to see the results (suggestions for improving finishing technique, for example)
I just stumbled into tags which start with "wood" (by searching for [wood-*]). It's obviously that all the questions on this site have and will have to do with wood.
Do our tags need contain "wood"?
