What's a good woodworking group? I'm doing a lot of model airplane work these days. It's driving me to build my own tools, as well maintaining my chisels to a higher level of keenness than I've ever done before (balsa wood is very unforgiving of a dull blade).
So I want to start lurking, eventually start asking questions about good books and/or sites to learn more about building tools of my own design, just what is the right way to set up a chisel, etc.
Thanks.
rec.woodworking is a pretty good group.
When I have the time I hang with the neanderthals at the old tools mailing list, as being somewhat higher s/n than rec.woodworking, but currently I have about 15,000 unread messages in that mailbox, as I've been short of time. Typical email listserve arrangement. Blurb follows:
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