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Currently, I am using heavy wire shelving. If you buy the good stuff, it will hold a lot of weight, and it has wheels: 800 lb with wheels 4,800 lb without wheels. These are a bit pricey. When I bought mine, I had considered making a wheeled lumber rack, but when I priced it out, I found that the wire shelf was cheaper. TRINITY 6-Tier Wire Shelving Rack, 48"x18"x72" is what I have. I only use the bottom half. Smaller pieces go into a plastic box, and eventually, I cut them into small toys. Anything that is left gets burned in a backyard fire. The only bits and pieces I keep are if darker woods I can cut contrasting trim pieces from.

I had two packages this year that were delivered slowly. One was a priority mail package that didn't get delivered for almost three weeks from Florida to Michigan. When you print a label, the USPS tracking will show it as in pretransit if the local post office doesn't scan it when they pick it up. It will show in pretransit until it gets scanned somewhere else. I have had this happen two times. My online sales were up 50% this year, my usual trend. I don't see a big boost from COVID-19 shoppers or Christmas. I have never seen the Christmas shopping bump. My best month for 2020 was August. Oddly, I always sell something between Christmas and New Years' day.

DeWalt DWP611PK is the way to go. If you get the kit, you will have a very versatile router.

It makes a good backer for tray puzzles. It cuts and sands easily but has lots of fuzzies.

I have a Drill Doctor. I don't use it much because my bits don't get dull often in my work. It works great, and it doesn't take many sharpenings to pay for it when you consider everything. However, the smallest bit it will sharpen is 3/32". If you use bit sizes that are not readily available, it is, even more cost effective.

I make Birdhouse Ornaments, small toys, and animal cutouts. I keep a box of small patterns ready, so I cut a car, truck, or animal when there is free space on a piece of wood. You can make some beautiful toys from glue-ups of dissimilar wood. I recently made a batch of birdhouse ornaments from bits and pieces of wood I glued together. Cut small parts to use on projects you make regularly. I had a small piece of wood perfect for those little birds on the birdhouses but not good for much else. I cut the entire piece into birds, so I now have a box full to use the next time I make ornaments. Inkscape is your friend when doing something like this. I set the document size to the wood's size and add birds and arrange them to get maximum yield from the wood.

They make bottles that are chemical resistant. I have been using these for a few years and the only thing I have found that didn't work in them was mineral spirits. Mineral spirits would soften the o-rings after awhile.

I have a lot of Harbor Freight bits and I have never had an issue with them. However, I examine them carefully and look at what material they are made from and where they are made. I only by twist drills from Harbor Freight.

I have two scroll saws. Primary and a backup. I I don't know how many clamps I have. I still run out some times.

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You can spray at least as wide a pattern with an airbrush as a rattle can. I have a bunch of airbrushes. I make mostly toys. My favorite and the one I highly recommend is the Badger 155 Anthem. It will spray as fine as most of us are likely to need and wide enough to cover larger areas using the same tip. I spray mostly acrylics and shellac, but Badger airbrushes will spray anything while the China airbrushes will not hold up to things like lacquer. The China airbrushes are cheap until you break something and need parts, as I discovered when I broke a tip. The replacement parts cost almost as much as I paid for the airbrush, and they were tough to find. I can buy Badger parts direct from Badger, Amazon, and many other places on the internet. Badger will rebuild your airbrush for the cost of the parts.

Hitachi NP35A I use it for pinning axle pegs on toys. They are great to use in tight places an places where you don't want to mar the surface. Nails are generally to large for my work.

I didn't catch that you were talking about a monochrome printer. I've worked wit a lot of color printers over the years. I've never seen red toner or ink cartridges.

Why not just change the color on the pattern? BTW There is not a red toner cartridge.

There are hoses that are smooth on the inside.

I think the replacement cost for all the little things might be greater than the cost of all my power tools.

You can get a paid web site for as little as $4 a month plus the cost of your domain name. I used Blue Host for many years and only left them because my needs changed. Blue Host support was excellent. Google has free web hosting, although I have not used it.

I have the same Delta 1hp dust collector that Stumpy shows in the video. Eventually, I learned that if reduce neck down a 4-inch hose to 2.5-inches, it doesn't work as good as my vacuum with a quality filter. I have a good many tools, and none of them have a 4-inch port. The dust collector sits idle most of the time.

I love the air pillows. They weigh almost nothing. I save as many as I can, and my wife brings some home from work. I have not had to buy any yet, but they are cheap. About $0.04 each. $1.00 saved in shipping costs pays for 25 air pillows.

The only people that make money on consignments are the shop owners.

Some of the better ones will let you add a second tray. They usually stack. They are pricy, you can expect to spend $200 or more for a second tray.

It looks to me like someone didn't read the documentation. I remember seeing this. USPS comes to my house six days a week; they know where it is. Rarely does the shipping cost more than four dollars. I don't ever ship FedEx. I don't know what the shipper experience is, but I sure know what it is to be on the receiving end. Bad, very bad. About half the time, they deliver to the wrong house. They leave packages in strange places. I have had them deliver packages to a house where no one lives. They had to drive down my driveway to get to it. If they mess up and claim they can't deliver the package, I have to drive clear across town and pick it up. When I get there, they don't seem to know how to find my package. It usually takes two hours or more for me to retrieve it. I'm not going to ship FedEx.

I don't buy insurance. I did a little math, read the fine print, and decided that it wasn't worth the cost. If USPS says it was delivered, you will not get paid for lost packages. The thing that got me was the requirement of two inches of padding almost triples the shipping cost. Larger boxes and more packing material push the weight well over 16 ounces, so I can't ship first class anymore. It probably means a few fewer sales too. Now the boxes don't fit in my mailbox, and I either need to arrange for pickup or take them to the post office myself. USPS will pick them up, but I have to add more shipping time because I have to arrange for pickup the day before. A lot of orders come in after midnight. I ship with Etsy shipping, and the insurance is a third-party provider. That means there will be three people in a fight over a claim. USPS, me, and the insurance company. I plan to pack everything well and issue a refund or reship if there is a problem. So far, I haven't had to do either. I figure I have saved somewhere close to $600.00 so far.

Brother HL-3170CDW is what I use. The lighting got my first Brother printer. It has wired, wireless, and USB connections and works with any operating system. A big plus because this is a 100% Linux shop. It works great and never has a problem. There are lots of 3rd party toner cartridges available for it cheap. I worked in IT for more than 30 years. I that time, I came to call printers semi-automatic paper shredding devices. I have never had a jam other issue with this printer. I'm not too fond of any combination printer scanners. What you get many times is an OK printer and a poor scanner, which may be OK for your purposes, but remember that if the scanner stops working, you have to replace the scanner and the printer. It also adds complexity. I have an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner purchased directly from Epson.

If you are using a wet/dry vacuum and you want to get the very fine dust, you need a different filter in your vacuum. I highly recommend the GORE CLEANSTREAM Filters. I have been using one of these for several years and highly recommend them.