61 minutes ago
by NedB |
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I glued a sacrificial block onto a chunk of Mahagony I found in my storage unit the day before yesterday. Last night I broke out the turning tools after cobbling together a temporary lathe stand… I actually used my miter stand:
One thing I found, was that I want to lower the lathe a couple more inches,
II will need to get shorter bolts, which will help, I wound up putting the 2×8 I bolted the lathe to on top of two 2×4’s, which really raised things up higher than ...
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81 minutes ago
by Damian Penney |
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So it’s been a long time since my last post, had a bit of down time where I went on vacation and did odds and ends but I’d been making slow and steady progress on the top.
I can’t believe how much trouble I had gluing a bunch of sticks together :) All my issues stemmed from the fact that I didn’t have a good way of surfacing such long pieces. My 6” jointer just wasn’t up to the task so I faffed around trying to do it other ways. I eventually used a huge ...
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3 hours ago
by aussiman |
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Does anybody out there know if there is a universal adaptor to put pinless blades in a scroll saw made for only pinned blades . my son had cheap Chinese dynalink scroll saw given to him and wants to see if scroll sawing is for him. there seems to be much more variety of pinnless blades than pinned. if anybody knows of a adaptor I would be grateful of any info
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4 hours ago
by Harold Heitmann |
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Hi All you er’s
I have been restoring a 10er that was my father in laws. I need the length of the jig saw bladeno blades came with it. Also looking for a saw table and insert for the er.
Thanks Dale Heitmann Albuquerque New Mexico
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7 hours ago
by SST |
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Well, I just acquired Shopsmith # 3, but I’m not a collector. I can justify this..really. I was able to convince my wife and, after all, thats all that really counts, isn’t it?It all started with this kitchen, in my lake cottage, built in the mid 1950’s.
I had relegated my old shopsmith to the cottage several years before because, between when I was a kid and learned on it and when I inherited it from my dad, I’d accumulated a bunch of separate tools. I found an ent...
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8 hours ago
by itsme_timd |
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Hi Everyone,
A quick and easy trip for the pen box this time. It made the short jump over to Ryno101’s in no time at all. He sounds extremely excited to dig into this! Funny how all of us (supposed) grown folks get so childish over a box full of sticks. Remember Lincoln Logs??? Those were awesome…
Annny-how… the box is in great hands now and I know from the past posts that he’ll enjoy what awaits him when he opens this up. I’m actually starting to get...
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9 hours ago
by Rustic |
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Myh table saw made it home in 1 piece. They had to use heat and brute strength to get it off. Bought a new blade for it, a 60 tooth smooth cut Oldham. I also tested a router relief carving. to see pic go to my projects.
Back to makin sawdust yee haaw.
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14 hours ago
by Eric |
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So I had a good couple days in the shop before I packed it all up the other day. Besides doing the cushion frame for my friend, I did a lot of work on my marking knife. The first task was to get the blade satisfactory. In the end, I did this by cutting a 30(ish)-degree bevel on a piece of scrap, and then filed the bevels of the blade along that angle. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good. I then honed the blade on my waterstones, which was a real bear with no honing jig. By the ...
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16 hours ago
by MrWoody |
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Unfortunately I got involved in the next part and forgot to take pictures. The camera is now in the shop. I’ll do my best to explain what I did.After re-reading this, I decided that even I couldn’t understand what I did, so I used a piece of scrap poplar and made the cuts so I could take pictures.
Back to page 2 of the plans. I mentioned earlier that a piece needed to be fit between the turned boiler and the base. On page 3 there is another piece that needs to fit on top of the boiler. To s...
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1 day ago
by sIKE |
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Started working on the case this weekend and got it done this evening. Here is the Sketchup drawing of the case:and here is the final result:and here is the leveling configuration:
I need to go back to Sketchup and redo the torsion box as I had to reduce the width of the cabinet by one inch.
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