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GEMorris posted:Yeah the only way I'm upgrading my 735 is to a 12"+ spiral cutterhead combo machine, anything less isn't going to move the needle. Just buy a drop-in spiral cutter head into your 735. There's a couple company's that are offering them.
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serious gaylord posted:The best piece of advice I can give you on a large structural project is make sure your walls are straight first. Since they probably aren't. And not just straight up and down, but they'll probably have covex/concave places along them too.  why didn't I check as I built my aquarium stand
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Nemico posted:lol 4/4 cherry is $10 CAD/bf in my area RIP us  bois
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Enderzero posted:Well I've got a bit of a problem I could use some advice on. https://youtu.be/ILVCdEOhYBc This video has a few techniques for using a circular saw accurately, and personally I have one of those metal clamping guides and cut over foam board which works great.
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Danhenge posted:I found a local beekeeper and swapped cash for a big block outside a Walgreens like the silliest drug deal on the planet Is it good stuff?
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Check out Rex Krueger and Paul Seller's videos on hand plane restoration. It's way easier than you'd think
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That's why I like watching Rex Kreuger and Wood by Wright
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Would love to see some pics, and the wealth of knowledge in this thread can give you some insight for sure with that too. Suggestions for knobs and placement and the like.
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Cannon_Fodder posted:Table done, so what What species of wood did you use and what stain/finishes? That looks absolutely gorgeous!
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Also, a handheld circular saw with a clamp-on fence will do nearly everything the table saw will do anyways, and do it a lot safer. Lay your plywood over a 2" thick sheet of foam sheet board(not the polystyrene beads one, the dense polyurethane stuff), and set your blade depth properly and you'll be set.
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KingColliwog posted:I might make a mallet first though, because that sounds fun, easy and impossible to mess up. Woah there now, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves
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KingColliwog posted:Did I just jynx myself? I'm sure a board can be a mallet if you really want it to, so I can probably pretend that whatever terrible thing I end up making is totally a mallet! Nah I was just messing with you. A mallet is a great place to start. The Paul sellers mallet is really popular, but Rex did one on a really cool old design that I want to try myself https://youtu.be/sq3K6dLaquk
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His Divine Shadow posted:Oh yeah I finally finished that hifi shelf. Got the materials months ago but it just sat, I also just made it with butt joints instead of fingerjoints. I used shellac which I wiped on. I was going to go for a dark finish similar to the bookshelf. I am still experimenting with dark finishes on pine. I used ruby dewaxed shellac for this, but it turned out pretty darn light when I appled it with a rag. I would 100% be installing some nails or screws in those joints and adding some ventilation to that as well. Old hifi gear puts out a lot of heat and they need a good bit more than 1/4" of room around them to vent off via passive cooling. You have a good chance of some caps or a transistor or something exploding in there and starting an actual fire. Maybe cut some slits on the top and bottom in the back of the shelf where the air holes are in the outer case of the units. Option B is cutting a hole on either side of the units and between the divider at the rear and installing a small fan on either side to push air in and pull it out
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stranger danger posted:So I bought a wooden jointer plane ($12, couldn't pass it up) and the wedge that came with it has some hairline cracks in it. What kind of epoxy/filler/whatever should I use to fill the cracks and hopefully strenghten the wedge? Making a new wedge is probably above my skill level and seems like a major PITA besides. Yeah I recently bought a wood jack plane where I had to pry the blade/chip breaker out with a pair of pliers and some smacks with a mallet. Is it safe to pare down the inside of the cheeks a little with a chisel or rasp to open it up just enough to allow for adjustments in our extremely dry winters here?
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Yeah, the first time you build a shed or resheathe your exterior or want to cut rafters at a family members house quick and dirty, you'll appreciate having a good circular saw. Worm-drive supremacy
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Oooo. I have not checked out the new fangled technologies yet. I'll have to take a look at them. I've always used my dad's old wormdrive skillsaw and the bog standard inline circular saw Craftsman
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Just get one of the white Norton wheels and be down with it. They're great wheels
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Elder Postsman posted:Today was the first time in months it's been warm enough in my garage to do things, so I made a wooden sword for my kid since the cardboard one I made years ago finally fell apart. Used some 1/4" poplar scraps for the blade and old douglas fir for the handle. Make her a shield next :v
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Sockington posted:This is me with my basement. I just restarted it now that my skills aren’t quite so horrendous as when I started. If you don't mind my asking, what's your trade that you use those tools with? I notice you mentioned hot permits so you must work industrial. I'm an Insulator by trade myself and I've been debating getting a egg beater hand drill like that for just that scenario as well. 
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Sockington posted:I got stuck on a 135’ manlift yesterday without their normal tool tray, so I got busy making some shop level poo poo out of my pile scraps. Duuuuuude that's hella dope. Yeah that tray is a godsend. gently caress working on vessels and towers from a manlift though. Nothin like holding the 20' boiler sheet as a wind gust picks up and you hold for dear life as the lift sways back and forth 
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Leperflesh posted:oh, oh geez. Can you like, soak them in acid for a bit or something? That just don't look right. Given they're an industrial insulator, that tool is gonna be used out in the elements year round, thrown around filthy metal scaffolding, and covered in insulation on a regular basis. That there is a work horse, not a shop queen 
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Leperflesh posted:Picked up a really big oilstone in a handmade case at an antique store for $really too much money, it's got a big dip in the middle from the previous owner just sharpening knives on it. Anyone wanna sell me on the best/preferred method of flattening an arkensas stone when you need to take like an 1/8" or more off the top? Plate glass or equivalent with glued on medium to medium/coarse grit sandpaper, run the stone back and forth with even pressure and check frequently for chunks of abrasive or stone coming off and gouging deep
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Leperflesh posted:I only have a fine diamond plate and it's also too small. I use sandpaper on a 12" square stone tile for a lot of my hand plane lapping work so I'll give that a try, I wasn't sure if it'd work on the stone or if the stone'd be too hard. I assume water as lube, but this is an oilstone, so maybe oil instead? If it's a natural mined whetstone, it's a form of quartz crystal with a mohs hardness around 7 and Aluminum oxide in sandpaper has a hardness of 9 so it should work. If it's a synthetic so called "carborundum" stone, that's silicon carbide with a mohs of around 9.5, which will require a diamond plate to flatten E: also oilstone and whetstone are interchangeable terms, there's nothing special about using oil vs water as a lubricant, and you won't ruin anything by using water on it even if it has oil in it. If anything some soapy water would help clean the pores of oil which may make it cut faster as you lap it.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I've been thinking about something I got to do later this year. How do I move a 600kg bandsaw across an uneven gravel driveway to it's new home. First steps are removing both wheels, the table and the wooden enclosure to make less heav and less top heavy. But I still got 450-500kg left. Put it on the plywood with the crane first, and secure it. A ratchet strap or two may help as well. Then get some of those wheels they use for heavy chain link gates/tractors/ etc. That could handle the weight split over 4-6 wheels, and get one of those beefy large pallets they use for sheet metal, and mount the wheels to it, then lift and fasten the band saw to the pallet, then have you and some strong friends pull it over? Large diameter wheel casters or scaffolding base wheels may also work depending on your ground conditions. It's a hacky first thought but I'd probably do something along those lines. You could also probably rent a skid steer with forklift attachments with appropriate weight capacity for a day and do it that way. Line up whatever landscaping work you might have been putting off for a while too if you want to make more use of the machine while it's there Mederlock fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Mr. Mambold posted:That's a mallet fit for a judge. If only there were a judge fit for that mallet. I know just the Man 
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Mr. Mambold posted:drat harsh probe by Big Grain-Alignment. Gotte dang they spoiled his clean rap sheet over it! 
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NotNut posted:Some of my wood has rotted on an out building's roof, what would be the best filler or putty to use to replace it? It's mainly just about keeping it structurally sound (haven't seen any sagging or anything but better safe than sorry), doesn't really matter how it looks. Sawing out the wood, putting a new chunk in with an interlocking ship lap or some other joinery+lag bolts/whatevs, and then fix your roofing or watershed issue that caused the rot in the first place.
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anatomi posted:I thought the porn subforum had closed. Yeah, no homegrown allowed!!!!
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NotNut posted:Is there any place to learn about carpentry so I can understand stuff like this? Basically all I know is screwing in shelving, sawing two-by-fours and maybe nailing them to some plywood. If you're a beginner, I'd recommend trying something more like this, then. It's called sistering, and it's easier than making a fancy joint to do a pretty in line joint. It's basically sandwiching the damaged joist/rafter/whatever with 2 fresh boards. Heres a decent video. https://youtu.be/bqYTf4QHc8w But yeah, it'll certainly help if you could post some pictures and we can point you in the right direction
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PokeJoe posted:
No sense of the wood variety here, but Rex Krueger reverse-engineered an antique mallet pattern that looks fantastic. I'd have made it myself if I didn't have a nice antique one I got for like $5 already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq3K6dLaquk
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Meow Meow Meow posted:My Monticello stacking bookcase has been stacked for the first time, I assembled the base last night as a near final step. Still a few more things to take care of like finish the top half and base; and then a couple uprights to attach all the stacks together at the back. I feel like I've been working on this forever. This is super dope and I'm surprised no one else praised it! Love it!
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:. Please please please do this. It would be so great to get the collective wisdom of our skilled Maker Goons who manage to make it a profitable profession for those who want to break into that space.
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Bondematt posted:...I should go to garage sales apparently. I got a 5" vintage Record Machinist's vise for $25 at one, the guy's wife was running the garage sale as he had went out for beers with his buddy's and she accepted my offer 
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Leperflesh posted:I just strew my tools willy-nilly all over every flat surface, shove some into tubs, and keep buying more 
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a dingus posted:This sounds relevant to me since I'd like to build a basic entertainment console/record cabinet like this guy: https://wilburdavisstudios.com/shop/recordcredenza/ You can do it with a handheld planer if you have one, or you can use an electric planer, to make them flat. The wood's also gotta be dried and acclimatized to the environment it's going to be in if you want it to be as stable as possible when you're dimensioning it (ie. Let it sit in your house for a week before you start dimensioning it). Power tool wise, you wouldn't want to be dealing with cupping on a table saw or miter saw for safety and feasibility reasons, that's definitely a jointer/planer job. E: oh also a router on a sled can technically do it too with the right jigs Maybe this is the perfect time to pick up a No. 5, 6, or 7 Stanley hand plane and fix it up to work on the shelves! 
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Does anybody else here have one of those old Craftsman style 3 wheel bandsaws? I've got one that I've used a few times but it's janky as gently caress to set up so the blade doesn't walk off the wheels, is shouty and grindy, and doesn't like to cut straight. The wheels aren't even on bearings, they're brass or bronze? Bushings on a steel spindle with a little inner well for grease  . Was wondering if anyone here has managed to tune any of these up to a good level to actually be useful in the shop. I don't have the space or funds for a proper dual wheel bandsaw yet, but I'd like to get some effective use out of this unit.Here's a video of me cutting some ply on mine, was making little triangles that were the painted as little mountain table numbers for my wedding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5mN_Pj8fM Also here's some of the woodworking projects I made for my wedding, I made all the signs from lumber I reclaimed from a weathered 12' long wood crate, and I made all the wood cookies from a Birch tree my parents had cut down in their yard. The cookies were a right pain, rigged up a chainsaw for the cuts and spent 2 days feeding them through on the planer to square them up. I painted the mountains entirely by hand, and used white vinyl from a cricut for the other signs. My wife was super stoked about how they all turned out, so I was pretty happy with it  (scrubbed any identifying info from the photos)    
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Skunkduster posted:I'll go one dumber. I have a 15" Grizzly bandsaw and just use a general purpose blade. Maybe 5/8" 6tpi. I decided to do a quick cut on a piece of 1/4" aluminum rod and figured out it was steel when the sparks started flying. I put on my backup blade and was back in business until I needed to cut a couple inches off the backside of one of those cutting boards that slides in under the counter above the silverware drawer to make room to run some plumbing and wiring. I got about 1/3 of the way through and saw sparks. Things got a little smoky after that and I got more sparks 2/3 of the way through, but I pressed on because there was no turning back at this point. Turns out, there were two steel strips embedded in the cutting board to keep it straight and I completely chooched that blade as well. Cut them to the length of your hacksaw handle, drill a hole in each end in the right spot, profit. If you want to be real fancy, do the same thing but make a bow saw from scratch 
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