About a month ago I began a thread about designing and building two carver chairs to accompany the 6 bentwood chairs we have owned for the past 40 years. The chairs were purchased all those years ago along with a table, which is around 200 years old. We need a larger table, and time has come to...
Last Post By: stephen thomas Today, 3:07 PMHas been restocked.. Bought 10 planks...for $30...had to cut a few of the 10 footers down, to fit into the Trunk of my Chevy Equinox... Eight 1 x 6 x 6' Five 1 x 4 x 6' And he threw in a stack of shorts And a 3/4" x 8" x 39" slab..
Last Post By: steven c newman Today, 12:56 PMOne of those sitting at the computer in the morning with a cup of coffee itching to buy a new tool ... So I come across this Veritas Scraper Burnisher for Turners and looked at a few videos reviews of it and thought why not. After reading a few reviews posted on this forum I later realized it was...
Last Post By: stephen thomas Today, 1:46 PMAccording to the book I'm reading (What If ? 2 by Randall Munroe) The second programmable computer, UNIVAC was the size of a room, made in 1951 from vacuum tubes. If the same machine was made from Iphone chips today, they could be imbedded in a single grain of salt.
Last Post By: Alex Zeller Yesterday, 5:46 PMHad a 7.5 baldor, had a seperate post on this because I thought I figured out what was going on but evidently this is beyond my knowledge or experience. I replaced caps on 7.5 baldor, no difference, bought new leeson 7.5 hp, both single phase motors, got it hooked up, check wiring, cranked...
Last Post By: Curt Harms Today, 9:58 AMBeen doing it like (or equivalent) this for years. (Votes: 4)
Wow! Never thought of that. (Votes: 0)
Been doing it with mirrors. (Votes: 2)
Ain't got a boat, truck, care… (Votes: 0)
I just found out today that Jim Adkins passed on May, 15. We had kept in contact by phone since 2011, but late last year we were both having trouble contacting
Richard Madden Today, 4:41 PMThe process Jim mentions is a good one. I recommend and use it often. It’s just sometimes easier. I will say that the larger tooling is far more forgiving
Michael Burnside Today, 4:28 PMThe Ashville NC area is really nice; good cultural opportunities with arts and music, and like many small cities, the surrounding areas can be more rural/mountainous
Jim Becker Today, 4:14 PMI agree that the CSX-18 is a great all around drill/driver and am glad to have one in my arsenal, but I still prefer the smaller CSX drill/drivers for
Jim Becker Today, 4:09 PMWell, the shanks will be .5" but so will the tool. You need that much metal to not get a huge amount of chatter. The challenge is going to be with
Jim Becker Today, 4:06 PM
Time for some levity
Thread Starter: Dave Anderson NHWith all of the negativity and political stuff going on with the Covid-19 virus it is time to look at the humorous side of things. Feel free to add more, but keep it clean or it will be deleted.
Last Post By: Dave Anderson NH Yesterday, 7:57 PM