HAMMER K3: guide book??

[Ray Newman]

Colleagues: the recent threads and posts on the Hammer machines has once again re-kindled my interest in a K3.

Is there a guide, how-to-do-it book/manual that explain the various functions, operations/cuts, unique techniques, etc., of the K3 slider?

Been searching here and via Google, but have not found anything.

[Patrick Harper]

Ray,

I've been searching for the same, but have found nothing in English. Some videos on Youtube but they are usually in German. I would love to see someone cutting dados, angle tenons, miters, etc.

[Rod Sheridan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV8A3XK3R0I

Hi, this is the best video I've found for illustrating how a slider is used.

It's long, but worth watching.

Here's one showing a machine being used to make a rocking chair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgellk8U85w

I could take photographs if there is anything you're really interested in (I have a B3).

Regards, Rod.

[Megan Fitzpatrick]

I assume you've already found the videos on the Felder USA site, but just in case:
http://www.hammerusa.com/products_videos.php?parent=9e5e5cc98dc03df70393&xat_code=c396e92aedc576887d67f1706ce0d7ca&region=us-us

And FWIW, I love the K3 we have in the shop; the sliding table makes it a LOT easier and safer to cut sheet goods.

[Ryan Mooney]

David Best wrote an unofficial survival guide. IMHO its perhaps a bit thin on the saw side but invaluable on the shaper side. Its also a bit dated (2004) and doesn't explicitly cover the hammer machines although the overlap is fairly high. There are also some other howto's on his site.
http://davidpbest.com/Publications.htm

If you buy one, do watch the commissioning video at the site Megan linked to, it will save you a bunch of head scratching!

[Ray Newman]

Colleagues: thanks for all the information.

[John Lankers]

Your best bet would be to find a Hammer / Felder owner in your area who is willing to show you and maybe teach you a few tricks. Try contacting the Felder dealership in your neck of the woods and see if they're able to set something up - or just post a request right here. As Rod suggested YouTube is probably your best option at this time, the unofficial Felder survival guide - as valuable as it is - has very little information that could be applied to the Hammer.

[James Zhu]

http://www.solowoodworker.com/mm/slider.html

This page illustrates what a slider can do, the owner has MiniMax combo, but all the techniques he mentioned apply to all the sliders.

For Felder/Hammer sliders, they have dado capability, check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06PzXIqzQXM

Fritz and Franz in German https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqzVglze9Nk

Charles' jig of Fritz and Franz http://www.solowoodworker.com/mm/rip.html

[Ray Newman]

James Zhu, thanks for those links!

[ian maybury]

That's a question i asked many times in recent years Ray. There's bits and pieces about, and quite a few of them linked here already - but i've never been able to come up with what might be described as a comprehensive slider technique manual.

It's a fairly similar deal so far as shapers and other machines are concerned. I've never been able to figure why, it's the sort of thing you would imagine would be 101 in woodworking school.

Chances are that if we spoke German it'd be readily available, that part of the issue with sliders is that they are very much a minority flavour in English speaking markets - but so long established in home/German speaking markets that nobody imagines that there could be an issue….

[John Lankers]

Ian, if you do a YouTube search for FORMATKREISSAEGEN that will bring up a few videos on sliding table saws in German, nothing earth shattering though.

[ian maybury]

Thanks John, will try that.