After a long but mainly passive search, one of these machines came up for sale near me. I plan to restore it. It runs well and the pneumatics function but it has a few points i need to address. If nothing else I can greatly admire whomever designed this machine, it leaves me in awe...
Last Post By: Brian Holcombe Today, 10:31 AMI lofted the station moulds for her about six years ago, but we moved to a place with less room to build a boat, so she went on hold. I have borrowed a place to build and am going to make all the bits and pieces in my shop, then assemble them in the borrowed space. This is going to be a slow...
Last Post By: andy bessette Yesterday, 8:15 PMThe current chisels I am using I bought over 30 years ago in a hardware store in a Chicago suburb. I'm in the market for a new set of bench chisels. I can't justify a really expensive set but would like to have some reasonable quality chisels. I'm not a hand tool expert so I'd like some opinions on...
Last Post By: Bruce Haugen Yesterday, 11:43 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFWX3EwnO14 Impressive - but - -I can bring myself to call this woodworking.
Last Post By: Brian Holcombe Yesterday, 5:05 PMI spent 30 years as a computer programmer. I viewed myself as a blue collar worker in a white collar world. But various companies insisted on calling me a software engineer and it bugged me. To me, engineers are degreed and licensed like doctors and lawyers. Civil engineers put their stamp on...
Last Post By: Tony Leonard Yesterday, 3:57 PMI have the Shopfox equivalent of that jointer (straight knives though). I love the jointer but I try to avoid changing the fence position for that reason
David Sloan Today, 1:22 PMGreat suggestions! The pads are .095 worn out so I'm ordering .125 x .75 x 2 foot uhmw for $3! I should be able to make what I need from that. Thank you.
Mike Mulville Today, 1:22 PMFor speed you need to sandcarve for sure. My office is in Suwanee, Satellite Blvd about a mile from Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd.
Gary Hair Today, 1:22 PMThat’s the way. If you need one, buy at least three. That slippery slope becomes a vertical drop quick.
I have the Powermatic Dual Drum 25" wide sander. It works very well but I do not use it to dimension panels like a commercial shop might use a wide
Joe Jensen Today, 1:18 PM
Vintage Martin T75 restoration
Thread Starter: Patrick WalshSo I have a opportunity to purchase the above machine for a fair deal from my employer. I am aware of the phenolic guides being pop riveted I the the sliding table along with not availible for replacement. So my question is as follows to those in the know with regard to the phenolic ways....
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