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)
The 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 PMI'd like to have more of it in largish clear pieces.
Have some on hand, like you, given to me by a friend/ the widow of the guy who milled it.
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