brent stanley
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This guy uses Accoya for a few projects as well if anyone wants to watch it being machined. Even made dominos with it:...

I've never really had a problem proactively dealing with grain raising on any water based finishes, I was just wondering if the processing made it...

I didn't get any in the end Joe. I couldn't justify a $1000 minimum order just to satisfy my curiosity, so I wanted to try and find a few people...

Here's a bit more material on the history of Accoya over here. There's some mediocre stuff bouncing around the US, and who knows where it ended up. ...

Well said. I have charts and tables that live beside the shapers to make sure I'm in the ballpark, and then that's all refined while running the...

That's a great resource!

Your feed rate (in inches/minute) divided by your desired chip thickness ( in inches) gives you cuts per minute. Divide that by your number of...

Hi Jon, I just went through this with mine. When you feed stock through, can you see your chip breaker lift a little bit? Also can you hear...

How long a tenon can you do with that set Warren? Mine's good for around 1.25". It'll be interesting to see what they say if they get back to...

The "Hand Tool" portion of the Tools discussion is up! https://youtu.be/V_2J86Z6h5Y B

Hi Warren, if it's a 3ph machine you could consider adding a drive to give you more options. I was panel raising with the small machine last night...

Wow, you're going to love that! Congrats! B

I would be interesting to compare side by side, but I only have one set of college course material from when I went to England a while ago and it's...

Exactly! Excellent point. It's very difficult to know from the outside what can be run and what can't if you don't know the build of the machine,...

That's interesting Wayne because I've heard the same thing. Talking with shop owners around Europe I find that some of them admit they were all...

When you receive training in Europe it often includes all kinds of gory images when they discuss safety and let me assure you....you still want to...

Also, if unskilled operators unfortunately get bitten, at least the bite will be less significant with MAN rated tooling........of course MAN rated...

The regs actually cover jointer heads too believe it or not! They need to be chip limiting too with things like the Tersa head and others. B

There are more all the time, but for the most part you're right. CGG Schmitt and Toolstoday sell MAN rated kit, and FS Tools talks about it in their...

Not willingly! :) When properly ground there's way less feed resistance than you'd think. The panel raisers are so easy to use with a power feeder...

Slightly terrifying isn't it? However this beast (when the knives are ground properly!) is MAN rated and it's slightly intimidating when you first...

It's really just an EU tooling safety standard adopted by Germany, UK Belgium etc. It's pretty darn subtle for some tooling and correspondingly less...

Hi Martin, it's a designation used in many European countries for cutting tools that means it has met many safety requirements and criteria and is...

Thanks Rod, I'm in the middle of finishing a top to bottom kitchen Reno for clients and should be able to get back at it. However with the deep...

So I had a fun day today installing some crown moulding.....that I milled myself over cabinets I made with all my inexperience.....after walking...

I stick my notebooks to the side of each shaper with a magnet so they're always handy! It is a pain to not be able to see them in person, and...

I don't know anyone who has one. They're popular in Europe I understand, and I expect they're great considering the Mafell reputation, but I'd like...

He doesn't have one of their groovers, he has on of their slotters which is a different set of tooling and is build differently if you look at the...

I used tenon discs instead. My objective for that job was a centred tenon and flipping to do one side each provided that. If you look at the...

I have used adjustable groovers for tenoning, but for clarity what we were talking about was splitting the adjustable groover for tenoning, and no I...