Jim Becker
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"Which saw" matters. If you go higher end, you'll get a little better performance. Aside from noise and power, the fences at the lower end are...

I use my Centipedes with some portable surfaces that are sorta-torsion-boxes-but-not-built-as-well-as-they-could-be. :) A nice surface on them would...

Why do you want the Rotex? Do you have heavy stock removal requirements that will justify the slightly more awkward balance that the Rotex sanders...

"Technically", Taiwan is part of China...that said, I agree with the statement early on in this thread that regardless of where something is actually...

A torsion box doesn't have to be 10-12" thick to be stable. If you want something portable, go thinner...you'l just be giving up the convenient...

I've done it for cabinet doors for a client, so it should work just fine doing it with a pre-hung door. It's a pain to remove the moldings cleanly,...

My dream shop will be one that's at least as large as the one I have now when we do our "downsize" move...if it has to be smaller, it will be less of...

I just looked at the Mini-Gorilla for someone in another thread. Nope, that's not going to cut the mustard with your larger tools. Their next step up...

I have used both plywood and MDF for door panels in my kitchen. Despite paying attention during finishing, the MDF didn't perform as well over time...

I saw them demonstrate their machine at a show two years ago in Secaucus NJ.

I like that portable mini-Gorilla for small shop use because, if I'm not mistaken, it can adapt pretty well to higher static pressure situations that...

Just so things are fair, the belts on my Camaster Stinger II (and other Stinger models) are short and heavy and are merely driving a pinion gear from...

Scott, I did just that in my current shop, but it could easily be restored to being a "garage" by a future owner if they didn't want a shop. (silly...

I agree with Steve...interesting appearance, but not really necessary. Normal clamping pressure for work-holding isn't huge and ash is very...

CFM numbers on "mass market" dust collectors are dubious at best and you can pretty much never get a fan curve to know what the expected performance...

Position your sharpening station near your lathe in the position that is "most natural" for you to turn to from where you stand at the lathe to do...

Good joinery doesn't need filling and it's normal if the line is still visible under paint in a hand-crafted product. Fillers can cause more issues...

Just buy an equivalent sized LED "shop light" fixture from your choice of vendors....all mine are from Costco. They are very light weight and easy to...

David, that's a good point. My gates are actually up higher and closer to the "main" in my shop. The one for my drum sander is actually at the...

Will, if you want to see this kind log arch in action, a number of Matt Cremona's videos on the 'Tube show that and he moves BIG logs, especially...

That's exactly why I immediately addressed the fence issue on the south side of our property when the tenant put it up to contain their (cute)...

OTOH, the riving knife mounted guard/collector I have on my slider is not very worthy because it's too constrictive to air flow...so it almost never...

A large percentage of the gates on the market do not fully open because of the detent in the gate to keep you from pulling it all the way through....

Camaster, ShopBot and ShopSabre are the big three of "really nicely built" USA-made machines. I'm less familiar with the latter two. What I really...

You're correct...I forgot to look at the diagram again. You sill need to drill past the tenon into the post, but yea...a separate dowel from each...

That makes economic sense, Tom.

I would not split off after you're already at 4". You'd be wasting the benefits of the 6" drop significantly.

The farther it extends in front of the front of the blade, pardon the expression, the better the pickup. But there will always be material that...

No changes to the software here in a long time, John. And yes, I was going to guess on 15-16 being the limit.

Yes, drill through holes through the post, pardon the expression :), slip the tenon in all the way and mark the through hole location, pull out the...