You just described my life.
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You just described my life.
OK. The forms are built. Just waiting for a deeper hole saw to drill holes in the forms for clamps. And yes, perhaps I should have made the middle hollow. It weighs more than I can possibly lit....
Cancel the order and have them get you a new, undented car.
Tesla somehow badly dented a new car I had ordered a couple of years ago. They hemmed and hawwed for 2 weeks saying how long the repair...
I did just find a 2" diameter hole saw whose description says it can drill up to 6-1/4" depth.
https://www.grainger.com/product/SPYDER-Hole-Saw-2-in-Saw-Dia-38HY29?opr=ILOF
I can't imagine how...
Great to see you back making sawdust, Bill. Slow and steady wins the race here. And 2/3 is a gazillion times better than 0/3 years.
Lance may be free to rent now. As is the bike he rode that a friend of mine bought during his Tour de France days, and now is pretty worthless.
OK. Now the next problem. I have built 8 forms, to be attached to each other to make the required 5-1/2" height to bend the wood laminations against the jig. They have been rough cut on the...
Interesting, Bill. I know nothing about motors, but that motor at 0.5HP at 12V should draw roughly 35ish amps / 420W. What would power that? A car battery? Are there 120VAC - 12VDC power supplies...
That's exactly what I do. I have a glass mason jar with desiccant pellets in the bottom, and bottles of Thin, Medium, and Thick CA glue in the closed mason jar in the fridge. Haven't had any go bad...
Making the forms out of 3/4" mdf. Had several people helping load the MDF and the truck I had to hire to move the 4x4 half sheets of MDF. Lots of work just to get 8 4x4 sheets to the workshop.
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Really nice reply by Marc Spagnuolo thanking him for being his mentor.
Are these replays of Woodworks? All of the videos I find there are years old. Just want to make sure I'm watching the correct videos.
I need 1-1/2" final thickness, so at minimum 8 pieces, at most 12. Lotta gluing of curved parts. Oh well...
Ouch. Lots and lots and lots of laminations.
Mine is "just" two rooms. But, at least down here, garages don't factor in to "conditioned space", and thus the sq footage that a house is listed at. So in theory, I think, my house grew by 2400 sq...
I agree. That's the game plan. I'll bandsaw outside the line by 1/8" or so, then pattern rout the remainder.
I think it will have to be smaller strips. I can't imagine being able to bend 1-1/2" white oak. And I couldn't get air dried, so it's kiln dried.
Still not sure the maximum thickness I can bend...
Really wondering what mine will add to the property value. I live in an interesting house. The workshop we built is on the ground floor - 2400 sq ft. Climate controlled with plumbing. Could be...
Wood arrived yesterday. Busy making the forms now. Using 3/4"MDF. OMG the weight of 8 of these on top of each other to accommodate the 5-1/2" wide wood that needs to be bent will require help, to...
I was forced to sign a non-compete clause in a contract when moving to Florida 27 years ago. It turned out afterwards that the doctor who owned the practice was a real dirtball and was committing...
Was getting ready to go to the Woodworking Show in Tampa this weekend. Went on their website. It's been cancelled. On their website, "Do to a lack of exhibitors, education and prior shows...
Yes, I thought the same thing. That rig does have my attention, but I am planning on using something similar.
Probably going to order 8/4 QS White Oak today. I doubt they'll have air-dried, but...
High of 84° today. Seems like spring to me.
I built laminate over plywood. Has worked great. Always worry about MDF in Florida with humidity, even though workshop is climate controlled.
And some of them are called surgeons. Just sayin...
What I like most about this forum is that you get advice. Most good, some not so much, some just not for me, but usually a wide variety. You...