These portable contractor saws are typically loud; they are essentially a skilsaw strapped to the underside of a table.
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These portable contractor saws are typically loud; they are essentially a skilsaw strapped to the underside of a table.
In the violin making world, using a larger plane than necessary is akin to driving brads with a sledge hammer. You size the tool to the job at hand.
If Cosman is only familiar with planing...
I have a Veritas low angle jack plane; I see Woodriver has a low angle jack offering on the Woodcraft site, but I don't see the low angle listed on Cosman's site. I'm assuming Woodcrafts pricing is...
Exactly. First thing I would check before anything else is the fence alignment. I don't use a riving knife myself, but if you do, it's got to be set square and centered to the blade.
Beautiful job!
In violin making, a surface fresh from the plane is visually preferred to anything done with sandpaper, as sandpaper tears the wood fibers, rather than cutting them. After raising the grain, follow...
I have to respectfully disagree. Any microgrooves left in the honed surface leave small tooth grooves right through the cutting edge. If you look at microscopic photos of honed edges with varying...
Being an external combustion engine, a coal fired steam engine is acceptable?
California will eventually look like the streets of Havana, with 50 year old oil burners being the norm.:D
I got these heads used for next to nothing. The nice thing about the trammels is that you can make a circle from a few inches to 20+ feet, limited only by the length of the beam you clamp them to.
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Good glue and some brads in a butt joint are generally more than adequate for drawers and cabinets.
I have a set of Eclipse Trammel heads. You can put a pencil in one side for drawing circles, or a steel divider point. I made an adapter that attaches to my router base for routing out large circles,...
Here's my plane, all original.
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And this Sandvik set:
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Here's pics of the saw set I mentioned, plus a couple of other sets I have:
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Does anyone have any history on these pieces?
MPH only makes perfect sense when the country is surveyed in a road grid of square miles, as is Canada. Offering directions in the country was easy, going north or south, crossroads are every two...
I've thought the same thing for years. A Shop-Vac labled 2HP means that 1119 watts is consumed producing noise, and the remaining 373 watts produce vacuum. I had an old Eureka vacuum cleaner from...
I'm not opposed to plywood, as long as it's good stuff. Lately, any cabinetry I make is with Baltic Birch plywood. Pound for pound, it's stronger and will outlast ordinary wood construction.
I have a similar saw set that belonged to my grandfather. He's passed away now, but he told me it was very old when he got it when he was a young man.
I'll take pictures of it when I get back in...
I bought some Engleman spruce from a sawmill in southern British Columbia; The tree was felled about 4 days previous, the pieces were about 24 inches long, and split into quarters. He split it for me...
It looks like it got pretty warm. Anytime an induction motor doesn't come up to speed within 1 second after turning it on, there's something wrong and should be immediately switched off until the...
There are a few different ways of sharpening a scraper; some just put a flat 90 degree edge on the scraper, some put a hook on the 90 degree edge; others sharpen to a 30 or 45 degree bevel, and then...
By stock, I meant a piece of material that other scrapers can be cut out from. The pieces I have bought are about 1/16" thick, and about 3 X 6".
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I honestly have no idea. Perhaps ask around the forums to see if someone has a motor for parts?
Depending on how the centrifugal mechanism fastens to the shaft, you could probably use one from...
Sandvik makes some good quality scraper stock. It's quite hard, so I score it with a dremel cutoff wheel and snap it in the vice jaws to size it for the job.
If you cut right through it, it...
If you open up the motor, you will find a set of start contacts on one end of the motor shaft. These contacts must be closed when the motor is at rest, and open up when the motor comes up to speed....