What the non-woodworking world is missing is that this cut can be made on a SawStop. Kickback can cause serious injury even if no flesh contacts the blade.
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What the non-woodworking world is missing is that this cut can be made on a SawStop. Kickback can cause serious injury even if no flesh contacts the blade.
Totally agree with this. Do NOT shim. If you do, the shelf will never go flat. 21x21 is big for a shelf, and with a load and only 1/4 off, it will not rock.
Not sure. Probably length and diameter are linked. What you want is more movement for a given angle change. (Precision, not accuracy.)
Just a comment about levels: As Jim said, accuracy depends on alignment of the tube with the body. The tube itself is going to be accurate. For a bubble level, precision depends on the size of the...
He puts in a single wedge, just enough to keep the board from rocking. This works because his board is about 2 inches thick, maybe more. For a thinner board, say, 1 inch, it would flex under the...
Left a pair of gloves in a friend's truck, but thought they were in the shop. Found all sorts of missing things while I was looking for those gloves. (Friend returned them when I saw him a few days...
When I have to make repetitive cuts, I sometimes put a block against the fence (maybe 4 - 5 inches long), and measure from there. Then I clamp the block to the end of the fence, well in front of the...
After trying lots of approaches, I've come to this: Align the joint and strengthen the joint as two separate steps.
I cut the miter carefully, and then glue up the joints with stretchy masking...
What are you using for wood? When I started, I tried to start with milled pieces from Home Depot, but very rapidly found that that wouldn't work. Too expensive, too limited in species and sizes, and...
Looking at these in my shop today, I realized I have a somewhat strange collection, and that the tools vary from extremely useful to a complete waste of money. Here's a little article showing all 17...
That's about how old I was in the 1950s when my father started me in woodworking. He was bad at it (painted plywood cabinets, with lots of store-bought molding to cover the joints). And he was a bad...
UPDATE: Daughter's project completed; she is back at school; new switch arrived today. As Curt noted, very common and available from Amazon.
That was coming next. Table saw would have voice control: "Dad, plug it in."
My grad-student daughter is here for the week, and we spent hours in the shop building a couple of tray-like containers for some keyboards she's designing for her Masters in Mechanical Engineering...
Just bought a DeWalt DW6184. 1/2 with a collet for 1/4. Called by them compact. Maybe you need even smaller?
Better to put this in a new thread.
With the Xtracts, make sure you put a backing pad between the abrasive and the sander's plate.
Yes, exactly that happens to me when board is way off. I back it out and then go again, as you said. After jointing, the bad start is milled away.
OP here. This dowel plate stuff is so confusing! So, while I try to sort it out, I dropped into my nearest Woodcraft retail store to just buy some dowel rods. But, instead, I bought this dowel-maker...
Yes, that is exactly what I am using. My main question is about how well discs like the one that came with the sander would work.
I've never used a dowel plate, but from what I read here on a few threads about them, the dowels that they produce aren't perfect, with various defects. People say that they turn out better if you go...
Great idea, Bruce, for my 5-hole 5 in. ROS. I could make one on my 3D printer, I think. But not needed on my new sander, since I'll be using mesh discs. My questions were more about how disks like...
Thanks, Jim. But does it seem to you that the sanding disc that came with the sander would have adequate air flow?
Just got a new orbital sander (Bosch GET75-6N) with pad holes as shown in photo A. The sanding disc that came with it is shown in photo B. I didn't bother putting that disc on, but actually lining up...
I looked at Xtract Cubitron on the 3M site, and the grids jump from 80 (coarsest) to 120. I'm looking to remove a lot of material, but it seems that this product is for finishing. Is this right?