Over the past year, my Supermax 19-38 has developed a problem. Even when taking light passes (0.010 - 0.005") on wider (8") boards, the conveyor will bog down and sometimes stop but the intellisand...
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Over the past year, my Supermax 19-38 has developed a problem. Even when taking light passes (0.010 - 0.005") on wider (8") boards, the conveyor will bog down and sometimes stop but the intellisand...
I just went through sort of the same thing. We needed new outdoor furniture and ended up buying an entire teak set. The price of raw teak was astronomical and limited in size availability. As we...
this looks pretty good. i still have to make a stand/holder but it could be much simpler
I want to set up dust/chip collection for my mortiser. What I need is something that allows me to position a vacuum nozzle close to where the mortise is being cut. I envision a fitting that can be...
I’ve glued brass to cocobolo. I roughed up the brass with 120 grit sandpaper and used epoxy. It’s lasted for years.
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Had one for about 12 years and cannot imagine life without it. Calibrating it to be parallel to the blade is a little tedious but I don’t have to do it very often. You definitely need to lock it down...
I use to go to woodworking galleries (I live near the Krenov school in Mendocino county) and look at the beautiful, precise work and wish I were that good. To broaden my skills, I took a machinist...
I built a set of bunk beds with drawers underneath. Instead of slides, I put the drawers on casters and used “guides” attached to the bed frame. This is a much simpler structure and allows the...
The thing about woodpeckers is that they are both well designed tools and a piece of art. There are some I use all the time and others that get used a couple times a year, if that. Some of the...
I too use an Incra jig for box joints (on small boxes). It is absolutely critical to use a backer board but I also use a front board so I end up with a sandwich. Everything is clamped tightly to the...
I have the Makita cordless stapler. I bought it to attach hardware cloth to a large walk-in blueberry cage. I figured I drove about 3000 staples during the process. It worked virtually flawlessly and...
I do wonder that if in the act of saving a hand the sawstop might cause a heart attack.
I have a Prusa printer that I use quite a bit for a mix of purposes. I’ve made dust fittings, ZCI for my bandsaw and drill press, and small jigs. Sometimes it’s much easier to make a replacement part...
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Has supermax declined since bought by Laguna?
After expanding my skills into machining, my standards for accuracy have gotten a lot tighter and when I dimension wood I like to...
I have a Supermax 19-38 drum sander and am considering an upgrade. I wasn’t sure how much I’d use it but it’s become a key part of my workflow. A project now starts with wood that is perfectly...
I’ve had many cases in the last 20 years where a drill guide would have been useful but never bought one … until Woodpecker’s came out with one as a new One-Time-Tool. It is much more expensive than...
I remember the concept of “appropriate technology” from college decades ago. As both a metal worker (DRO equipped mill and lathe) and woodworker (medium sized shop with Incra on both table saw and...
I had the same problem with a big Grizzly jointer. Called customer service and they noted that they had added an interlock safety switch but the manual hadn’t been updated yet. Nothing on the panel...
I've made a bunch of queen sized beds. I used the hook/plate hardware on the first one and never used it again. (Those beds rack as you move them around and can squeak with "vigorous bouncing".) I...
With the amount of labor I put into a box spending $30-40 for hinges seems worth it. It would be a shame to have a beautiful, handmade box and not use the best hinges.
It’s sawdust is hostile to tools. I built a garden bench out of ipe years ago and use epoxy to glue it up. There were a couple curved pieces I cut on my Inca bandsaw. The dust got into a worm gear...
I picked the makita for several reasons one of which was that it is quick to fill when turned on. I looked at a similar model from CAP and it took much longer. Quiet is a bonus because who knows...
I have a pretty well equipped shop but I’ve never had a compressor. I’m about to add one mostly for an air gun and to provide small amounts of compressed air to run small, model machines. (I have no...
They’ll also be a pain to move. I made a medium sized bench out of Ipe and it is fun to ask someone to move it. They approach it expecting it to be easy to lift and react like it is bolted to the...
About 3/8”.
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