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The little lathe will live!

Mickey Cassiba — Sun, 20 May 2012 22:57:21 GMT

Got a Beamer deal today...1/2 HP Baldor motor attached to some sort of belt sander. 15USD:)
plugged it in, runs like silk. No heat at the bearings or the cap, a durn near perfect motor. Reversible to boot. Gonna have to build a bracket or two though.

We're having fun now!

WoodMangler — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:42 GMT

Got a big ol Maple log from a guy at work.... poor old baby Stihl had a workout getting this log cut in half...

Had to trim it with the chainsaw once I had it on the lathe... just enough so I could spin it.

Got it roughed to a little over an inch thick, packed it into a paper bag with it's own shavings and we will see in a few months...

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Porter Cable Question

Johnboy — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:55:50 GMT

Does a Porter Cable plunge base for a 893 will accommodate a 690 motor? I don't need a 2 1/2 hp router -- I want a smaller plunge router.

Furniture: Drawer Box Jig

rrich — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:02:21 GMT

A PDF of how I construct drawer boxes to account for slide hardware.

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BStopper turned just now!

SDB777 — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:54:22 GMT

Wish you could hold this one in your hand to see it...I'm stumped on doing a photo for it? The depth overtakes even my meager photo skills, both inside the light tent and outside in the sun....too many reflections equals awful photo! HDR turned it into some kind of LSD trip.....errrr!

Mix of clear and some kind of deep green PR.

Easy on the swirl, and pooh! Another little world with twister coming from the clouds. And no, I haven't had a drop of anything yet today!

Anyway, this is the best I could get:

Thanks for looking!

Scott (wife has some cool ideas sometimes) B

TEST

Leo Voisine — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:36:12 GMT

I bought a new video camera.

I think it looks good, but you be the judge.

Either at 240 or at 360 resolution you can go full screen and the video is pretty clear.

I did a few real close up - cause this is what I will NEED to be able to do.

Anyway - how does it look.

Slot cuuting a 3/8 slot on the end of 6 ft boards

Wisardd1 — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:15:04 GMT

Any suggestions? It is for bread board ends.

True Confessions

Johnboy — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:17:08 GMT

As the title implies, it is time to fess up -- I have not been using a splitter on my TS for an extended time; longer than I care to admit.

Several years ago I bought one of those micro-splitters with the intention of installing it soon after the purchase. However, having an after market zero clearance insert made out of aluminum I wasn't exactly sure how I would install it. So, I never got 'round toit'.

After talking to people about the micro-splitter during a chat session the other night I decided not to use it. People experienced the splitter being pulled out of the insert during the rip operation; the wood pinched it to the point of pulling it out. I thought this was just as dangerous as not having a splitter installed.

Events of the past week told me it was time to make one. During one of our (the wife and I) nightly walks I found a 1/8" X 1 1/4" x 36" piece of aluminum laying on the shoulder of the road. Evidently someone lost it off their vehicle -- still had the bar code on it. This morning I watched a woodworking video over the internet where the light bulb came on. The presenter had made a splitter out of aluminum! Do ya think someone was trying to tell me something? It took just an hour to make mine and here it is.

Now I can breathe a little easier the next time I need to rip.

I appoligize for being so verbose.

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The 'other' logging thread

SDB777 — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:49:23 GMT

Been a slacker lately, but I decided to burn a few days of vacation time and get some stuff cleaned up, moved, or burned(whichever is more fun). Okay....I was supposed to be cleaning up the pop-up camper so it can be used in a few weeks....but sawmillin' is a disease, and I had to have a 'fix'!!!!

Rolled this 1975pounder(Sweetgum/Redgum)(yup, there's an APP for that on my iPhone) onto the sawmill bunk by hand and took a pass to get rid of some of the 'nasty' on the top....yup, it went into the burn barrel. Removed some bark, and used a water hose under pressure to try to clean the outside of the log a little(get as much dirt off as possible). I really need to invest in a bark spud.......Father's Day is coming ain't it?

Then I remember....no camera! So in the house I went.

Click!

And click again!

Now if anyone ever asks....yes, she can take a full bite out of a semi-dry log that measures just under 21 inches across. There is a slight bend in the log and I needed to make a quick adjustment via Stihl!!!

This blade was dull when I started, but I really had not planned on doing anything other then some clean-up.

Close-up!

Different angle!

Now if you look closely at this photo, you'll notice a 'line' in the log, just above the pith. I made a pass with the blade set at 6-1/8" deep(just above the pith), and I have decided these will all be 10"diameter x 6"thickness bowl blanks!

Close-up after the 6" thick slab was removed? Sure, it is wood porn time!!!

Well, it's too hot for this young fella, after all it's vacation-not work time! Just before BSea took me to lunch in town, he made a pass on the under side of the pith....yielded a 1-3/4thick slab. Hopefully it'll be gone before the weekend is through?

The bottom chunk will get flipped over tomorrow(when it's cooler), and I'll make one more pass to get me some 5-1/2" thickness x 10" diameter bowl blanks.

Why that size? Ah, a 5-gallon buck is 10" round on the inside! I can rough turn them and do a DNA soak inside the 5-gallon buck!!!

Scott (thanks for looking....CODY, I know you did) B

Powermatic - something big is coming?

Beamer — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:14:06 GMT

Just got an email from Powermatic ... 20 days from now, as they say, something "Big" is coming ... wonder what that could be...

http://www.powermatic.com/

Cholla stylus/pen combo

DougB — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:02:15 GMT

Since the coffee scoop was a year late, Ms Penny asked me to also make a stylus/pen for our daughter's birthday. She opted for Cholla with crimson (NMSU school color) PR filler. I don't really like making slim sized pens with Cholla cactus, but I owed her one :laugh:

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Coffee scoop

DougB — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:56:02 GMT

This is a birthday present for my daughter (for last year :() I started it last year but did not get it done in time so it will be a full year late :(

Somehow I just now got a round tuit and completed it for her birthday this year.

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The cast coffee beans are a real pain to work with and required stabilizing and filling with CA glue, but using coffee beans for the coffee scoop seemed like a good idea (and Ms Penny told me make a coffee scoop using coffee beans. I always do what Ms Penny tells me to do...it just might take me a while :D)

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Howdy All

Terry's pens — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:08:12 GMT

Ok, I'm just another pen turning, wine stopping, pepper mill making fool I guess. I don't get to spend as much time making them as I would like because of work stuff but when I do its always a treat and relaxing time.
I hope to be able to post some pics of my work on here as soon as I figure out how.
I look forward to learning from others on here as I already have and thank you all in advance for your knowledge.

Freeware

art3427 — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:48:31 GMT

Anybody know of a shareware/freeware software for optimizing plywood or lumber?

art

Plug Cutters

deepsplinter — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:19:07 GMT

The time has come....I need to cut my own plugs.

What are some of the "look for this" and "avoid that"?

What do ya think of these?

http://www.amazon.com/CMT-Industrial.../dp/B006HIMPL6