Take some time to tune up your tools prior to starting this helps considerably when gluing multiple joints at once. Also make a consious effort to keep the pieces lined up the way they were cut and...
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Take some time to tune up your tools prior to starting this helps considerably when gluing multiple joints at once. Also make a consious effort to keep the pieces lined up the way they were cut and...
Make or buy a throat plate and start sawing to see if ya want to do much else with it.
Now. I have one of the better jigs but if you don't want to spend the $ just take a thick block of the hardest wood you have and make a L piece and drill holes squarely on the drillpress so all you...
Bob
It's been a while since I had done mine but I think I used a large spud bar or gentle taps with the sledge. There is considerable weight in the head a little hammer will have to be going pretty...
I second the white oak , but not red oak.
Chad
Why not just make them level it's not all that hard to level them up. cut a minor bevel on the edges of the transition table so as not to hang up on the edge. I would go ahead and cut miter slots...
I am working on another rental and the floors need sanded. 2 rooms were farily easy to sand. We used the drum first and then the square buff to finish them the edger was also used.
Then we got into...
Sometimes if our looking for schims and the like a old feeler gauge set works well.
I would just look in the plumbing section for something brass or go to a lock shop they have alot of brass tags...
I have about 1300 ft of it. It's softer than most of the hardwoods and the grain and color varies. Works easy and takes a finish. Remindes me of working with pine without the knots.
Sometimes when...
The floor would be hard to match it is made up of 9" tiles that are 4 pc of hardwood and are turned 90 deg. every tile.
I am looking to save what is there.
Chad
I have a rental house with oak hardwood floors.
We were sanding it and cant get the black stains out from the entry to the kitchen area.
It seem's like we usually sand some more and it...
I think I will try to make one is the hollowed part below the tines also?
Or stop it before the mount.
Chad
I was laying out a plywood cabinet back and from side to side I was getting lines that were off a strong 1/8". I grabbed another framing square and it was off the other way on the end and simular in...
Mike,
Good old motors are what I am always looking for. They may not look pretty but hey I may not be the prettiest thing around either. Every once in a while I let the smoke out of one of mine or...
Sometimes the set screws are rusted in and not really tight on the shaft.
I have pulled several off without getting them loose first.
Heat helps if you don't go crazy you shouldnt have a problem....
I have the 1033 and it had the straight head.
I changed out to the byrd head and like it.
You will need at least 5hp to make a good unit with the carbide cutters they take a little more hp.
I was...
Sean
Looks neat.
You wouldnt happen to have plan for this or rough measurements handy.
I would like to make one for the kids.
Chad
If the tool is not heavy I gust use a pair of mower wheels and a threaded rod between the legs on one side I lift the other to move it around.
If it is heavy I use old steel wheels from a floor...
Travis
When I was a kid one of the barns needed a new roll up door some of the fiber panels gave out . We just bought a few sheets of 1/4 luan w exterior glue ripped them to about 1/4" less than...
Jointer,planer,and ts get used all the time.
Chad
I think the duplication is good to some effect necessary.
I always seem to happen on to tools without a real plan.
I guess that I would just duplicate what I already have.
However I have picked up...
I have a 16" Moak I think from the late 30's.
Put a Shelix in it works pretty nice.
Not sure if I am man enough to go any larger.
It's pretty hard to push the large boards thru If you are doing a...
I would use the bandsaw then sand.
unless you are less than about 3" high the ts is pretty stable.
Chad
I generally don't use the guard but keep thinking I am going to make a good one.
I want to mount it from the celing so I can cut anything without removing it and make it easy to adjust.
I would...