Thanks JeffD , seem like a really dumb design to me, I think you're right not anymore than the tables are off I will just leave well enough alone. I would have to fill the holds that are there now...
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Thanks JeffD , seem like a really dumb design to me, I think you're right not anymore than the tables are off I will just leave well enough alone. I would have to fill the holds that are there now...
Need help with 16" EMA jointer, Can't figure out how to adjust tables. Hoping someone out there has done this. Each table has two cams that are held in place with set screw. remove set screw and cams...
Before I start chiseling away the waste I sharpen a few chisels-one of the chisels I'm going to use has a little chip off the corner of the edge,I've been planning on grinding it for awhile - also...
Sawing the tails-
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To lay out the angled dovetails I first set this square the thickness of the stock-I make it just a little proud,just a little-then mark the shoulders of the tails-...
To cut the side pieces of the frames I have to know the angles-I clamp the end pieces in place on the legs set a bevel then transfer to the wooden extension on my #2 table saw-the top frame will have...
It's been awhile since I posted,I'm working on the frames,there are two,top and bottom - the corners will be dovetailed with angle dovetails the cross pieces will be sliding dovetails-...
The other night I was watching TV flipping through the channels and came across this magic show-they were doing that trick where the guy gets out of a locked wooden box-it's an old Houdini trick -...
To marry success you have to climb in the back seat a time or two with failure-
alex
Ok just a quick background - I started making furniture in 1973-self taught-in 1978 I put my first real shop together, much like what I have now only different wood and different machines--didn't get...
If you turn around from the planer to the back of the shop in the middle is the big work table, that's over the pit,the table is 7ft.x5ft. with a vise on one corner,-...
Yes matter of fact I do have a desire for dust collection-she should be fairly attractive forty something and beside the dust collection she should like to sand.
alex
What clutter? Heck I cleaned up before I started this.
rounding off the sharp corners-
alex
Across from the drill press in the middle of the shop and facing the front are the planer and the big jointer-the big jointer is a 16" 4 knife Italian job ,I'm not real fond of this machine and would...
The big band saw was painted by my daughter Christian;she owed me some money at the time so I asked her to paint my band saw to work off the debt ,told her to paint green vines and trees then left...
If you turn from the work bench the #2 table saw is right there,along with the little jointer it's like they're part of the bench;just behind the saw is the saw caddy-...
starting again from the front of the shop-left of the band saws down the west wall-first is the sharpening bench-I use mostly water stones these days-I really like good Arkansas stones -just don't...
my red-necked rigged mortiser-the trouble with all horizontal mortisers is the work is next to you and the bit is on the other side so you have to bend over to see what's happening-so I turned this...
The ground floor on the east side was the parking garage,after the hotel closed in 1968 it became a boxing gym-now it's my shop-it's 30ft. wide,60ft. long and has 14ft. ceilings,there is a cinder...
Someone asked on another post if I would post pictures of my shop-The One Eleven Store-http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x162/alexonetwoone/shop%20tour/TEXAS1060.jpg
I bought this old building...
OK---about the stones,they don't do nothing,just set there--moving them out of the way has become second nature after this much time--an old Apache out in New Mexico told to take special stone (these...
Dan- when I get time I'll post pictures of my place-
alex
cutting the coves-I use this CMT 6" six knife cove blade-
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the set-up is a fence at 45 degree to the blade-before...
after I make the real size drawings I make a cut list and go into the wood room and find the wood for all the parts-...
I'm going to back up a bit and show part of how I make a piece--I draw a real size drawing usually on a piece of 1/4" ply-wood--so after I had glued the top up and was sure of the real size I drew...