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many thanks for referencing the article on my website on the beginnings of shopsmith.

i invite you to also look at this page -- link below -- about r j decristoforo, but also related to the...

With great success, I use spiral end mills from boeing surplus in my shaper and my horizontal mortiser. Both of these machines are reversible.

Have never used them in a router, but I think that...

http://www.owwm.com/mfgIndex/detail.aspx?id=808&tab=3

dan, check the page linked above. (it leads to old walker turner manuals in pdf, that are downloadable.) if you don't know about owwm.com,...

I have a 5 hp 60 gal used air compressor, a reconditioned Dayton, and although I have not tried hvlp yet (i have everything), i will say that the investment pays for itself soon.

(i am retired,...

Let me add my bandsaw-centered shop as another example of the little-noticed importance of the bandsaw as a tool for woodworking:...

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this is the william and mary armoire that i constructed out of old growth douglas fir. when i made it...

Ben, good question. I too have often asked myself that same question. Wonder whether it has been asked over at woodnet, the discourse board sponsored by august home, owner of SN?

george, this is getting ridiculous. we're having a private conversation in public

am it correct? you changed the shape of the spindles? anyway that is how i interpret it

forgive me for asking one last question: where do your morris chair plans come from? where are they published?

george, i saved your jpg and happy to say that I plan leather covered cushions too

thong, keith rucker, webmaster for www.owwm.com, is writing a history of crescent machine, and probably would be happy to talk with you. he has reconditioned several crescent bandsaws.

george, sorry for the confusion. i did see that image, but on my screen, i can't see the upper part, where the large arm and slanting back is exposed.

i would like to see the arm in relation to...

george please post a side-profile shot of the morris chair

george, what i have in mind for a design is the one on p 63 of lang's shop drawings for craftsman furniture, published in 2001. you'll note the straight/flat arms. i will change the spindles on the...

I too use the blue tape.

I will be laminating qswo slices to each of the four leg sides, and am going to try the same laminating thing on the large arms, providing the lamination is not too...

George, your methods look great and success is a "feel good". While I have no images, I created a jig for my robland x31 sliding table that has similar specs -- if you can imagine transitioning...

Maybe you can get some examples here. My setup is for my laguna 18 incher, but you might be able to incorporate some of its features on a 14 incher. My set up has become the center of my shop -- I...

Matthew, your $1500-2000 figure is in the ballpark, according to fw annual issue, winter 2007, pp 86+.

the article covers specs to look for, but makes no recommendations for models to buy.

if...

i would add that using your shaper to drive router bits makes a lot of sense, if you're using the larger bits for making raised panels.

for routers, those big bits are only operated safely in a...

i have a shaper/router combo created out of a 1930s-vintage delta bench top shaper. for power, i use a 2-hp baldor reversible motor, and for driving the spindle(s), i use a 2-step pulley. the pulley...

Jim's mention of the FW (feb 2008) article on michael fortune dimensioning wood on the bandsaw, jointer and so on, prompts my response

i have a laguna 18 incher that i have adapted, by creating a...

i own a robland x31, a 5 unit combo that includes a sliding table mechanism. while it has its limits, i like it for certain things.

one of its limits is the distance of the sliding table from the...