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A lot of labor but a terrific result! Old furniture often has very good wood in them - makes them worth refinishing. Looks like you kept the patina. Good. Never sand the old patina off. Steel wool better than sandpaper for such work. Bentwood was widely used in furniture. I wonder how it could be re...

Has anyone tried "Jubilee" on a Shopsmith?? I haven't, yet. I am ready to run out of JPW, so I will be shopping for a new can soon (the can I have now came from Home Depot - still available??). Anyway, Jubilee was an SC Johnson product from wayback when housewives actually polished refrige...

504196 Item 73 Spring, function is an anti-vibration device, supposed to put a drag on the speed dial to keep speed from drifting during operation. I would classify it as a sort-of safety component but in fact the (headstock) will run without it. I have not tried to run the (headstock) without one. ...

I don't like that new "corporate slogan" at all. I really don't.

Resorting to profanity to get attention belongs in a locker room not on a tee shirt. Shows quite a lack of imagination.

What sort of corporate decisions can we next expect?

Even more off-topic, but some additional informed input. I hold two U.S. utility patents, both essentially worthless, and I wrote them myself, with no lawyer-help and thus cheaply. They were each approved by the Office with no objections. People, and especially inventors, have very wrong ideas about...

So now I notice that lewparsell said "This is a new 2020 machine from ShopSmith" and thus those 2 washers came from the factory, and no prior owner. But sure enough the PP parts list says item 53 and not those 2 washers he has. Mystery continues. I guess we can't blame this one on prior ow...

1 of those 2 non-stock washers shown in one of the pictures looks like a Belleville. Maybe prior owner tried to substitute it for item 53 spherical (domed) washer. Item 53 works something like a Belleville but is shaped differently and not "conical" like a real Belleville. Bellevilles are ...

Interesting video, and company. Thanks for posting. Good to see American manufacturing happening, and I assume, profitably. So if this company and others in America can profitably make high-end hand woodwork tools, what does this say about the population and budget of American home-based woodworkers...

On my recent project to mount a cyclone onto an upright push vacuum, I "just assumed" that the cyclone had to be mounted vertical because otherwise gravity would pull the vortex off-center and screw up the flow. Guess I'm wrong again. But try running a topload washing machine sideways and ...

Here you go. Lathe project. Press-fit onto the current dial (the red part). DIAL KNOB 1.JPG Make it out of clear acrylic to minimize hiding the speed letters. I do agree with the others that more leverage on the dial is not the best thing - unless the dial itself is beefed up with a pressed-in steel...