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Here's the update. Went to UPS today. Shipped my headstock to Shopsmith for PowerPro upgrade. Insured my headstock for $1200 (could have done more, could have done less). I used a box I had received several years ago from Shopsmith. So, it had packaging materials, etc. Package will arrive in Dayton ...

I am confused: I can ship a headstock via UPS to Dayton for about $60. I will pay Shopsmith at least $90 to return it via Fedex.

I have made about a dozen end grain cutting boards using various combinations of red oak, white oak, cherry, hard maple, and black walnut. I've never had any issues with red oak by the way when going end grain. Each was finished with 3-4 coats of salad bowl finish.

I've had mine for two years and really like it. It makes the operations of moving the headstock into drill press mode and back very easy. So far, I've had no problems with mechanical integrity; it seems quite durable.

I've made most of our bedroom furniture with cabinet grade red oak plywood and red oak lumber. I've attached all the face frames with nothing more than glue--no nails, screws, or bicsuits. My internal construction of shelves and/or dust panels glued into dados in the sides of the cases reduces the n...

I made a king size headboard this past summer. I opted to use a hand-held router and used mortise and tenon joints. My stiles were 4 in. square oak (mortises), and the rails were 2 in. x 4 in. oak (tenons). I made a small jig to center the mortises in the stiles and made about four or five passes wi...

Thanks to everyone who commented. I think I have more than enough ideas to consider and try out.

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I made a clothes hamper in January with panels about 18" wide. None was square using the cross cut sliding table due to the play in the miter bar. Fortunately, I was able to hide these problems with trim. I'm now going to undertake a large bedroom furniture ...

I was curious if anyone has tried making a cross cut table (or panel cutting sled) with the fence at the outfeed end rather than on the infeed end. I have the SS sliding cross cut table and like it. Unfortunately as panels width increases, there is less miter bar in the track. This results in too mu...

Doc,

I can't agree with you more. Sometimes, however, money's not worth the paper it's printed on.