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I just saw a shallow dish made with irregularly shaped wood from a winery on lumberjocks. The guy used tools I've never heard of to make it. He roughed it out with an 'arbortech' or a makita curved shoe planer and then used a grinder to smooth it out. There were also some square bowls on lumberjocks ...

Nick, I appreciate your response to this post. I bought my shopsmith used and found it was missing upper and lower saw guards. Everytime I walk by I feel sad and frustrated because I have this awesome machine that I'm afraid to use because the guards are on backorder. I suppose I could skip the ...

Berry: I haven't found left-handed tools to be readily available. The most problematic has been the circular saw - I can honestly say that I've owned mine for 20 years and have only recently used it with confidence. All the safety guards are keyed for holding the saw in the right hand, when I pick ...

Hi! I'm new to this forum and woodworking, just acquired a used Shopsmith and just completed a basic woodworking course at the local technical high school. I took the woodworking course because I was sick of asking friends to cut boards and fix things for me - I didn't think I wanted to make ...