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I wanted one of those for years and I bought one at a friends yard sale cheap maybe 25 years ago. It looks good on the shelf and I have every intention of using it someday...


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While I have not studied this concept I assume (always dangerous) that using it would preclude using things like molding heads, wobble dado cutters and other misc. attachments? For over half a dozen decades my safety choice has been to avoid sticking my fingers into the saw blade... I understand tha...

I love the concept and I used to have a modified student desk in the farm shop that I used for detail work like carburetor repairing / rebuilding and other detail work. I need to make something smaller to do that again. What I had just used too much real estate. :rolleyes: The work space designs sho...

My main table saw (Ridgid TS-3650 with wings) Is this minute sitting there in its carefully chosen home has so much stuff sitting on it that if I had a bottle of water in my hand I might have to turn around a couple of times to find a place to sit it down. :rolleyes: That is actually a bad example b...

Managed to get 2 six foot circles cleared of crap that never should have been where it was in the woodshop. Makes me feel like I now need to hold a square dance. :D I'll clear 2 more tomorrow and I still won't have moved any of the stuff I spoke of moving in the first post. :rolleyes: This afternoon...

This is a bit long... While many would think that my 1,500 sq. ft. basement wood shop is large it has gotten so full that I am down to several narrow paths through it. Just too many interest in one place, too much stuff. :eek: :rolleyes: Sadly my 36' x 50' farm shop (mechanics, metal working, weldin...

A few may recall from earlier discussions that I became a computer geek (OK, I don''t recall us ever using that term back then :D ) back through the last half of the 1960's. The big advantage then was that there were only about 40 things you had to learn to know more than everybody else. :) One of t...

The first tool to buy is a good first aid kit... :eek: :D Everything else pretty much stops without a hammer. I have a few... Wood is kind useless unless you can make it into smaller pieces which calls for a saw of some kind. Then a plane and, and, and... From that point on there can be no stopping....

Welcome. One of the early things that you will notice about this group is the level of knowledge and willingness to help. The second thing you will notice will be how many of us will blow up your pictures and study your shop area down to the tiniest details including reading the labels on containers...

I was watching several U-Tube videos today about converting regular fluorescent lights to LEDs. There must be a hundred options... I have chosen "Ballast Bypass" bulbs but even there options abound. What was funny was that many videos were made by woodworkers and I watched about 6 of them....