Shopsmith Forums

In the past, I've always used dowels to join boards. I'm now considering a biscuit joiner. It appears SS has a smokin' deal for their biscuit joiner for Father's Day. The question I have is this: will having the biscuit joiner restricted by being required to be attached to the SS as opposed to being...

Down near the bottom of the box of 'stuff' I acquired with the pre-owned Mark V and bandsaw, were two coiled bandsaw blades that had seen better days a long time ago. To say they are rusty might be sugar-coating the facts. My questions are: 1) is there a way to clean up the blades? 2) how would one ...

I cannot begin to tell you guys how much I appreciate your quick response to my note. I knew someone with a Shopsmith must have some ancient/dusty past issues of Hands On. Now I can begin my next project. The original one that I had turned out to be very functional. Plus, it kept a myraid number of ...

This request would be directed to those of you who have had a Shopsmith since the late '70s. I bought my first one in '77 and somewhere along the line I came across a plan for an enclosed unit that hung from the lower way tubes. The end of the unit had two ears (with rounded ends) on the top that sp...