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Those are great-but man are those little holes hard to see !

I need to get a magnifier for the shop.

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Thanks-didnt help the kids remote learning being high on polyurethane fumes for a few days =)

I haven't been very motivated to get down in the shop lately, though I had obtained a Wen Spindle sander to help with some holiday decorations. I sent one to my mother for Christmas, and she turns around and puts in an order for 10 more for her friends :) Just using a WWOA template and a compound cu...

1. TableSaw
2. Bandsaw
3. DrillPress/Jointer (project dependent)
4. Horizontal boring
5. Seldom router/shaper (have a separate setup for this)
6. Hardly ever sanding disks
7. Never Lathe

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Mountainbreeze -

ouch ! do you know how the finger ended up being cut on the jointer?

I carried a Surface for work for 5 years from East to West Coast every month. Very light, easily fit into a carryon-which was normally all I took on trips. It was fast enough for Office , JMP Statistics and image processing. Finally at about 4.5 years, the insta-connector for the keyboard started to...

unrelated to woodworking-but ending in bloody damage - i was training a technician in a lab how to dis-assemble an LED package with a small exacto thru a microscope. She was on the trainer scope and i was on the main doing my knife magic thru the scope zoomed way in...all of a sudden the whole view ...

Sure they are all dangerous and require proper awareness..but I find my router is the tool that puts me most on edge- no pun intended !

Its strange as I havent had any dangerous moments with it, but i use it alot less than other tools-so maybe the unfamiliarity plays into it.

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Wow Paul- thats quite a process. I'll take some pieces of it for getting my vise presentable, but perhaps not museum quality ! Thank you.

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Paul- can you list the steps you take to clean up those surfaces? Your results are great and I'd like to
give it a try myself !

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