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Thanks for being interested Ed ! I don't know what type of wood, it was a 2x4 I had in my attic for 2 years. Some kind of pine from HomeDepot. To make the decorative edge is pretty easy. I made 2 passes on the tablesaw at the blade width and 3/4 depth (non thru cut). This skimmed the 2 edges creatin...

James is a nice guy - I've been by his place some time ago. Glad to see he is still ticking along.

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I've done a few picture frames over the years using just the miter gauge which came with my SS. As others have said, pay particular attention to getting the very closest to a 45deg as you can. For me, this is done in a few steps. 1) Bandsaw alignment (tilt and fence alignment). I use the bandsaw bec...

A great loss to this little community. Always appreciated his posts.
Condolences to those who were close to him.


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I have always been annoyed that my 4" dust collector tube requires reduction to 2" for the Shopsmith Accessories. Not that i think this is limiting the dust collection, but I didn't like needing 4" to 2" adaption . I figured I'd start with the easy one and convert the bandsaw ada...

Thank you - I was wondering if you had utilized the shopsmith bracket for the extension table (shown below).
Is there a reason you opted for an epoxy joint, perhaps the width of one jaw of the vice isn't wide enough to accommodate
these brackets?

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I like it. Looking forward to the build pics, I was wondering how you mounted the tubes to the stationary block (bottom side) .

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A lot of good things to check on here. I would first examine my jointed edge against a known straight edge. Looking for that awful thing known as snipe. If that edge is good, with the saw off, I would push against my guides, table, blade, spindle, etc to look for movement or deflection , there shoul...

Really nice platform bed !

I've been seeing these latenite commercials about Thuma platforms and considering if I want to give something similar a try .

https://www.thuma.co/products/the-bed

I have the DIY Power Pro Gen1. I like it. That said-i never used the older version with the wind up handle-so i cant really compare. Mine had the caps blow out on the main board...it went back to SS and I was down for ..hmm 4 months? Since it came back, its been running fine for about 2 years now. b