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I am a young guy (still south of 30 for a couple more months), but I know that many of my interests are more "mature" than many of the people that I know that are my age. One thing I have come to realize in getting into this hobby is that there are a number of factors which fight against it from a ...

First off all you guys out there who say you open up your shop to people and neighbors what not, any of you guys live in san diego ? Lord knows i could use some guidance on how to turn and fully utilize my greenie. Secondly i may be one of the younger extremes on the forum being only 29 But i did go ...

judaspre1982 wrote:Wood Porn:p

now thats funny !

that is just so cool man , i love homemade tools , i plan one of these days one i get the idea out of my head and onto paper making a mortising attachment for the horizontal boring option. again awesome !

beeg wrote:It appears that they do still have em for sale.

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/itemfind.htm?item=501467&Submit=Find+Item

I must not have looked hard enough . but then again how much is shipping ? more than the spring ?

Item 259
http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/partscat/mitergaugeexpview.htm

does shop smith still sell this part or does anybody know where i could find a replacement spring ? i too am in the middle of buffing out everything that came with my mk 5 and it's starting to look pretty good . i would ...

Hi Bikermike,
That twist wasn't done on the lathe at all. It's more of a carving technique I guess.
What I did after I rounded the post with a belt sander was to mark up a grid of rectangles around the post. Then I drew a diagonal line connecting the corners of some of the rectangles, continuing ...

I finished this mail box post about a year ago and thought to post it here. Don't know why I didn't think to post it earlier.
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Also, just recently a friend asked me to replace two water damaged cabinets in her kitchen. She is financially challenged, so couldn't replace more ...

im 29 years old just picked up a shopsmith last week off of craigs list. In the middle of buffing out the tables and what not so that stock will glide easily. ill let you guys know howi like it.