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ERLover wrote:John,
I called SS to see if the old policy of souses attending free still applied.
Nothing better then a spouse who is soused!!!!!LOL

What the heck does that mean

I have often read that the center line of your lathe should be the same height as your elbow is from the floor. What does my elbow have to do with your lathe height? ;) I am certainly not an experienced turner so this may be incorrect. I think you want your fore arm that holds the tool to be parall...

... Second, I'm not router savvy enough to follow all of this. Why do you think the first router bit broke? And why would a 1/4 inch shank, 1/2 inch diameter bit do better in the higher RPMs of the OPR than in the PP at lower RPMs? Intuitively, I would have thought the opposite, but again, I'm a ro...

Is that a PowerPro cardboard box tucked underneath there? ;) Chris Yes :D :D :D Look back through the thread and you will see it. It was a new full up head stock that I bought a Lowe's just before Christmas in 2010 (I think maybe 2011). The demonstrator was Dave Folkerth. We had a good time talking...

I checked my jointer and it would not go past about 3/16. That's enough for my purposes since I've never cut rabbets with my jointer. But I couldn't just leave it in that condition. I disassembled it to check the machined runners for gunk. As the photo shows they weren't gunky, but one of them look...

Sometimes I think the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing. In any case, SS needs to communicate better internally. I agree. When I got the email about the SS Traveling Academy at the beginning of November I called SS to see if the old policy of souses attending free still applied. Gail k...

I forgot to mention, When lauding the capabilities of the Mark V, the reason I decided on using the OPR. The 1/2" mortises in the stretchers and legs were started, at first, with a 1/2" straight bit (W/half inch shank) secured in a Shopsmith router arbor, on the spindle of the PowerPro. A...

I checked my jointer and it would not go past about 3/16. That's enough for my purposes since I've never cut rabbets with my jointer. But I couldn't just leave it in that condition. I disassembled it to check the machined runners for gunk. As the photo shows they weren't gunky, but one of them look...

Sometimes I think the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing. In any case, SS needs to communicate better internally. I agree. When I got the email about the SS Traveling Academy at the beginning of November I called SS to see if the old policy of souses attending free still applied. Gail k...

Very cool Al. As I said before, I would love to paddle that canoe!