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Hi All New With A Shopsmith. I Just Turned A Bowl And When I Tried My Next Project, The Left End(sorry Dont Know The Correct Term) Keeps Ripping Loose. I Have Tried More And Less Pressure But Nothing Helps. The Wood Was Heart Pine. I Then Tried To Turn A 2x2 Soft Pine I Had Started As Pratice. It D...

You could attach the rails to piece of wood the width of the SS table and using some ply and your 510 fence make a really nice router table and fence. I have been playing around with an old 510 table, grinding away metal to allow me to mount my router to the bottom of the table and I have fashioned ...

Ok there is only one more thing (besides finishing) to do on our armoire. Its making a raised panel door. I have cut raised panels on other table saws but not on my shopsmith. Is there a plan or picture of a jig on shopsmith that rides on the fence? I know Ed I could buy a rail and style bit set bu...

Ed, friction may very well be the problem. BTW, I was doing a ripping operation with my rip fence. Your thoughts on the following: I checked the alignment of the blade with a dial indicator guage-with the infeed side of the blade set to zero, the outfeed side was +.003, or tilting right by that amo...

What is wrong with face glueing 4/4, 5/4 or 8/4 boards together? If your reasonably close with you grain color match as your glueing no one will ever see the glue unless you point it out. Buy birch, popular, maple that doesn't have a heavy grain pattern, as you pick the wood pay attention to edge gr...

I bought a 50 tooth Freud blade for making fine sharp cuts on birch plywood. After the 3rd cut, I got burned or black marks only on the waste side of the blade and on the plywood. The good side had no burn marks. Can someone explain why? Burning comes from friction and if everything is set up corre...

Thanks guys, I value your input and suggestions. I think the router with a clamped guide would be the way to go. A router mounted in a table would also be good, if I could come up with a fence that I could set several inches from the bit to rout repetitive cuts. I made a portable router table that ...

My favorite blade is my porter cable razor varible toothed blade. It has cut everything I have put through it without a problem. I have cut oak, elm, maple, pine and all kinds of plywood with it and it still isn't burning. I used to use a freud narrow kerf and it was good but didn't hold up. I have...

I fought with enough Dado setups to know a Router is the only way to go. Today's routers and bits specially made for the undersize plywood cutting a dado is a one step process, safe and easy. Interestingly in Europe because of safety concerns you can't buy a tablesaw with an arbor long enough to mou...

RDEWinter Sorry but I have to go with Dusty on this, I don't think anyone can really answer that question. Short of some kind of magazine blade test (which I think we all agree usually favors the manufactures that advertise) there is no one that could have tested all the latest blades of each manufa...