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I live here in CT. and it has been snowing since 7:30 am and it isn't letting up at all. Must have at least 15+ inches on the ground and it is coming down at 2-3 inches an hour. I know many of you probably live where this is common but we don't get this stuff all that often and I can tell you that s...

Very nice job on the restore. It is very satisfying bringing old machines back to life isn't it? Not just Shopsmith's but any older machine that you can acquire and refurbish is usually worth the effort. I recently picked up an old Rockwell drill press to have as a stand alone as pulling out the Sho...

So I needed to get me some solid surface material and MDF to make a new top for my router table I made last spring as the Corian I used is dished in the middle and cannot be flattened easily. I was looking around on Craigslist and found a guy getting rid of some Wilsonart for free. He had a custom c...

So it is that time of year to get back in the shop regularly and do some saw dust making. I recently gave my wife a Dexter Cleaver for her birthday as she didn't have one and watching her cut up chicken for the dogs was driving me crazy. I looked around the net for cleavers and found a review by a m...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8330/8139401871_9385cea5f3_b.jpg Our very good friend lives in the prominent house with the cedar shake shingles in the middle left part of the frame here. He has a beautiful Powermatic woodshop in the bottom floor of this house and it looks as though he did not suffer...

Well been a while since I have posted here. I look in every now and then but have been a bit busy with other things in life lately. I live right on a salt pond and less than a half mile from the beach in Milford CT. and we got walloped but good. My wife and I were very lucky and were spared from the...

And once again Bill you have hit it out of the park. I totally forgot about the eccentric issue now it makes sense why there is a need for the offset mounting tubes. Now i feel better about the whole thing but it is still a pain when you don't have extras of the accessories like offset tubes to make...

Thanks Wa2crk. I knew there was a better way to adjust and set the SPT then how I was doing it. The thing is to have multiple sets of the offset tubes I guess. Still wonder why they didn't engineer the SPT's to line up to the drive hub horizontally right from the start? Just seems like something tha...

So yesterday I am in the process of building a new router table from plans I bought on Plansnow.com. My new to me Grizzly bandsaw is giving me fits because the blade guides need to be replaced with something better engineered than the OEM guides. So I decide to mount my bandsaw on the Mark V. This b...

Just thought I would share this. I got an email from the SSUsers group that I am sure some of you are members of and there is a guy on there who is building a belt sander to retrofit to his Shopsmith. It looks pretty cool and thought some of you would find it interesting. He builds guitars I guess a...