A Tribute to a Year of Shopsmith Ownership

[dusty]

+1000!!
No gloves. No Jewelry. Long hair tied up...not just back. All long sleeve cuffs buttoned.

I agree - somewhat. No gloves for me but not for safety reasons. I just cannot work with gloves on. I don't even wear gloves when I am working in the yard with all the cactus.

Long sleeves. Well, sometimes I am guilty there. I wear sweat shirts in the shop during the winter months if the shop temperature drops into the fifties or below.:)

Long hair is not an issue for me.

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I've gotta a couple hair cuts since this picture was taken. The hair is even shorter now - like #2 except the sides which are shorter..

[dstensland]

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Why the gloves? Not recommended!

You're right and we understand the reasons. At the time, they made him feel safer. I made a judgement call and watched him closely.

I scanned through my photo collection to confirm this statement: That was the last day he wore gloves while using woodworking tools. Ever since the only gloves he has used at the machine are latex gloves for finishing operations.

[dstensland]

... Long hair is not an issue for me... I've gotta a couple hair cuts since this picture was taken. The hair is even shorter now - like #2 except the sides which are shorter..

My hair is shorter than yours. Here's a pic of me and the boy working on a lumber cart last summer. This was the first time we tried the Shopsmith table saw on plywood. It was a pleasure to use. My previous table saw was a Dewalt DW744. I think the larger table (depth and width) on the Shopsmith 510 trumps the rack and pinion fence on my Dewalt DW744, which hasn't been used in over a year.

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Here's the cart after it was assembled. It's not very pretty but it was fun to build. It serves its purpose.

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Since I'm responding to you, Dusty, here's a photo of the Crafter's Station in bandsaw mode. You and others on this forum helped walk me through the fix to make it purr again. Thanks!

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[dstensland]

Last December, during a flurry of pre-Christmas activity, I ran out of space on my workbench. That's when I realized that I had a ready-made workbench in the form of Shopsmith. In this mode I used the table area for simple glue-ups and was still still able to use the headstock as a drum sander. The way my Shopsmith can be reconfigured as needed continually impresses me.

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[BuckeyeDennis]

Last December, during a flurry of pre-Christmas activity, I ran out of space on my workbench. That's when I realized that I had a ready-made workbench in the form of Shopsmith. In this mode I used the table area for simple glue-ups and was still still able to use the headstock as a drum sander. The way my Shopsmith can be reconfigured as needed continually impresses me.

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"Limited only by your imagination," they say. Thank you for stretching mine!

[JPG]

Finally a good use for 5' tubes.

["Wild Bad Bob"]

"Why the gloves? Not recommended!"
I TOTALLY DISAGREE!!!
I have been working with power tools all my life in my occupations, both hand and stationary. As a construction worker/owner, I was hands on, a good pair of fitted gloves with no loose wrist gauntlets have saved me a few times, the few times I have cut myself or a drill driver slipped off a screw head and a Phillips bit "drilled" into my thumb was when I had no gloves on. I still remember that one! You will feel that "blade" on the glove B4 it hits the skin. The newer synthetic elasticized material of gloves fit like a second skin.
LOOSE things can get caught in a rotating piece of machinery, gloves are not "loose". There is a YouTube video out there where a guy tries to get a shirt sleeve caught into a table saw blade, cant, wont even grab on to it do to the moving air of the blade spinning keeps blowing it away. Yes there are the exceptions to everything. Actually I was happy when I saw him wearing gloves.
BTW, handsome young man, and looks allot like his father. I Am glad they are not sitting on a computer and or playing video games all day. Learning true values from mom and dad. Be proud of them and yourselves as parents.

["Wild Bad Bob"]

BTW, Slaterville Springs NY, Finger Lake country, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!

[JPG]

"Why the gloves? Not recommended!"

I did not say do not do it EVER!:D


How ya gonna get callouses by wearing gloves?:rolleyes:

["Wild Bad Bob"]

Thats the point!!! You got it JPG!!! Dont need callouses to be a man or worker!!!