Create a review for a woodworking tool that you are familiar with (Shopsmith brand or Non-Shopsmith) or just post your opinion on a specific tool. Head to head comparisons welcome too.
I needed a third sawhorse yesterday and was barely able to get to the first two. All of them were buried in the "moving stuff" shuffle. I looked around and spotted a Laptop stand that I was not using and shoved it under the 100 pound sheet of plywood I was cutting (a story for another post) and it worked fine.
The stand looked much like this one:
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I also used a couple of my favorite tools Saturday. I had to move a heavy old bookcase (6' wide x 20" deep x 7' tall) from the shop to the house. My son helped me move it and it was greatly simplified by using my 2 yard sale skateboards. I move all manner of stuff with one or two of those. One is maybe28"long but the little one is only about 18" long. I had it laying upside down on a table and as I looked at it I said Hmmmmm... i see other possibilities there.
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farmer
Francis Robinson
I did not equip with Shopsmiths in spite of the setups but because of them.
1 1988 - Mark V 510 (bought new), 4 Poly vee 1 1/8th HP Mark V's, Mark VII, 1 Mark V Mini, 1 Frankensmith, 1 10-ER, 1 Mark V Push-me-Pull-me Drillpress, SS bandsaw, belt sander, jointer, jigsaw, shaper attach, mortising attach, TS-3650 Rigid tablesaw, RAS, 6" long bed jointer, Foley/Belsaw Planer/molder/ripsaw, 1" sander, oscillating spindle/belt sander, Scroll saw, Woodmizer sawmill
There is a time and place for both roller and ball bearing stands. I've become a fan of Rockler's Heavy Duty Flip Top stand (their #43399). This stand can be either a roller or ball bearing. It is perhaps the heaviest stand on the market, it doesn't fall over like so many lighter stands.
With an accurate straightedge I can zero in the roller "flat on" with the outfeed side of the jointer, extending the ability of the jointer to edge long boards.
I now have several of these stands, look for Rockler's sales and specials that occur frequently.
I don't have any bearing-type stands (yet) but can recommend the Rockler stands as being super sturdy and almost impossible to tip over when using them as infeed/outfeed tables even when cutting large ply sheets. When I started buying them many years ago the bearing-type were not sold. Another advantage is they have rotatable rubber bushing on each leg that can be used to level the stand to an uneven garage floor.
Forrest
Forrest
Huntington Beach, CA
1985 500->510->520, bandsaw, jointer, planer, PowerPro, double-tilt, 3" casters,(now obsolete) speed increaser
