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Just curious, I was wondering how many forum members use their SS for their one and only floor tool in their shop?

For me I found early on that I was very limited and hampered in the process of making a large project by the continued re set up of only having a SS. I was building an 18' Red Cedar stripper Canoe back in late 70's and pretty quickly started adding other floor tools to my stable. I now use it for turning and for horizontal boring and for the disc sander.

I like big projects. 5 boats so far, 2 kitchens, several home builds and remodels. 2 Hot Tubs.

I would like to hear from others.

Thanks

Tom...

Hello fellow stripper builder!!! I just finished building my 16&1/2 foot cedar strip canoe, aka A Slow Boat To Nowhere seen here http://www.shopsmith.com/news_blog/the- ... s-sunroom/ Please post photos of your projects.

The Shopsmith is my only table saw, band saw, lathe, and drill press and I love it. I do have a 6" jointer by Grizzly and a 13 planer by Dewalt. I really like the Shopsmith equipment. Sometimes it slows me down because I need to switch setups but I wouldn't be able to have equivalent tools in my shop otherwise.

Here is my latest Stripper, a Whitehall, back in 2008.

That's beautiful! How long/wide is she?

@ TomHoffman > is that a boat or canoe? Or the best of both? Hibred!!Really Nice!!!
So to the original ?, I have the luxury of space, time and $ to have stand alones and find used SS at a great price and the skills to redo them with guidance here at times. Ss jointer and China stand alone, Er dedicated DP, Delta TS, SS and Delta BS, made a Greenie into a shorty for belt sander and disk sander, An Er in rehab for a lathe, Compound Miter saw for cross and miters. Lunch box planer, 10 inch, and almost pulled the plug on a SS stand alone Pro Planer a month ago, he wants 550$ and still on CL. My wood supplier has a 48" er and a 52" Drum Sander and minamel charge for time on it. Sell Check sucks, radio show the other day even did a topic on it, Forgive me and Sister Malissa!!!

She's 21'6" LOA X 54" Beam, 3 oar positions. I made the oars as well. Octagonal, hollow-core Birds Mouth Spoon Blade oars.

ERLover wrote:@ TomHoffman > is that a boat or canoe? Or the best of both? Hibred!!Really Nice!!!
So to the original ?, I have the luxury of space, time and $ to have stand alones and find used SS at a great price and the skills to redo them with guidance here at times. Ss jointer and China stand alone, Er dedicated DP, Delta TS, SS and Delta BS, made a Greenie into a shorty for belt sander and disk sander, An Er in rehab for a lathe, Compound Miter saw for cross and miters. Lunch box planer, 10 inch, and almost pulled the plug on a SS stand alone Pro Planer a month ago, he wants 550$ and still on CL. My wood supplier has a 48" er and a 52" Drum Sander and minamel charge for time on it. Sell Check sucks, radio show the other day even did a topic on it, Forgive me and Sister Malissa!!!

The boat is a "Whitehall Pulling Boat" (Row Boat) Historic English origin, popular for light rowing on the Thames. Light fast and a joy to row...

This may be a bit "off topic" but the Shopsmith is my main power tool in the shop. The only tool that might be turned on more would be the hand held router.

dusty wrote:This may be a bit "off topic" but the Shopsmith is my main power tool in the shop. The only tool that might be turned on more would be the hand held router.

HaHaHa... Touche'... I guess it had gone down hill into a boat thread.

Any body else got brag projects post'em too...

Tom...

I have a few shopsmiths, one as a powerpro drill press, one with a Jointech system(saw train)a 520, one powerpro that is for everything else and the same functions, then I have 500 that is still up north that will be coming home this spring and a 10ER being restored. I have a few attachments for the shopsmith like the belt sander, strip sanders, jig saw, scroll saw and Jointmatic modified to fit on a shopsmith. I have the old OPR as standalone as well as another bandsaw, 4" long bed jointer, 6" jointer, several router tables, several miter saws. Not a compete list but as you can see it is mostly shopsmith concentric with some exceptions.

I no longer do any really big builds. I do have a larger project coming up and will be looking at a track saw for cutting up the panels, not that I couldn't do it on a shopsmith but I work alone mostly and I can't really handle large sheet goods anymore that way.

Ed