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This week we will read the chapter on Belt Sanding. You can locate it at:
http://www.shopsmith.com/academy/beltsand/index.htm

I hope all that started this reading with us are still with us. If you are a few chapters behind please take a few minutes extra time this week and catch up.

Depending on how things go I'd like to make the jig shown in figure 19-25 sometime this summer. Some how I never got around to making one over all these years. (This and the jig saw were my only major extra tools for the shopsmith for a lot of years.)

Ed

When I was making the Jelly bean box for my daughter I used the belt sander to chamfer the edge of the lid. Making chamfers with the belt sander is easy and fast! Alec

easterngray wrote:When I was making the Jelly bean box for my daughter I used the belt sander to chamfer the edge of the lid. Making chamfers with the belt sander is easy and fast! Alec

Indeed; If not TOO fast!:eek:

Yes, as many of us, I have used the belt sander in all of the configurations shown. I find it to be a wonderful machine. I even use it to sharpen lathe tools

I've also sanded several of my finger tips at different times. My gosh! this machine can be dangerous if one is not careful.