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I particularly like the way you use the hammer to stop the Orson Scott Card paperbacks from crawling away... :p

that's the trick. I shall peruse the shop-which-must-not-be-named (but rhymes with Cunning) this morning.

As it turns out, further consideration has led me to decide to get a bench-mount model...

Ok, dumb question, because I need to be making a purchase in a few days. If I buy a pedestal drill that is designed to bolt to the floor, rather than a bench, how do i bolt it to the floor?

This...

Let me be the first to say... bah, humbug.... :mad:

Very nice hinges - are you able to make more? I would have a definite interest in being able to source some hinges like that from time to time...

This may be completely obvious, but even in England, with two CPUs etc in one box, the interior of the box will get very hot, particularly if it's solid wood, thick ply or MDF. Whatever design you...

Some boxes I've recently made, for this christmas. The whitish wood was silver maple, the reddish wood is new guinea rosewood (and the mdf base for the drawer will remainly discreetly un-described). ...

This technique of using iron filings or steel wool in weak acid as a dye is very commonly known by people who work with leather for medieval reproduction purposes - it is a very, very, very old...

Yep, which is why I'm here pretty well daily, reading, and always getting good advice and inspiration.

Second that. I'd bee looking for folk who are able and willing to share knowledge around, and not look down their noses because I've not spent the last thirty years hand-cutting the first dovetail...

I'm lucky in one way... my wife is a physiotherapist :)

Thanks for all the good wishes, the back is back to normal, and sawdust is being made. And I have to say, the 17" CE from carbatec is fantastic. Works just as it ought to, and safety features out the...

also, you might like to look around for plans for cider presses, or even possibly cider presses in the agricultural market. I looked into this a few years ago, with a view to making my own cider, and...

Ah me. After the TaxMan was nice to me, I went out last Thursday and bought one of the 17" CE Carbatec bandsaws. Friday afternoon, a very helpful courier helped me to lift it from his Ute. Saturday,...

Ooops. Missed that one. On the other hand, they've got the Delta's over there as well :)

Looks a lot like the Delta 10" contractors, which you can get from carbatec. similar price. I got the delta recently, and am very happy with it.

Your a sucker for the sales pitch - but then again, so was I. My good lady wife grabbed one of the Bench Pro 2000 for me earlier this year, and so far it's proven to be excellent for a specific sort...

Whoah! Excellent summary!

Ouch! Just fell off my chair... it's been a looooong week.

Oops. Didn't enable the "sympathetic sarcasm switch". Hmm. Guess my job...

:eek: That's a brave thing to admit in a public forum :D

Those are on my comparison list as well. Have you any comments you'd like to share regarding the Delta contractor saw? Good points, bad point, reasons to cuddle it, reasons to curse it?

Thank you. Since it was going to be a menu I thought "why not make it a menu..."

Had a look at the Hafco 10" contractors saw today, and it seemed pretty good. In Brisbane the salesbody said they'd have stock in on 20th October. They didn't have any of the sliding-table version on...

Sounds like at least two of us in Bris thinking along the same lines. The Hafco one certainly looks good, I hope to have a proper look at one this week.

Ah, yes, i guessed that much, but from which manufacturer/supplier? The source of all good things (aka google) failed me on that...

eh? a tsc12hb is a what?

Inquiring minds want to know... what were the issues, and what joy has your friend had out of it?

wondering that myself, I found this

http://home.howstuffworks.com/question338.htm

and some posts on this forum as well which suggest that the CT-250 would be as noisy as a triton, because it's...

I kicked the tyres on the Carbatec 10" tablesaw listed in the catalog as CT-250 (p52 of 2004 catalog). I was pleasantly suprised at the apparent quality of the unit, from my limited understanding of...

Thanks for all the feedback on that. It sounds like the consensus is that it can be done, but it's an awful lot of effort. I might just put the stone aside as a keepsake, and go down the scary-sharp...

I have an old oilstone that was my dad's. It may have been his dad's. Anyway, the problem is that it is badly dished, to the extent that it can no longer really be used for sharpening.

Is there a...

I didn't initially notice he was doing that, since I automatically do it myself! In my case it was because my dad was a chippie from days of yore, and he taught me a lot of what I know (I just wish...

On a somewhat related note: medieval shields were apparently, generally, made from plyed wood. The simple "heater" shield shape that most folk are aware of has a shallow curve horizontally. I can see...

On the other hand...

Wearing the right safety gear can help a lot. Many moons ago I was drilling through a piece of round aluminium rod on a drill press. The rod twisted, the bit shattered, and I...

While it seems as though parttimers are more prone to accidents, it happens to professionals too. I think the difference may be that amateurs lose concentration and get distracted more easily.
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Whoah! More information than i can pull a spokeshave over! Thanks for all of that, ladies and gents!

Well that's certainly food for thought. The price of bandsaws seems quite reasonable for semi-decent ones.

They've always terrified me though, as they strike me as inherently more dangerous than...

A few weeks ago I asked some silly questions about table saws versus contractors saws versus panel saws. I got valuable feedback and sensible answers to my silly questions from this forum. I followed...

That's an intriguing comment - tell us more...

Seriously, that's one saw that caught my eye (my catalogue arrived yesterday), and I hope to have a look at them at the WWW show this weekend.

From this thread, and a lot of other reading, I'm starting to think that buying a table saw would be a better option than buying the triton workcenter/triton saw combo, since I need a table saw more...

and here I was thinking it was glue for joining Cascamites. :D

Thanks to all for their advice. I was aware of Lazarides, but not the others. I may even try my local hardware places and bunnings and say "tasmanian oak", in the hope that somebody knows what I'm...

As some of you may have seen over in the Router forum, I'm new(ish) to all this doing-stuff-with-wood-stuff, despite my father having been a very fine carpenter and cabinet maker. Over the next few...

Thanks for all the prompt replys. As soon as I saw them I did the whole "smack forehead and say d'oh" thing - I will certainly try scoring before cross cuts next time.

For what it's worth, I was...

I'm very (very (very)) new to using a router, but have big plans. I've recently bought a decent router (a triton one, and the rest of the orange bits will arrive over the year). Today I sat down to...