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looks good, does it handle rebated and half-blind dovetail joints or just butt joints?

benchdog

if butt joints were good enough, they never would have invented the dovetail joint, would they? admittedly modern adhesives are vastly superior to the hide glues that were in vogue when the dovetail...

go to bunnings with a tape measure and a notebook, you can even usually persuade one of the red-shirters to hold the other end of the tape measure for you

ok what will sharpen:
planer/thicknesser blades,
jointer blades
chisels
plane blades
chainsaw blades
knives
secateurs
circular saw blades,
router bits

back to the original question, i grow a beard from time to time and i have no problem with the triton respirator with the beard or without the beard, makes no difference. as for using it with...

i finally found time to build a "sturdee cyclone bucket" last weekend. I tested it out cutting and routing some silky oak for a box i am making. i was very pleased with the performance of the cyclone...

exactly right Tiger, i saw the wasp sander at the www show last year and my initial thought was that the morse taper and chuck on a drill press are made to withstand vertical pressure, not the...

i currently keep sheets in a pizza box, but when i build my downdraft sanding table i will build into it some sort of storage system, currently deciding between a pigeon hole style or a filing...

in practice, you still have to be careful even with the same timber seasoned for the same amount of time, let alone dissimilar timbers. the stock is most likely to shrink more across the grain...

Sorry Apricotripperbut shrinkage will actually DECREASE the size of a mortice. you have fallen into a common trap in assuming that the wood will shrink away from the hole, but it actually shrinks...

what an idiot! everyone knows about table clips. if they didnt their picnic tablecloth would blow right off the table in a strong wind.

i would be inclined to use thicker glass for a table top, but i suppose it depends on how often you want to clean up the broken glass.

(minimum 5 mm preferably 8mm, no way i would go for anything...

dazzler, if you are going to glue them directly to the mdf, i wouldnt bother with the splines. that eliminates choice 2. being that they are 8mm thick i cant see a spline joint adding any real...

I guess i must be just lucky. the staff in the toolshop at my local bunnies are quite knowedgeable. They look after me very well and i wouldnt dream on sending any of them on a fool's errand. mind...

remind me not to let you near any of my chisels

good thinking, BobL, and it illustrates the point i was making earlier that you build the work surface first, then build or rebuild the base. not meaning to labour a point but the...

you only need 2 tools for emergency situations, a roll of duct tape and a can of wd40. if it moves and it isnt supposed to use the duct tape. if it doesnt move and it is supposed to use the wd40

stirlo, my recommendation for a young lad like yourself is to do an experiment and make your own dusty, really its not that hard. i made mine using an old washing machine motor. i just designed an...

like my old mate confuscious used to say.......



benchdog

The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and it won again.

The next day, the local paper read: PASTOR'S...

i surely will post some piccies but it might be a couple of weeks off, shedtime limmited over the next little while by family commitments, too many weddings, engagements and birthdays, but watch this...

BobL, thats about how i do most of my work too. and in this case i wont be starting conbstruction until i can envisage the benchtop in my mind. it is the first part of the project. then and only then...

i used to write a 48 page newspaper once a fortnight by myself and take most of the photos, been on tv more often than i care to remember but so what? hasnt made me any different. i dont glow in the...

sorry to hear about your accident, rex, hence the importance of infeed and outfeed support, use of blade guards etc. a timely reminder as we all become complacent now and then. its all very well and...

hi carry pine,
i take it you have one of the more "upmarket" scms. i wouldnt even dream of trying with a gmc, ozito etc, probably nothing short of a dewalt or similar quality. I dont have an scms, i...

i agree Schtoo, i dont think a tool well is needed. i would rather build a separate tool trolley which can be moved around the bench and the whole workshop, as mentioned in another workbench thread,...

ok i will build one sometime over the next couple of weeks and post piccies on this thread. i really think that splines are an under-used technique. i use them for jointing flat boards and i believe...

looks like i better start paying more attention, seems like i missed it on the way out AND on the way back, thats assuming it was here in the first place and assuming it returned. sometimes i wonder...

toddles i started the post above yours before your post appeared on the forum. as you can see from my previous post i want to adopt skew chidamn's solution. it should produce a perfect 45 degree cut...

thats right skew chidamn.
i could tell by your earlier post that you understood what i meant. i want to be able to cut the splines both along and across the grain depending on the shape of the box...

Toddles, i cant see how that would work or even be easy. what am i missing? can you please elaborate?

benchdog

agreed, i love the planer thicknesser ($199) belt and disk sander, circular saw, used for docking to length of long pieces so i can bring them into workshop. the only gmc tool ive returned under...

like i said, dont go back the same day! the remainder of the day in which the f**kup occurred is for relaxation, analysis and consumption of brain lubrication fluid - not woodwork. thats just...

I do like all my triton gear. it has its limitations as well as its advantages when compared to other systems. having said that, i see the superjaws as a product in a class of its own. i am sure...

that looks good skew chidamn, i take it you mean the sled to run along the wc2000 ripping fence with the tongue running in the groove on the 45degree side, sort of like that jig george uses in the...

thats the way to do it, when the day starts going bad and you are starting to make a few mistakes without the assistance of a coldie or two its your body's way of saying it needs a rest and some...

can any of my fellow tritoneers help me with some ideas on how i can do this? i am making some boxes with mitred corners. to make the glue up stage easier and more accurate i want to run a spline the...

nice idea guys but a workbench is all about the work surface that is going to be used. how can you possibly build the base and then build the work surface to fit the base and still end up with a good...

Ive read all that, like i said ive researched the project. not wishing to detract from the worthy contributions made to that thread, it does not provide definitive answers any of the specific...

Hi fellow woodies,

ive been looking at this forum for a couple of weeks and have been dabbling in amateur woodwork for a few years, love this site from what ive seen so far:cool:

i am a...

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