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Looking to buy a new belt drive drill press, can spend up to about $1200. Would prefer full pedestal, belt drive and no LCD screen. Can't seem to find a Laguna or Powermatic. Thanks for any...

For something that was a manufacturing fault and that is so cheap to post I expected airmail, Its what I would have done had I been the supplier.

For the most part am incredibly happy with their...

Fair enough and it was just a case of of poor manufacturing, not the end of the world but I had expected more, will be swapping knobs for a bit, am not keen on epoxying it.

Has this happened to anyone else? Barely used the plane,spent thousands with them, knob just spinning loose, then came off.

They're sending a new one but no apology and 2-4 weeks via surface...

The knives are a bit blunt so I did it all by hand, that was fun but I wouldn't want to do it in hardwood or any more than 6 pieces.

But if I took one of the boards I did today and used that as...

Apparantly the old mans son didn't want to take over, but I can't imagine profits were huge... not when they had to compete with the crap we have now.

The land value of the site must have been...

I used to work for Brims...they made an excellent product, cheap for the quality you got and they had the most well treated employees and cleanest factory environment I've ever seen. Boral have gone...

I need to put a gentle taper (19mm down to 10mm) along the length of a pine board 300mm wide and 250mm long, a very thin and wide wedge.

Rather than making a sled to go throught the thicknesser...

I don't post often so maybe this has been mentioned before and I missed it, but if not it's a good run through of building a decent bench. Wish I has seen it a few months ago.

Master...

Thanks, I would if there was one...have realised there are better way to have done a few things 3/4 of the way through but I won't be starting again.

Any thoughts on this? Or links to plans for anything simpler and better?

Not finished yet, adjustable stopping blocks go in tommorow and then a bigger router, was just testing it out today and...

Thankd for the info on Murray pine, had a closer look, have been avoiding it after the er excitement of it coming off at high speed, it seems to only be one fine crack in one leg, barely noticeable...

The colours are good and it polishes really well on the lathe ...when a laminated blank doesn't fly apart and punch holes in the wall.

Its dry and I can cut around the knots but are the very...

I got the spokeshaves and a couple of saws today, the shaves are just brilliant, like curling butter straight out of the box, they FEEL right, a price comparison on importing the saws versus the...

Yup, its really worth the few extra dollars, I was struggling with rubbish gear, thought I'd treat myself to the 3 bevel ups, within 20 minutes was making the most amazing 8ft long shavings with the...

I bought the machine and pick it up tommorow, there was a little surface rust on the table which they'll clean up for me, its 3 horse power too and was quieter than I thought it would be, paid...

I usually turn away very fast from things that look like gimmicks but this looks very handy, especially for laminations.
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If it doesn't come back to level over time something like this might be your only option.
Those benchtops are difficult to live with, you'll need a few trivets and be diligent about
using...

I built myself a press a few years ago, it really was no problem at all.

Here is the sort of thing I did with it and the pump specs, I think Busch make good pumps too.
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thanks for the vote of confidence in the machine, I've got 3 phase so will be keeping that, the old man is a wizz with micrometers and the like so he can help me tune it up if it needs it.

I've...

Thanks Lignum, I like your furniture very much.

Will look at the saw tuesday and hopefully have it running by next weeknd.

Have you turned yours on? How loud is it?

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I work weekends only on furniture, have been making do with some not so great equipment and am considering this machine.

No...

Wasn't sure if I should post this in 3d modelling, woodturning or here.

Taught myself some 3d modelling , got a bit of timber from the demo yard (any ideas what it is?) and scrap hyde from a...

thanks for all the tips, the slot that holds the top is only 3.5mm deep so for this table I think it will be okay. But ok isn't really good enough :) I made a mortising jig with stopping blocks which...

My router is a single speed makita, no soft start, old but mostly good.

I want to put on a speed controller, any tips where to get a good one, how to go about it or perhaps adapting something...

I've never really used the router table a lot until recently, but will be using it a lot more soon. Its been doing this for months but has only been a minor concern so I've just carried on.

Its a...

I am trying out the danish soaped finish, google it, there is not much information but it looks nice and apparantly there are some floors in Denmark 100's of years old that still look good.

cheers, I'll be trying it out with some lux flakes today, I think it is a little more complex than making a sludge and then buffing it off a day later but any instructions for old fashioned finishes...

I am making some stuff in Tas oak and want to try a pale Danish soaped finish, like what the company pp mobler uses, does anyone know how to go about this, what soap flakes to get, lye etc etc ?
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Am making these lip edged Hans Wegner style coffee tables, tas oak all rounded over, 12mm top slides into slot routed on inside.

I've done a half lap instead of a mortise and tenon on the...

the poly-u glue seems fine, thanks though.

So I can pretty much laminate the face sides with whatever I like as long as I do both sides in the same species? I don't want to do any cross graining...

Hi, I've got a lot of these WR cedar strips (2000X45x3) and the curved laminations are good with polyurtheane glue (disaster with white glue) so its all good except that the timbers not so pretty,
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I worked for a commercial furniture manufacturer (boo hiss) a couple of years ago and they had a huge tin of "danish wax" . I am finishing a new project with a simple shellac and wax finish and can't...

G'day havn't posted for a while cos I've not been doing much woodwork but a project for a mate involves getting about 300 metres of 31mmx11mmm clear hoop pine moulding.

Prices per metre seem to...

havn't posted in ages

Try this for the stone www.offcuts.com.au , it should be a great site one day.

But be careful, I have a piece of granite that I thought would be great for assembling...

I've picked up hundreds of metres of 3mm cedar strip rejects (most of them look fine to me) from a blind manufacturer and am doing some gentle curved laminations (600mm radius) with pva, I'd rather...

Thought I'd put up an experiment, had a few sheets of 3mm mild steel around and wanted to see if I could make origami out of it, knew a fella who had folding equipment, I had a rectangle and...

Any suggestions for good galleries that stock higher end work? Queensland and interstate? Have had a look online and can't find many, grateful for any suggestions - Hoopy

G'day, am making chunky tas oak end grain coffee table, like a butchers block, all rounded corners and was wondering the best way to finish the top? I was going to fill with feast watson sanding...

I'm making some table tops which are laminex both sides over 12mm ply with exposed edges, I'm having trouble with scorching and not really getting a smooth run. I'm rough cutting with a jigsaw and...

Tasmanian Myrtle is Nothofagus cunninghamii

I've had a look in a couple of books and I don't know how accurate it is but apparantly Northern hemisphere Beech and Southern Hemisphere beech are closely related, both Nothofagus spp. Tasmanian...

Fine Woodworking on bending wood is pretty good, a collection of articles (steaming, vacuum pressing, tapered laminations, straight laminations, curved ply etc)

I think a srtaight lamination with...

I make vacuum bent plywood stuff and use av syntec 203 urea formaldeyde at the moment, I'd rather use something less toxic which can bond under high vacuum, any suggestions? Thanks - Hoopy