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Just passing through and enjoying some vicarious woodworking.

You're looking fit and well.

Nice work, Ed.

Will you be including elbow supports?

Me: Hi. I hear you have some Karri posts.
Him: Yep.
Me. A guy told me they are kiln dried
Him: No mate. Green. Green. Green.
Me: Thought so. I'll tell him he's dreaming.

I contacted the company and the post are definitely Karri and DEFINITELY GREEN. NOT KILN DRIED.

Might be good for something other than fence posts by 2015.

Kiln dried fence Karri fence posts? Is it April the 1st today or what?



Yes. Want some do you?

Let me know who is selling it. I'll have some.

Are you serious? $900/m3 and kiln dried. I can't think of anything I've bought retail than come close to that price in the last 35 years.

$533 is DIRT CHEAP for ANYTHING!

This is Karri. http://reports.lumen.cg.catholic.edu.au/indtech/TimbAustColour/Trees/Karri%20web%20page%20complete.htm

At the price you have been quoted, I'm...

Why remove the riving knife. Just lower it.

I run mine a few mil lower than the blade all the time so there is never any need to mess with it. I also run a SUVA type guard. If your guard...

Royce Cross.

I bought one of their 3HP 90L frame motors. It's capacitor start / capacitor run which means it it draws less than 10 AMPS when starting. Super quiet, cheap at $300 delivered to...

Could you post a link to this 'review' as I can't find it and would like to read it.



This would apply to at least 50% of the advice I've seen on forums worldwide.

Hiya,

I found an interesting paper on carbide tipped saws.

See "Wear of tungsten carbide tipped circular saws in cutting particleboard: Effect of carbide grain size on wear characteristics"...

Jim, you are right pointing raising this question. Lie-Nielsen don't mention it in theirs. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that Chris Schwarz would be so alarmist about this.

It's neither a problem or a quality control issue. The adjustor is set back so that the blade is well protected in transit.

Lie-Nielsen do a similar thing in a different way. They ship their...

The 4hp motor in the N4400 will draw around 17-18A under FULL LOAD, and FULL LOAD only occurs when the motor is bogging down.

If you go back through this thread you will notice that everyone...

It's a dog hierarchy thing.

Next time you see 2 dogs quarreling, keep an eye out for what their eyes are doing. The dominant dog will always stare the weaker dog down until the weaker dog...

I have to agree that drawers under the bench are not ideal. Having said that, I'm currently building some for my bench because I need all the storage space I can get in my cramped workshop.

Buy a Mac.

You are correct about Mesquite being one of the most stable timbers since tangential and radial movement are equal at around 2.3%. This does depends on which of the 45 species of the family you...

Wow.

I must say that I am extremely disappointed to hear this.

47 people order blades, 18 publicly offered to pay a donation (and I understand that most or all of these did), and in the end...

This 3%.

Fossil,

Does yours look like this one?

Cheers

Hi Fossil,

Err. I may have given you some dud info. Mine is an SC3, not a 2. But seeing as it's not going to cost you much I don't feel so bad about it. Besides, the eye-talian machines share...

I just wadded through this thread. What an epic. Someone called it bigger than Ben Hur? No ##### Sherlock!

Anyhoo, I only have one question.

Did TS get his 3%?

I sure hope he did. ...

Nice job.

Bit concerned about the grain direction. I think you would have been better served with some straighter grain because it will twist less as the moisture content changes - and it will...

Hi Fossil,

814 mm x 15 mm x 1 mm

Do you have or need either manual?

Cheers

I thought I'd also compare it physically to an original Norris A5 (N A5), as well as some more common smoothers.

The Ray Iles A5 (RI A5) is an imperfect copy as if it was copied from photographs...

Hiya,

I'd like to collectively gather some opinions on Bailey type metal planes from an Australian point of view. It seems to me that internet forum consensus and ebay prices are strongly biased...

The Timber in Australia in Colour website has data on a fair range of species. http://reports.lumen.cg.catholic.edu.au/indtech/TimbAustColour/Trees/index.htm

Nice. Could only have been surpassed by some single mums on the tables.

Hiya,

I've been busy, and I must've been good too because Christmas has come early. Only it wasn't Santa, it was the UPS guy at my door this morning. I only finalised the order with Sam Iles...

I have looked over your post and I am quoting you below so not to make an error.



So no special sharpening, and a banana plane? By banana, do you mean it was more than just a few thou out, or...

Derek,

I publicly apologised to you back in post 89, see https://www.woodworkforums.com/showpost.php?p=987129&postcount=89

Not only have you lacked the common decency to acknowledge my apology,...

? I posited no such argument. Feel free to contradict me.



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And the most successful maker of infill planes was probably Norris, or at least they out lived all the others. My understanding is that many of their A5 and A6 smoothers were only bedded at a rather...

Thanks again. I'm heading down to the local library for a looksee.

The Australian Made Furniture website http://www.australianfurniture.com.au/ausmadeindustry.aspx?pageID=fh1 has really nice and concise timelines. They start at 1788 to present, and are presented as...

Thank you.

Amazingly, there is someone else that can seen the world doesn't consist only of the handful of countries that even know what a Lie-Nielsen planes is, or think that an english infill...

Gee. I wonder what planes they use in the countries where these exotic tropical hardwood come from - aside from Australia. I've lived in Mozambique, East Timor, India, and Vanuatu. I travelled...

My choice in bike or avatar is somehow relevant to this discussion?

This is a trick question, isn't it? Of course you would, and you wouldn't even have to use it.

Kinda reminds me of when I bought the Ducati I'm riding in my avatar. It was 3 years old and hadn't...

Absolutely agree about the chipbreaker discussion not being relevant. I included it because of the excellent photos of chip formation which fail to show any evidence of springback. If you know of...

See http://planetuning.infillplane.com/html/chipbreaker_study.html

This will dispel may myths regarding chipbreakers. But I am posting this because it contains microscope video footage taken...

They well may be cut off at the top. Only the iron in the blade doesn't know that it should only wear on the leading edge, so some of the wear also occurs on the trailing edge. Maybe it's cause by...

About the simplest answer to that questions is, pushing the blade through wood.

Both upper and lower wear bevels form at the same time, only the upper wear bevel is always about 3 times bigger.

Indeed. Thank you.

First answer on clearance angle.

As the blade wears, it wears unevenly. As a blade is used it wears from the perfectly sharpened edge you started with into a new shape called a wear bevel. The...

Perhaps you missed the section on the Stanley 51/52 Chute plane.

True. Posted to wrong thread.

First answer on clearance angle.

As the blade wears, it wears unevenly. As a blade is used it wears from the perfectly sharpened edge you started with into a new shape called a wear bevel. The...