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Stunning yellow wood!

nakayama suita tends to be on the harder side, and you do need to rise the mud/slurry a bit before you can use it, which comes to the term of "nagura", basically a slurry rising stone. With mud, I...

it also depends on stone type. I use a 6K synthetic from JapaneseNaturalStones, which is designed as a finisher for japanese kitchen knives. it leaves a very nice haze finish with good hard/soft iron...

yes, its endemic to WA. any chance of sharing some for knife handles ? :D

i can't find any :no: so i can't even complain about the price.

I guess there must be guys also just don't care / know about this and treating these exotic acacia as charcoal wood...

thanks for the input, the only things is, i need something real hard for knife scales. So things like ringed gidgee, ringed mulga and stuff. Googling around yield almost no info on this particular...

Just notice this timber while searching online, exotic figure in ringed pattern, anyone know where can I get some?


Cheers,
James
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Both. Aside form the finish appearance (Jnats blow the synthetics away), I read that since Jnats are less uniform, they actually create certain teeth at the blade to some degree, which makes the...

I mainly use Jnats for my kitchen knives, and what I found is that, compare to shapton GS ceramics stones, the Jnats give a much better sharpening feel and feedback, and yields much better result...

wow, brett, tks very much for sharing your sharpening adventure.

i had a chat with the chap from the LN stand during sydney TWWW show, as he was selling stones as well. i asked his opinion about...

had a look at juniper, looks like the trunk i took is not it, oh well, even if it is pine it can still make its way to bbq.



i am pretty sure wheelinround has some free jacaranda to offer:D

so i finally manage to get the trunks back from far far away... some solid pieces that indeed are 250mm to 300mm in diameter.

i also took some of these trunks that are lying around, the best that...

earlwood, not too far from you compare to hornsby, where the timber is located:p

its sad that we just never have enough space to store even freebies, isn't it! :doh:

can i trade some green with your 20yr+ stock? :D:D

tks Greg, judged by the pic and in comparison with the rubbish bins, i think the larger pieces should have the size of 250-300mm? looks pretty bulky to me.

i will look for somewhere to dry them...

thanks Avery, now i can organise the pick up :U

cheers,
james

hi guys,

i maybe able to get some of the pictured tree branch for tunning , wonder what is the tree and if the timber is okay for turning?
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tks heapz guys,



hi simon, i just bought the mat in baby shop and came up with a set of basic measurements based on the change mat. the design is mostly inspired by forum members' work and from...

hi guys,

made a change table for my son over the weekend, still some problems here and there, but overall pretty satisfied with the effort.

leg material is red mahogany, and the rest is...

got myself a scroll saw today. always wanted to try scrolling and the aldi saw seems a nice entry point.

i am in sydney, yet i picked up mine from GPW. since it is the cheapest even if you get them freight to your door, still cheaper than others and i saved half a day or so stuck in sydney traffic.

so far i am happy with my freud combination blade. i use freud p410 and you can get it cheaply from amazon.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f13/best-sliding-compound-mitre-saw-134313/

there was quit a bit of discussion about it. I think it is at later pages.

you mean this one? Amazon.com: Wixey WR200 Digital Height Gauge with Fractions: Home Improvement

sorry i didn't get your other post, but what exactly does this thing do? by the look of it, it is...

i bought one last year from sydneytools, really well built indeed. while i have not experienced any other brand of thicknesser, i did feed it with some 30cm wide 5cm thick solid red mahogany, and it...

The good thing about amazon is they charge minimal shipping if the order is fulfilled by "amazon export llc", in my case, 2 blades and 2x 50 pack festool sandpaper for $20, can't beat that:wink:

as a matter of fact, also ordered the 10" freud P410 premier 40t fusion blade from amazon.

amazingly, out of the million blades they are not willing to ship to australia, this one slipped their...

hi Malcolm, welcome to the forum. I actually looked into the Makita initially but figured that it may not be versatile and sturdy enough if working with heavy timbers such as ripping 50mm thick red...

Hi Brett, hows things going?
the freight is $120 to depot and an extra $120 for a tail gate delivery to my door (the saw, the mobile base and the JET tenoning jig), via startrack.
I opted the tail...

happily ordered the saw from gary today, really nice to deal with :)

thanks heapz mate, I am ready to be surprised on Tuesday!:D

i buy a lot of festool accessories like sander pads, jigs etc from amazon, and they do ship to AU.
another way is to use a transporting company like myus.com, i registered but have never tried....

Hi Guys,

Looking to jump in for a decent table saw but is limited by working area (about 3x3 meters). After reading the forum threads, I think the GPW 1012 is a really nice little piece of...

Looks interesting, want to know how it compares to the kerg bench top table from carbatec. Looks like 20kg is not very "portable" though.

I tried "perfect glass" from carbatec to fill the holes of a burl slab, worked fine. I would suppose that any epoxy glue based product should do the trick of fixing cracks and holes.

I am also chasing some clamps, large and small. Want to know the price though.

very nice
looking at the description, it seems that the sanding disc "suit any sander/DE hole pattern", therefore I assume it would be okay with festool pads?

If that is the case, I would be...

i also just started into woodworking and i was overwhelmed by how many tools are there and how much they cost! just for saws, there are table saw / bandsaw / sliding compound mitre saw as stationary...

Being lost in the heated debate, a newbie like me wont even dare to participate :D however as I read in the previous posts saying that the kapex has dual laser, I should point out that the new Bosch...

so nice to watch. as i do own a few hand forged damascus kitchen knife, i know how good they are. would be nice to know when the ordering starts :D

i had a look at kapex 120 and the bosch 12 GDL the other day when I was in ST. Can't be happier that I went with the bosch.

Update: just went to sydney tools, and they do have a GCM12 SDL sitting there. Impressive arm movement that goes right back to the wall. The price was about 10% sweeter than advertised $1299 and the...

there is another piece of news regarding the bosch.
Bosch Blue Launches New Mitre Saw | Hub360

yeah, looks like there are folks still interested in this saw, including myself. I may give ST a call tomorrow to check out the status of the saw and see if there is demo available. BTW, I couldn't...

Thanks for the tip, I will definitely give a go on the off-cuts if I can find the chemical. Bunnings should have all these right?

In the mean time, I varnished the timber last night, turned out it...

Sydney tools: $1299:doh:
SYDNEY TOOLS - Bosch 305mm Professional Glide Compound Mitre Saw GCM 12 GDL

For this money, u can almost get a kapex! Very tricky pricing.

Hi guys, I am also looking for a scms recently and bump into this thread. It seems that Bosch has released the fancy arm saw with fancy laser:
GCM 12 GDL Professional Mitre saw Benchtop Tools|Bosch...

thanks for the advice guys.
for now I will just "enjoy the contrast", I personally don't really mind a bit of difference but I guess at one stage I will have to rip it out if I could find a plank...

G'dat mates.

I was replacing a slap of timber flooring over the weekend and turned out that I bought the wrong timber. I should have got NSW spotted gum but ended up getting QLD S/gum (I didn't...