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Hey guys, with the cold and wet keeping me indoors I am putting a bit more time into completing the code for the automatic box joint jig I have been working on for what seems an eternity and have...

Hey guys while in the middle of a project looking for my short aluminum sash clamps (as I haven't got around to finding their forever home) I had a bit of a brain wave and quickly knocked up the...

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Hey guys I finally got around to putting together a how to guide to convert a Bosch 14.4 PSR drill to Liion. I have created some STL files (3D printer) for the templates referred to and can send...

I have finally got some more shed time today and added a coat of a beeswax/boiled linseed oil / turps finish (yet to be buffed out). There are 4 variants. Removable lid, deep lid with micro hinges...

Mpot, thanks for the suggestion but been there and tried that, the main issue is how far inboard to put them so that they open and the box is not held open by a couple of mm due to binding etc. for...

For the last couple of weeks I have been making 12 finger jointed small boxes (20 x 15 x 12cm) to give to office colleagues when I retire in a week or so. They are made from cedar fence posts pulled...

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Hey guys I thought I would share with you all my recent experiences making some 'secret santa' presents for colleagues at work.

I am making some small wooden boxes out of 50 year old cedar fence...

Hey guys and gals, I have got to make a new finger joint jig for the router table and have just realised that I am doing it backwards (yes I am slow on the uptake). What I mean is that I tend to pull...

An interesting video, I liked the jig nature of his workshop. I assume he used a dovetail cutter to rout the grooves and but my only issue is where / how were the bowtie dutchman made. Unfortunately...

Just in case anyone out there has the same issue. I took the vice completely apart today and found that the half nut had managed to rotate 180 degrees inside the square channel and was pushing the...

Combined fonts of knowledge,
Some 15 years ago I splurged out on a pivot (front) jaw 255mm Dawn woodworking vice for the new bench I built. In it's life it has been used one or twice during the week...

Thanks for the reply. I had thought about 3 holes @120 degrees apart so making half holes would be possible using the milling machine and an endmill so it is possible to add it to the plastic ones...

Hey guys (and gals),
I have been revisiting my TR001 based router table I built many moons ago and replaced the 6mm acrylic top I made way back when with a 10mm aluminium plate. I first though about...

I picked up one of these that was 'well used' but they are so well built a couple of new bearings later and a good clean it is quiet, powerful and will cut all day if I need it to. I have it in a...

I was trying to avoid that as I have never done anything that large in laminations but looks like I may be forced to.

no sorry 2 per join sorry for not being clear.

Hi guys and gals,
I need some advice. I have been thinking about a hammock stand made out of short sections (30cm) of 45 x 90 each cut at 15degree on either end and joined by 2 floating tenons each...

Tccp123,
I have purchased the following bits to use with my version of Ryan's design

HRC60 Solid Carbide 75mm 100mm END Mills 2 Flute Long END Mills 4 6 8 10 12mm | eBay
Extra Long HSS END MILL...

Dear all,
I thought I would share this axa toolholder rack I completed today:

It was made from some 9.4mm diameter bright steel bar recently repurposed from a canon printer, some 4mm stainless...

The parts arrived today and were fitted within 10 minutes. The delay was due to the UK warehouse being out of stock and having to wait for delivery from.. you guessed it Clayton!

Regards

Mike

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While I appreciate that we now live in a throw away society I do get the feeling that the customer need to be given a better deal. I recently took a power washer in for repair, it is a...

Colleagues,
As you read this you will probably say "You stupid old fool, I could have told you that ages ago" but the older I get the more I seem to forget, I blame the Aluminum pans in the 70's.
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HCIM et Al.
Last year I was in a similar position with a bosch electric hammer power drill, it too had been unused for a period of about 18 months and the first time i used it it went bang. The...

Joe,
The support is quite stiff, it is held onto the fence with 4 x 6mm bolts and the 'pin' is tightened quite a bit as I was concerned with the flexing of the bearing and coming into contact with a...

Just before Christmas I decided to make a start on some Adirondack chairs, for the challenge as well as using up some of the spotted gum reject floor boarding obtained from this forum. I decided that...

Alastair,
I do remember something about that in the dim and far too distant past in A level chemistry. I will blame the aluminium saucepans I used for years...

Wendy, I will look out for these...

Soth,
This is the sketchup file of one I made a while back. The router is an old GMC from a 'difficult' router table I had and the y axis is handled by a winder mechanism. The difficult part is the...

Just come in and tried a slice of lemon and it has worked, little or no staining and fresh smelling hands (not that they don't normally smell very nice). I will, however, get some barrier cream. ...

Phil,
Is there any reaction to soap as it seems that most of it appears when I start to wash off the bits that appeared where I have touched the top of the table saw. I will try the lemon juice. ...

Alastair,
Any idea on easily getting rid of the stains as soap and water didn't seem to work very well and a good scrubbing each time I come out of the shed is taking its toll on me!

Regards
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Colleagues,
I have noticed that when I come in from playing with the other wife (shed) as the first wife calls it I have noticed that there is a dark blue staining over my hands and lower arms. The...

Scally,
This is one fine looking chair, I have decided to add it and its 3 brothers to my list of 'summer jobs' using the spotted gum floor boarding from Studley as I do like the shape.
I have a...

Hey Namtrak that is probably a good idea.

Attached a small box for my secret santa, better than a bottle of plonk or a box of choccies ?

Mike

See my first effort with the timber:

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showpost.php?p=842427&postcount=1

Or should the title be universal reducer?

I have a confession. Yesterday in the shed I was making a couple of jigs on the table mounted Triton and required that I change from a 1/4 inch to 1/2...

Rather belatedly I am posting some pics of the new shed. Although I have got most of the equipment in I am not sure that everything is in its final place.
The first pic is the slab that went down in...

A couple of weeks ago the wife volunteered me to make a new donations box for the local Buddhist Temple. Despite being rather snowed under at work I agreed as I will take any excuse to get into the...

Carl,
When I ran the electric cables to the new shed recently I ran, in different conduit at least 300mm away, a cat5 cable from the router and a couple of phone lines. I have a computer inside a...

Problem solved,
This evening I have had some time to do a bit of investigation and I have found the problem. It was caused by plain stupidity on my part. I noticed that the blades were quite a bit...

Sean,
Is this what you mean ?

Regards

Mike

Joe,
I get the problems with the thicknesser setup where the timber is on the flat table and the blades spin over it so there is no alignment possible, it is one table but thanks for the reference...

Skew,
It is actually at T260 and unfortunately the feed rate is fixed. While i was checking the belt tension I did look at the feed roller and it seemed OK but I had a similar thought whether the...

I have an Hafco T 250 planer thicknesser that is not giving a very good surface to the spotted gum reject flooring I got in the last timber sale. It is leaving a series of ridges perpendicular to...

Hi All,
I have been toying with the idea of an horizontal router for some time now and after deciding to scrap the GMC router table I have made a sketchupfile that shows what I intend to make. The...

Has anyone else had problems uploading files with new threads ? In the past I have had no problems but over the last few days I keep getting the "Server Reset .." error. Does this mean that my...

Last November I started the journey to a new 6m by 9m shed. Today following hastle from the local council (I am sure that they feel they must oppose everything to make sure perople know they are...

Dave, you shouldn't 'dis' The Archers, I have listened for the last 30 years both while in the UK and now online in Aus ! I suppose it reminds me of my childhood growing up on a farm in what was...

Did anyone see the latest 'woodworking' prog on the "How to Channel" tonight. I thought that it might be a bit of a distraction while I wait for the council grant me the permission for the new shed....