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I have for sale a Veritas Small Scraping Plane in great condition.

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I have for sale a Lie Nielsen Spokeshave (round bottom) in great condition.

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I have for sale a Veritas Low Angle Smoother in great condition.

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I have for sale a Veritas Low Angle Jack in great condition.

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Hey guys,

A few years ago I bought some cedar strips for boat building. I was thinking to build a small sailing skiff. So the strips are bigger than what you normally see for canoes/kayaks. That...

Never having used an oil finish before, I bought a can of Feast & Watson Tung Oil for a merbau book shelf I made. On the can it says touch dry in 2 hours, dry/recoat in 24 hours. But it is not dry....

Nope.

Well there's a few things I didn't think of... The cabinet will be around 900mm wide and around 800-900mm tall, not including legs (open to change based on dimensions of the doors and what I think...

Hi Folks,

I was thinking of building a sliding door cabinet. What kind of ratio between width and height of each door should I be looking at to make sure the doors slide and aren't too tippy?...

LOL, nope. I seem to be creating the imperfections... :rolleyes:

I've seen this video a couple of times and it's what hit home for me about the chip breaker position on the blade.




I don't. But this may be the answer to my question - if a scraping plane...

Why is that? Surely a finely set smoothing plane is working in the territory of a scraping plane for shaving thickness? Is there a difference in surface finish? Effort? What am I missing?

Don't...

Not sure that's relevant to my question about whether a conventional plane is better than a scraping plane for the purpose. However, I notice it most in Tas. oak since that's what I use most.

I was wondering - would a scraping plane work as effectively at taming tear out as a smoothing plane with a finely set chip breaker? Seems to me that a lot of effort has gone into getting a plane...

Hi Arry,

If I'm not too late to chime in on the frequency problem, I'd say that the change in frequency will be an issue. As I understand it an electric motor presents a very small impedance to...

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Anybody got any thoughts on how high bevel angle blades in a BU plane compare with a high angle frog in a BU down plane? Will the same effective high angle deal with woods equally as well?

Hey that's a good idea!

Oh cool, another woodworking blog :D



Yes, it's the LV BUJ that I'm considering. I am also interested in their higher bevel angle blades as they can raise the effective cutting angle to 60...

That's what I'm wondering? My longest plane is a jack; which is what I use when I want to joint boards for a panel. This doesn't work very well, but I'll put that down to my inability to hold the...

Thanks guys :D

Hi All,

Wondering if it's possible to get Tas Oak paneling (veneered MDF or plywood) in Brisbane? I'm making a cabinet with a Tas Oak frame.

Cheers,

Tools.

What kind of work is that EJ?

LOL, that cracked me up :D

Thanks for your answer CT. I'm not intending on getting cheap bits, then again, they might be OK to practice on? Mostly I intend to cut box joints and tenons. Maybe...

Hi folks,

I'm about to buy a Triton TRA001 router, to fit into a CarbaTec table I already have. What's a good range (and brand) of bits to get? I was thinking CMT cause they are orange like the...

So, I was checking out my favourite online auction site recently when I spied a desireable piece of machinery. I contacted the seller and got the following response.

Me: " Is the machine complete...

Another nice job Derek with excellent photos! Looks like a very handy tool you've made there.

Sooo... you probably don't need that big back-saw anymore? :U

Me too :(

Hey Jason, have you checked out the Blue Spruce range? I haven't seen them in person but they look to be very well made: www.bluesprucetoolworks.com - Butt Chisels Probably in the same league as the...

I got mine off Jim Davey, butt the delivery was extremely slow and I had to chase him up a couple of times about them. Other items bought off Jim were delivered lightning fast, so this was peculiar?...

Hi Jason,

I bought a set of the Woodriver butt chisels which can be seen here: Buy WoodRiver 4 Piece Butt Chisel Set at Woodcraft

They came in a handy wooden box in 1/4" 1/2" 3/4" and 1". They...

Hi Mal,

I was considering that. Well a machinist actually. I think they'd have to mill it out, can't see how you could hold it in a lathe? Anyway, is that a common skill for saw doctors?

Hey Andy, thanks for the reply. I picked up a couple of those bushes today. I figured I'd be stuck using 30mm blades.

The triple chip seems to be for laminated boards like melamine, do you reckon...

Hi folks,

I just bought a table saw, a Bosch GTS 10 J. When I reviewed the specs on the Bosch website (item not listed on Australian Bosch website) it showed a 30mm blade bore. Cool, I thought,...

I think the SWER can produce this effect. Since the ground is the return conductor for the SWER transformer, there could be a potential difference between the transformer and the shed sizeable enough...

Wow :oo: That's awesome! How did you build it? Can I have one? :D

Holy crap you lot. What a lot of misinformation and half-truths! If the RCD is tripping you have a life-threatening fault. You get to reset it once. Call an electrician.

2.5mm general purpose rod at about 90-100A can do it. The rod will want to stick and the material will likely blow out. You'll need to stop and start quite a bit. This is where MiG's shine.

Good...

Hi Graeme,

While there's a chance that the material the brushes are made from is similar, there's more of a chance that it's not. While the saw was free, it would be a shame to damage the...

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No doubt the LN is good, possibly the best there is. But the Veritas...

Chook, wait till you try the Veritas BU jack! :D

Welcome Chizler. What kind of wooden boats are you interested in?

I think most of my experiences with Carba Tec have been covered in earlier posts. I only wanted to chime in to swell the ranks. :2tsup:

The rail system in Japan is just fantastic. Before you go, you can buy a tourists pass on the Shinkansen (bullet trains). These trains put the whole country at your disposal (at 275km/hr) and nowhere...

Hi All,

I wanted to venture into making my own wooden bodied planes. Side bead, rounds and hollows, that type of thing. What Australian woods are good for this type of thing?

Any advice in the...

Gary, could it be that the nylon bush is loose on the shaft (or loose inside the stone)? Maybe after a little while running it gets off-centre and vibrates? Have you dressed them?

Simon, what you need is this formula: P(W) = √3 × PF × I(A)× V(V)

Your fully loaded 6A motor will have a power factor of about 0.8PF on our 415V 3 phase mains. √3 is about 1.73 or...

Power is a function of torque and RPM. So, even with the VSD delivering full load current at any rpm, power will rise and fall with revs. As someone else mentioned and I think you're onto yourself,...

Cheers mate, that's a good read. It's good to see the saw and fences are square to each other. What about other set angles (ie: 45deg)? Can it make an accurate series of cuts to form box mitre joints?