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- Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:53 am
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Searching for a good respirator
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12355
Re: Searching for a good respirator
I've taken to using my old CPAP machine - the mask is very comfortable for working and the delivery of air at continuous positive pressure prevents entry of dust particles. I've connected the intake port of the machine to a box that I constructed, that has a room-sized HEPA filter, or I can draw air...
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:50 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Left handed block planes? Or hand agnostic?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3134
Re: Left handed block planes? Or hand agnostic?
I was about to joke about finding a left-handed plane in the same store aisle as the left-handed screwdrivers.
My old Stanley 60-1/2 low-angle plane has a lever to secure the blade, with the adjustment screw at the back. This model is produced by several manufacturers.
My old Stanley 60-1/2 low-angle plane has a lever to secure the blade, with the adjustment screw at the back. This model is produced by several manufacturers.
- Fri Feb 21, 2020 7:08 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: about using an eggbeater drill
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9538
Re: about using an eggbeater drill
I think I have pretty much always had one like Beate's. It probably got more use before I finally succumbed to buying a battery operated drill/electric screwdriver but it is regularly used nonetheless. I can't really imaging being without one. I would quite like to have a brace (as in brace and bit...
- Wed Feb 19, 2020 8:57 am
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Glue spreader applicator
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13075
Re: Glue spreader applicator
A piece of hacksaw blade (tpi-your choice), with a dowel handle, shaped like a T. Spread, swish in water, dry.
- Fri Feb 07, 2020 9:06 am
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: about using an eggbeater drill
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9538
Re: about using an eggbeater drill
Gosh, I feel better about posting this now. Here's a link to a video by Mr. Chickadee, who is busting a homestead out of the trees of Kentucky. He uses 18th & 19th century tools, and in this video he demonstrates the technique of using an eggbeater drill, pretty much as I described it above. You mig...
- Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:52 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: matching the chayotiance of a four-piece top
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3376
matching the chayotiance of a four-piece top
Hello, In my pile of odds & ends, i found a a very nice piece of spruce that's 5-3/4 wide. I think it could become a good soundboard. As I recall from the Olden Days, that four-piece tops were built up to full width on the lower bout by gluing on the offcuts from the waist as 'wings' at the widest s...
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:50 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: how to avoid fumbling the nut
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2473
Re: how to avoid fumbling the nut
Oh, the Lady Wife saw me taking the pics for this post, and she suggested that I also show you my precision fence that I'm using to cut lock corner joints for tool drawers (left foreground). It's a folding/parallel wedge design with a 1:4 pitch. It translates a 1/32" displacement in the Y direction ...
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:33 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: about using an eggbeater drill
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9538
Re: about using an eggbeater drill
Beate, That looks like drill that was made for timberframing a house or barn, as the Amish do in the USA. It looks like it's meant to be used in the horizontal position with the foot pressed against the torso.
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- Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:56 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: how to avoid fumbling the nut
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2473
how to avoid fumbling the nut
Hello, Have you ever dropped the arbor nut and flange washer down into your table saw? Well here's a little widget that relieves that frustration. It's a piece of springy wire that engages the dimple in the end of the arbor shaft, and catches/carries the nut & washer as you remove/replace them. (For...
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 3:34 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: about using an eggbeater drill
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9538
Re: about using an eggbeater drill
Mark says... "a large handled screwdriver with a keyless 3/8" drill chuck" I've got a hefty one, and a fancy one. The hefty one that I made on my lathe, is for chucking up homemade detail chisels that I make from spade bits (they're most often used on the lathe), and a beautifully make orthopedic su...
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:01 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: about using an eggbeater drill
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9538
about using an eggbeater drill
I don't know if anybody here has a hankering to use an eggbeater hand drill, but maybe so. There may be times when a very slow drill speed might be desired. I recently acquired a Millers Falls No. 2A drill (circa 1957) in very good condition, but I found it very clumsy to use at my first attempts. S...
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 5:35 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Taking care of dust in the shop
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5727
Re: Taking care of dust in the shop
I bought a Dust Stopper, and it's fundamentally a Thien-type separator. The slot for the dust fallout starts with a hole about 2 inches diameter that tapers into the slot that is about 9/16" wide. The baffle for the exhaust port is a small section of a circle, about a 1' arc of the 1-1/4" port. The ...
- Wed Jan 01, 2020 5:24 pm
- Forum: Jam Session
- Topic: it looked pretty rough
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2923
Re: it looked pretty rough
maybe he'll play in the lap position with a slide
- Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:04 pm
- Forum: Jam Session
- Topic: it looked pretty rough
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2923
- Wed Dec 18, 2019 4:33 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Taking care of dust in the shop
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5727
Re: Taking care of dust in the shop
my shopbuilt wall-mounted system has worked very well indeed with no appreciable collection of dust in the upper grey bucket where the HEPA filter is (see pic, also a construction thread from a few years ago). However, I later built a movable version on a furniture dolly that is a bit too clumsy to ...
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:14 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Taking care of dust in the shop
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5727
Re: Taking care of dust in the shop
is the Thien design scalable various diameters? What might be the minimum and maximum diameters, and how wide would the circumferential slot be?
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:17 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: Taking care of dust in the shop
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5727
Re: Taking care of dust in the shop
Here are a few reviews from users. I don't know if some minor modifications can deal with the complaints in the reviews, but I'll have a look. My shopbuilt wallmounted mini-cyclone system is still working perfectly, but it would be nice to have one that is portable. https://www.lumberjocks.com/revie...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:38 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: a wooden plane for sharpening blades & chisels
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3431
Re: a wooden plane for sharpening blades & chisels
No worries. Oh, I forgot to mention stropping afterwards, for the razor edge.
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:19 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: a wooden plane for sharpening blades & chisels
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3431
Re: a wooden plane for sharpening blades & chisels
Barry, I think a simple block is fine for smaller blades. But for larger items such as bench chisels and plane irons, I've found that a wooden plane gives a secure, wobble-free grip on the tool and thus provides consistent results in a short time. I might make another one for my lathe chisels such a...
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 8:52 pm
- Forum: Tools and Jigs
- Topic: a wooden plane for sharpening blades & chisels
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3431
a wooden plane for sharpening blades & chisels
Hello, Sharpening has never been an enjoyable activity for me, and I doubt I'll ever acquire the 'muscle memory' to do it freehand. Also, I've been disappointed by the roller-type guides. So I made a sharpening plane that works very well. I use coarse abrasive paper on a granite floor tile for badly...