Some time earlier this year I only posted a couple of these pictures.
I was off work several months, and I killed some time making a small guitar.  It is really to my liking, even if not fully polished and professional.


I used rift-saw Red Oak for the back and sides...  not a best-selling choice, but it has a sound I very much like.


Using the No. 6 to thickness one of the sides prior to bending:


   



Bending the side with a thrift-store curling iron:

   



Smoothing the back joints with my ECE Emmerich horn plane:

   



Installing a hand-curled rosette into a round slot cut with my Lee Valley string inlay cutter:

   



Cutting a place for a "beauty splice" where the 2 curved sides come together:

   



Inserting a thin wedge to beautify that joint:

   



More to follow!

Hey gang.  Quick question for the group.  I've put down a handful of hardwood floors successfully, but it's always been over plywood subflooring.  I'm helping a friend out by adding/extending existing hardwood flooring from a living room into her kitchen.  The subfloor is hardwood boards set 45 degrees to the floor joists.  The existing floor in the house has been there for decades, so I know the subfloor is sufficient, but I'm wondering if I can still use air nailed staples as the fasteners, or since it's a solid wood subfloor, I'm forced to use flooring nails instead?  Thanks!

It's not as if I do not have a router table. I built a very nice, full featured one, four years ago, into the outfeed of a Hammer K3 slider ...



However, the workshop is small and it can be inconvenient to access this router table as machines need to be rolled out of the way. It occurred to me - possibly as I was looking for a quick fix before the next build - that it would be a fun project to add a small router table into the extension of a MFT ...



The MFT is built from mortise-and-tenoned pine, and is solid enough to use as a second bench for hand tools ...



The hinge for the track is shopmade from aluminium. Details here: https://www.inthewoodshop.com/Powered%20...ceMk2.html

I came across an inexpensive compact router plate and lift on Temu that looked solid. These are original designs, as far as I can tell.



I built the fence on the first router table, and I have done so again. This one is a simple construction with a different design from the usual for adjusting depth of cut. Let me know what you think.

The completed router table construction looks like this ...



Here it is set up with the fence ...



The router plate has above-table height adjustment as well as a lock for the lift ...



I made my own handle as the supplied version was not up to scratch ...



There is a rather good starter fixture with a bearing for smooth rolling ...



The plate came with two inserts, one small hole and one huge. The huge was modified to medium and another added using perspex ...



Note the blank insert made to keep dust out of the router spindle when the router table is not used.

Open the door to the sealed box to access the speed change ...



Also seen is the power switch, available from Timbecon (in Perth).

Below the box is a drawer for all accessories ...



The fence is constructed from 3mm section 75mm high aluminium angle 300mm long. The sliding faces are 8020 aluminium extrusions. This is all easily cut on a table saw. No lay out here as all was in the scrap bin.



The fence does not run in T-slot mitre tracks, but instead rotated around a locked pin at one end ...



There is sufficient forward adjustment ...



... and rearward ...



Dust control comes from a outlet below the box ...



.. and and above, using a double hose from Festool. This runs to a vacuum cleaner ...



When not in use, the fence is hung on the rear side of the MFT ...




Regards from Perth

Derek

Hey there,

We love movies, we love to recline, we love to lounge in the couch, and we love to have a seat in the center of the sound cone. Alas, there are few couches that allow the center part to recline, given the structural needs to do so. I have found 1, however, the Alivinghome three seater recliner leather sofa which can be joined together to create one couch via pop-up armrests.
I was wondering if you folks knew of any other couches like this or similar?

Hi,

I have this fence and one of the slides is loose.  The retaining washer I got at Lowe's doesn't fit and I also lost the plastic covering for one of the slides.  (You can see the "naked" one in the 1st image).

Anyone have a old Unifence they're not using (I know, I know...silly question) and would be willing to part with this part? 
  Or do you have a reliable site to buy Delta replacement parts?



I tried ereplacementparts. com and the slides aren't made/available anymore.  Thanks!

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Man I love making these things. Freehand and whatever your mind can dream up. It has become a family and friend thing every year. For a while I had everybody loaded up on ornaments. Now they expect a different one each Christmas.

My subject planer had an incident in which after years of reliable use an internal screw came loose and tore up the cutterhead pulley and the screw.
I think I found one on eBay that will work, if the thousands of an inch are okay - still checking on that.
However, the ones that I'm finding that are available are missing the two two positive stop notches (idk what else to call them) into which a lever drops to lock the pulley in place whilst changing blades.
Maybe I don't need those positive stops. To my assessment the only function they have is to hold the cutterhead in place whilst changing the blades. I suppose I can do that without the cutterhead being locked into place.

Does anyone have a know reliable source where I can get this pulley and help me reduce my searching time?
Below is a link to one I found on eBay. Notice that it does not have the positive stops as the one in the positive stops link has.


eBay pulley linky

positive stops

thanks

Ok, Ok, I'll tell you


I was changing the planer blades on my Dewally lunchbox planer!


I figure it was a quiet job and it wouldn't wake up SWMBO.


But I did wait until she went to work to run a few test cuts.....she now purrs like a kitten........SWEEEET!!!


(the planer I meant....not the wife)

I just picked up a stash of maple and some of it is covered in a clear wax. A lady posted it “free”- her brother milked it off his property but has since passed away. Some 8/4, some 4/4 and some are half round slabs.
How do I remove the wax?
I am going to use a beautiful half round to make a couple shelves for her in honor of her brother and to thank her for her generosity.

Hi All

I just picked up a 16” Felder Jointer/planer combo machine and am going to sell my 8” General jointer and 15” powermatic planer. Both are in excellent condition and have been used in my home shop for over 12 years. I upgraded both with Shelix brand spiral cutter heads. Jointer comes with a mobile base. Planer has built in lockable wheels. Jointer is 1.5hp 20a 220v Baldor motor (I think it’s a baldor. Need to confirm). Planer is 3hp 30a.

Looking for $1000 for the jointer and $2000 for the planer.

I’m located in Mountainside NJ (moved from Westfield to a new place with a somewhat smaller garage so decided to go the combo machine route).

Both machines will be available for pickup in a week or so (currently in a POD while we await our Oct 26 move in) . I posted now to gauge interest before I post elsewhere.

Apologies for the poor pictures, the machines are in storage.