you could pay me with the 72's for an 18" bar, i have an 18" husqvarna that i need chains for
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Hey Mister Hall, thanks for posting that news clip. You chew them out for giving you a different name??? Jerry (in Tucson)
Ya, several of the Husqvarna 18" bars are set for the .325 with 72 drive links. I should have taken the time to look at the chains closer before hand. Two years ago I was given 4 new chains, 66 drive links each. Same deal, Husky ran 66 while Sthil ran 67. I bought a new 16" Sthil bar, cut a 1/2 off it, drilled new oil port holes and bar adjustment holes. When those chains were at half life, they had stretched a bit and worked fine on a standard 16" Sthil bar.
Looking back, I should have likely just gave them to someone who had the correct saw & bar set up from the start.
And then, if you're like me, you'll lose where you wrote it down . . .
Plane with both flattened and non- flattened jigs.
Flattened close up
And non- flattened
I created a jig for cutting the angles on the end of the kumiko jigs.
Well, support for any cut on narrow end grain, really.
Well, support for any cut on narrow end grain, really.
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It would have been way easier to just shorten the chain one link. Any power equipment shop that makes chains can shorten them.
Nice looking router plane! Not something you use everyday, but when you need it, nothing else will do the job as well.
Some of the bowls donated to the San Antonio, and Boerne, TX Empty Bowl charity auctions by Alamo Woodturners.
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That one with the maple leaves on it is outstanding!
I agree, she burns "Pyography" the pattern into the wood, then hand paints them with stains and such. You can see her Demo here
@kweinert I really dig that little router plane.
The only issue I have with it at the moment (and it's entirely probable that it's my lack of experience) is that it seems like there is a lot of "slop" in the adjustment.
What I mean by that is that right now I tend to set it a little too deep and when I try to back it out the knurled knob has movement before it actually backs it out. So, of course, I back it out too far. And then the opposite occurs - I end up too deep when I try to put it back down.
Since I've never had one before this may be perfectly normal and I just need to learn how to use it :)
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Ken, it's called backlash. And yup you kinda have to get used to it. Where did you get that router plane? Is it a custom made or a commercial unit.
Just a simple cabinet to stash garage junk that has been on the floor off and on for 3 years or so. On wheels so it can go to future home. Nothing fancy, again just more practice and skill building.
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Well..... when you feel like cutting— you do.
Now have 30-40 rounds to put up somewhere.
Now have 30-40 rounds to put up somewhere.
Started a new test. I have a couple of maple burl cutoffs that I got from someone here that was using them for pot calls. So these are roughly 4" square but aren't full thickness, may not be the entire square, etc. Right now I'm trying to double dye them (blue/green) using the soaking method that someone else posted here. (My grasp of names has not improved with age - apologies to all concerned.)
They've soaked in the blue and were baked, now they're out in the green. The next step will be to make some molds so I can end up with 2 x 4 x 6 blanks that I can slice for knife scales. Currently I'm planning on one with blue epoxy and green mica and the other will be green epoxy with blue mica. We'll see.
This was kind of hit and miss over the weekend because I had a much larger not-in-the-shop project. Our deck has been sagging and since we're having a mild winter (high 40s to mid 50s, no precip) I decided that now would be a good time to take a look at it. This is a place to mention that I *hate* phillips head screws. It's a 14 x 16 deck.
So we've pulled about 1/2 the deck boards off and I now have the end board (stringer) off and now that it's been measured we have a 4 1/2" deflection over about 12 feet. Evidently a 2x8 with no center support isn't quite enough :) Interestingly enough the center support that runs at the 1/2 point is sistered 2 x 10s but the end support board and end stringer are 2x8s.
I now have the new end board attached to the posts and it's almost perfectly level. At the moment I'm jacking up the end of the joists so they're even with the stringer and blocking underneath them. After it's all leveled up then I'll put on the joist hangers, fasten the joists to the stringer, replace the board that the joist set on, and add a new post in the center.
And I've discovered that while most of me may not be as old as I look my back sure is :)
They've soaked in the blue and were baked, now they're out in the green. The next step will be to make some molds so I can end up with 2 x 4 x 6 blanks that I can slice for knife scales. Currently I'm planning on one with blue epoxy and green mica and the other will be green epoxy with blue mica. We'll see.
This was kind of hit and miss over the weekend because I had a much larger not-in-the-shop project. Our deck has been sagging and since we're having a mild winter (high 40s to mid 50s, no precip) I decided that now would be a good time to take a look at it. This is a place to mention that I *hate* phillips head screws. It's a 14 x 16 deck.
So we've pulled about 1/2 the deck boards off and I now have the end board (stringer) off and now that it's been measured we have a 4 1/2" deflection over about 12 feet. Evidently a 2x8 with no center support isn't quite enough :) Interestingly enough the center support that runs at the 1/2 point is sistered 2 x 10s but the end support board and end stringer are 2x8s.
I now have the new end board attached to the posts and it's almost perfectly level. At the moment I'm jacking up the end of the joists so they're even with the stringer and blocking underneath them. After it's all leveled up then I'll put on the joist hangers, fasten the joists to the stringer, replace the board that the joist set on, and add a new post in the center.
And I've discovered that while most of me may not be as old as I look my back sure is :)
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It's commercial, got it for Christmas off my Amazon Wish List: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074LHXC44
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I have three layers of mats in front of my big lathe & most of the shop floor covered in interlocking foam cushions.