What did you do in your shop today?

How big was the square rip? If he's got to modify it to fit anyhow, why cut it? Why not maybe build a 19 1/2" box to fit the square, w/tapered sheet metal funnel within? Or, simply a piece of 3/4" plywood cut to fit the metal base, that's routed to sit down on the discharge duct.

Started digging in his store and that led me to another with an assortment of dust collection goodies available at pretty reasonable prices too.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Filtration-Equipment/159707/m.html?item=371156153556&_ssn=toolmart750
 
woodtickgreg said:
@NeilYeag What is the wood on the cabinet?
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Greg I was wondering if anyone would pick up on that. It is actually a finger jointed solid wood panel. (look carefully at the pic) They make this in all standard sizes, 12, 16 and 20mm thickness. This one is 16 mm. Comes in 1200x2400 sheets. Cost about US $60.00 a sheet. Not cheap but I guess about the same as cabinet grade plywood you guys have. Here you can not buy plywood for sh..t. It is horrible. They call this stuff Boon Wood. No idea what that means. It kind of works like maple but I don't think it is. People use it for all kinds of small furniture projects like this one. It stains really well and for a painted project it is perfect. Very stable stuff but heavy. Machines and planes easy.

Neil
 
@NeilYeag
I see that wood in lots of imported stuff here, I was just wondering what the species was?
 
I only got a few things done today....

Decided to add some of the PSI compact carpenter/sketch pencils with the 3mm lead to the inventory

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And then knocked out just a few Magnetic Graduate Fountain pens. The really dark one on the right is a special order using a piece of my small stach of Dalbergia Negra and the one down in front is some weird wrinkly Hawaiian pallet wood from @Don Ratcliff ..

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woodtickgreg said:
@NeilYeag
I see that wood in lots of imported stuff here, I was just wondering what the species was?
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No Idea, maybe it is mixed? I should get some close ups and let the Gurus here help ID it. The benefit is, that basically you get a solid wood project without any glue up. The down side as opposed to plywood is that you do have to account for and deal with wood movement.
 
ripjack13 said:
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Marc, I think I figured out the problem that has you tearing up so much good wood... in the pen kits those brass tubes are not for installing after you turn to size, you actually glue them inside the blank BEFORE trying to make a pen. You will find the bushings will fit better too. At least that's what @Schroedc said to do but he uses wrinkled pallet wood to make his pens...

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Don Ratcliff said:
Marc, I think I figured out the problem that has you tearing up so much good wood... in the pen kits those brass tubes are not for installing after you turn to size, you actually glue them inside the blank BEFORE trying to make a pen. You will find the bushings will fit better too. At least that's what @Schroedc said to do but he uses wrinkled pallet wood to make his pens...

:whatever:

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Ok...i'll try that this time....thanks for the heads up.
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Today I got some things done for Johnny Law. I also drove above the speed limit when he wasn't looking :sofa:

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NeilYeag said:
No Idea, maybe it is mixed? I should get some close ups and let the Gurus here help ID it. The benefit is, that basically you get a solid wood project without any glue up. The down side as opposed to plywood is that you do have to account for and deal with wood movement.
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It looks a lot like rubberwood, they export a lot of furniture made from it from that part of the world. I think when the trees are spent for rubber production they make lumber from it, a pretty decent utility hardwood...
 
I think my little p.o.s. craigslist kitchen table is made from the same stuff.
 
barry richardson said:
It looks a lot like rubberwood, they export a lot of furniture made from it from that part of the world. I think when the trees are spent for rubber production they make lumber from it, a pretty decent utility hardwood...
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Interesting, could be. There are tons of rubber tree plantations in the central part of the country. Bottom line is, it's all I have available and it works fine for the utility stuff that I have made out of it.
 
Got back from my summer stay in Sacramento a couple of days ago, much to do around my property, but I need a turning fix. Started roughing out this redwood burl I got from @Anthony. Very happy with it, sprayed soe water on it to show it's figure...
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