What did you do in your shop today?
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If debated upgrading to that machine but it's basically the same thing I've got with the motor turned around, which would be nice, and the tach. Have seen a few for sale, in fact there's a couple in this area now, that I could about break even on. Keep telling myself too wait until I find a deal on a bigger heavier machine.
So, looking at the alignment it appears as if I need to shim the headstock up just a bit.
However, I'm not looking to invest in a lifetime (even if I were younger) supply of different shims - anyone have an idea of how to pick up just a few pieces of (I presume) brass for raising the headstock just a skosh?
However, I'm not looking to invest in a lifetime (even if I were younger) supply of different shims - anyone have an idea of how to pick up just a few pieces of (I presume) brass for raising the headstock just a skosh?
Walmart is having a sale on Skosh.
3 for a Dollar.
3 for a Dollar.
Go to a local trophy shop, they use thin plates for the front of plaques, probably have some scrap.
Amazon has a wide assortment of brass shim Ken, some ridiculously priced, some not to bad for small pieces. If you can figure out how much a skosh is, you might be able to find what you need there. For instance one offer I just looked at for .0o5 x 4 x 3 was $5 and change, Prime to boot, so free shipping. Another piece was $6.25. Then there are assortment packs that they want a week's wages for!
Automotive supply stores may stock it. And, it's fairly common in Gun Repairs, but it's probably not going to be as cheap there.
Automotive supply stores may stock it. And, it's fairly common in Gun Repairs, but it's probably not going to be as cheap there.
Depending on how big of a piece you need, an Automotive Feeler Gauge has a multitude of thicknesses in Thousands of an inch!
Hobby Shops.
Now that Ray mentions it, Hobby Lobby has thin metal sheets, for metal punching art... whatever you call that. Want to say there was some smaller pieces back in the woodworking section near the clock goodies too.
Come to think of it, I bought some thin copper sheets, about 12" square. 4 of them in the package for about $8 at Michael's or Hobby Lobby.
Today was a day to get things done.
Started out by straightening up the shop. Horizontal surfaces were all completely covered. Not anymore.
Made some zero clearance inserts for the Unisaw.
Finished getting the Unisaw all set up, dialed in, etc. It's now making sawdust!
Then I took care of a problem. With my current shop layout, there was no good place where I could set up the planer and be able to have enough space to run 8' long boards through. If it wasn't winter, I could just wheel it out into the driveway and run the boards through out there. But it's winter. So I built a riser for my planer that lifts it up higher than the table saw, outfeed table, and workbench heights. This will allow me to park the planer in front of the outfeed table and run boards up to 9' through without having to open the garage door.
Then I got some maple ready to run through the planer, which will be the first thing I do in the shop in the morning.
There's a kitchen hutch in there somewhere.
Started out by straightening up the shop. Horizontal surfaces were all completely covered. Not anymore.
Made some zero clearance inserts for the Unisaw.
Finished getting the Unisaw all set up, dialed in, etc. It's now making sawdust!
Then I took care of a problem. With my current shop layout, there was no good place where I could set up the planer and be able to have enough space to run 8' long boards through. If it wasn't winter, I could just wheel it out into the driveway and run the boards through out there. But it's winter. So I built a riser for my planer that lifts it up higher than the table saw, outfeed table, and workbench heights. This will allow me to park the planer in front of the outfeed table and run boards up to 9' through without having to open the garage door.
Then I got some maple ready to run through the planer, which will be the first thing I do in the shop in the morning.
There's a kitchen hutch in there somewhere.
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The saw looks great Matt! I have the same planer and I set mine so that the out feed is just slightly higher than my table saw, that way the boards are supported as they come off and I get less snipe that way. And I dont have to catch the long boards as the come out.
Great work on the saw! Just cut a hole in the wall and you could plane a board as long as need.
Great work on the saw! Just cut a hole in the wall and you could plane a board as long as need.
My brother has his Oliver planner set up with an overhead garage door on the feed side and a widow on the other side for boards over 16' long. We did 22' footers when I was much younger. Don't think we could do it now days...
I'll admit that when I was working on it at 11:30 last night, I didn't even have that thought. But it makes sense and maybe someday I'll adjust my riser a bit to set it up like that. For right now I have it set to infeed over the table saw and outfeed table and outfeed toward the empty space/walkway to the overhead garage door because it's easier to hook it up to dust collection if it's orientated that way.
Yes, yes I did.
I only have a couple of blanks of old growth Brazilian rosewood and today I chipped the lip off a pot call I'd just finished. So I started looking around to find something as a jig to rework the pot call. I don't know what this was used for but I've repurposed it to make quick changes to pot call.
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