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Saw an interesting product on “The New Inventors” tonight on ABC – the Rotabrade – a drum sander that attaches to your angle grinder. After seeing it in action, it looked like it had a decent amount of control (and compared to the Arbortech, control of some high speed sandpaper is NOT an issue, despite [...]
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One of the site’s regulars (Frank) pointed me to this fascinating video from 1932 of a Swedish Wagon Wheel Maker. It is old (obviously), jumpy (equally obviously) and really interesting to see how it used to be done! I couldn’t figure out how to embed the video here, so jump across to their site and [...]
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Just had an MC1000 Microclene Air Filtration unit arrive for me to evaluate from Microclene. It will be interesting to see what it can achieve, particularly compared to my current ‘shop air filtration unit. With a 100W motor, it can pass a 1000 cubic metres of air per hour through the unit for filtering, and [...]
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The Tattooed Woodworker makes some interesting observations in his classification of woodworkers. Where do I fit? I guess with a hint of regret, I’d have to fit into slot number 1. Almost my sum total of woodworking involves murdering electrons, with just a few scant visits to “The Dark Side” (or as Rob calls them [...]
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I was having a conversation recently with someone in the industry, and I made a comment about David Marks, and how he keeps so personally neat in the workshop. (When I head out there, no matter how careful I am, I guarantee I will get dust all over and thus why I ‘invented’ shed cologne [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Techniques | Tagged: David Marks, Gary Rogowski, Marc Spagnuolo, Mark Duginske, Norm Abram, Richard Vaughan, Sam Maloof, Tage Frid, The New Yankee Workshop, The Wood Whisperer, Wood Works | 4 Comments »
Things were able to progress faster than I was expecting – the Liquid Glass finish from www.photogloss.com.au was ready for the next stage by the following day (guess I got my mixture pretty right) The last step was pretty straightforward – fix the clock mechanism to the burl (only requires a single central nut on [...]
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