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Took me a while to get around to setting up a photographic website again – longer than you’d expect actually, and in part it is the reason Stu’s Shed exists at all. I even meant to start 1 Jan, but it took most of January for me to do so. Back in 1999, made my [...]
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During my recent update of the Tools page, I was surprised to note that I hadn’t actually made direct mention of some of my favourite markup tools in the workshop – the Incra Rules. The underlying principle of these rules is they have extremely accurately drilled holes at every measurement point, which are just the [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Techniques, Tools | Tagged: Decimal, Imperial, Incra, Incra Rule, Markup | 1 Comment »
I’ve been running through the different tools that can be mounted to the Torque Workcentre, getting a feel for the pros and cons for each, and just some of the ways the TWC brings a different element to each of them. The more I play with the tool, the more I get to iron out [...]
Filed under: Tools | Tagged: Crosscut, Drill, RIP, Router, Saw, Surfacing, Torque, Triton, TWC, Walko | 1 Comment »
I was initially thinking of titling this entry “Blade Care”, but I’m aware that this is not the best way to protect the blades, so will keep that title for the refined solution! Blades should be stored vertically, and since the inaugural “Battle of the Blades“, I’ve had them sitting in their boxes on a [...]
Filed under: Tools | Tagged: Blade Storage, CMT, Combo, Crosscut, Freud, Linbide, RIP, Thin Kerf | 3 Comments »
Have just completed a significant update to the Tools page – I was a few months behind in adding links to articles that specifically highlight aspects of a tool. Some are dedicated reviews, others I include because they reveal the character of a tool through use or a modification etc. There are now 228 items [...]
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After playing around with the ability to angle tools to the workpiece on the Torque yesterday, I’ve had another thought. I was chatting to Larry (Lazy Larry (QLD)) about surfacing and it is very much trial and error to get the cutting plane of the surface mill bit parallel to the X & Y directions [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Tools | Tagged: Angle, Incra, Miter, Torque, TWC | Leave a Comment »
I was trying out some of the other abilities of the Torque today – angling the router and the drill, but for some reason I found the ability to rotate the tool became problematic, to the extent that I took the carriage apart to see where the problem was. I was getting some scoring between [...]
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Firstly, the next addition to my collection will be available soon – the ETS 150/5 eccentric sander in systainer. It comes with a bonus 50 disks, and I’ve ordered the other bonus which is another 100 disks at 1/2 price. To keep them all neat, I’ve also decided on the systainer with insert for sanding [...]
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Being my daughter’s 3rd birthday, today was a complete switch of focus away from the shed/woodworking.
Filed under: Shed | Tagged: Family | 1 Comment »
I guess from recent articles that you’ve been able to determine my opinion of the Torque Workcentre! With the Christmas madness coming to an end for another year, I’m going to (please, hopefully), have some more time to get some new videos made, and the Torque will definitely be featured in some of those! In [...]
Filed under: Tools | Tagged: Incra, PWS, Torque, Wixey, Woodpeckers | 5 Comments »
