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Museum Victoria have been working closely with Alzheimer’s Australia and have produced a number of different kits designed for aged-care centres to simulate memories and discussions among the residents which has obvious benefits. The kits are borrowed from MV for 2 weeks (they are only $25 for the period) and include topics such as “Childhood [...]
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I was hoping to have a full set of photos of this pen construction – the first time I’ve tried making a BT-401 (a version of the Mont-Blanc pen style) from Carbatec in preparation for the demo day I’m putting on 31 July (last Saturday of the month) at Carbatec, Melbourne (10am-12pm) Thought I’d better [...]
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A little while ago I mentioned that Incra now has metric versions of the LS Positioner – something I was not expecting would actually ever exist, but now does! The big resistance has always been that router bits, and in particular dovetail bits were imperial and therefore would be incompatible with a metric positioner. In [...]
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I finally got a chance to finish off the glueless stool I started at the recent NTX show (components cut on the Torque Workcentre) After rounding over the edge of the seat on the router table, it was time for a little sanding. Still very impressed with how easy, relatively low noise, low vibration and [...]
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Some days, when sleep departs unexpectantly early, you can either roll over and try to ignore the cold morning air, or stupidly decide that it is a rare opportunity to get some things done in the shed. Like I did this morning. It was pretty cold out there – moreso because I don’t have insulation, [...]
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Came across some old photos (comparatively old that is) of the original shed Pouring the original slab beside the shed that was already on the property when the place was purchased. Note the rather new-looking Triton in the foreground. The back shed was the first, and in there I had the tablesaw, router table (Triton) [...]
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Been over in Australia for a little over 10 years now, and other than the occasional 100% pure NZ advert, I found the thing that really made me long for the hills of NZ was discovering today I was in a more foreign country where it came to language than I realised. I’m still pretty [...]
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Ideal Tools have just opened an on-line clearance store for new, used, returned, shop soiled, discontinued etc products, offered between 15% and 50% off retail (the majority between 15% and 25% off, depending on whether or not they are new or lightly used). So if you are particularly enamoured with Festool and cannot afford the [...]
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Just topped 60 subscribers to the blog (and who knows how many iTunes podcast subscribers – a fair few!) Not a huge number, but a. it hasn’t been on offer for very long, and b. these are readers so get to see every post delivered directly to their email (those numbers don’t count towards the [...]
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Episode 60 Festool BS105E Belt Sander Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv)
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I was over at the Uni’s Facilities workshops, and was given a quick tour of the woodworking one (appreciated!) No photos as yet – will have to take a camera over another time. From memory, they have in there (mostly 3 phase): 24″ bandsaw CNC panel saw 12″ tablesaw 15″ jointer 24″ thicknesser Massive belt [...]
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