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The start of the 4th annual woodworking bloggers’ Safety Week is Monday, and I was wondering what to contribute to this year’s offerings. However, after spilling claret, and being referred to as “the chainsaw guy” in the ER, I guess I found something to write about after all. Not as serious as it sounds- the [...]
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Picked up this chainsaw from Clayton Mowers yesterday in preparation for slabbing on the Torque Workcentre. It is electric, which has advantages and disadvantages. Limited to a 16″ blade, it is 2000w, or the equivalent of a 2.8HP / 45cc petrol. That is still pretty punchy so it’ll be interesting to see how well it [...]
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It’s only been 4 months since I got this set of steak knives from Professional Woodworker Supplies. That is a pretty quick turnaround time for me these days! Everything hasn’t gone to plan though, as I will elaborate, but I got close to achieving a good result. I don’t like accepting a compromise – it [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Project, Techniques, Timber | Tagged: 1000SE, African Rosewood, Araldite, Bandsaw, Bolster, Carbatec, Dimensioning, Drill, Drum Sander, Electron Murderer, Epoxy, Incra, Knife, MagFence, MagSwitch, Professional Woodworker Supplies, Resaw, Resin, Rivet, Rockwell, ROS, Sarge, Scales, Tang, Template, Thicknesser | Leave a Comment »
A recent video showed briefly the Colt Twinland Brad Point drill bit. These have an interesting feature in the double helix of the design which makes for a much better guidance, either down the hole as it is being drilled, or in a drilling jig. It has excellent chip clearance, which makes for a cleaner [...]
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Episode 82 Work Sharp Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)
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The closing date for votes is rapidly approaching (Friday I think), and the latest entries have only just been uploaded (something to do with Easter interference!) All entries can be seen here And votes are made by emailing the number of your choice to admin@woodreview.com.au If you are struggling to choose which shed to vote [...]
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If a tree falls at the inlaw’s house, I certainly paid attention! The tree had to come down- it wasn’t doing very well, but it had a fair amount of timber in it, and the trunk had (has) a decent thickness. Given I was looking for a trunk to test out the slabbing capabilities of [...]
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Episode 81 It’s Time Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)
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A (fair) few years ago, I made a cupboard for the kitchen, and to do the job right, commissioned vinyl wrapped drawer fronts and cupboard doors (and they were not particularly cheap). I’ve discovered recently that despite the cost outlay, and getting them commercially made (by Schiffer Manufacturing, which no longer seems to exist except [...]
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The Sword Saw was a device made and wielded by the gnomes, being either steam powered or magically enchanted in AD&D. Seemingly incredulous even in a fantasy environment, let alone a woodworking workshop! But there are real Sword Saws, and there are more than I realised, all for the workshop. Other than the SSP200, Protool [...]
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About a year or so ago, Woodpeckers stopped making aluminium router plate inserts to making plastic ones. There was a cost saving, and also a durability gain (the plastic ones don’t become potentially unusable if dropped on a hard shed floor). However, I must admit a personal regret about the decision to abandon the aluminium [...]
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Mafell is a German company producing some interesting portable tools. One is a variation on the Sword Saw by Protool The other is a portable bandsaw. Be very cool, if it wasn’t around $US5000! Looks very suited to being fitted to the Torque Workcentre however
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