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Over the past 4 months or so, I was becoming increasingly concerned about the Torque Workcentre, people’s purchasing experiences, lack of communication (particularly given just how invested I had been in it for a few years). Not too much time has past though, it seems. My last article I wrote before the speedbump has only [...]
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There are a lot of rules out there these days: steel rules, plastic, wooden, anodised aluminium, acrylic. In my workshop, I have a number of examples, most are getting very dusty. The two that are not are quality offerings from Woodpeckers, and a new one from Australian Wood Review ($49) is vying for a place [...]
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15 months ago I started a project, creating a display board of my collection of Naval items. It has been a bit of a long haul- not overly difficult, just for some reason I stopped early on, and didn’t find the motivation to knock the project off. You could say the project started 15 years [...]
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Always surprising just how much I remember about the Torque Workcentre when I get started (either that or I just talk too much!) at the Berwick Woodworkers club today. With about 10 interested members registered, we jumped straight into various aspects of the machine, from fine tuning, degrees of freedom, mounting tools, mounting work to [...]
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If I hadn’t been kicked out of the Festool ‘aficionado’ already for hacking into the boom arm of the dust collector, this may push them over the edge Take 1x Festool Systainer. Now granted the lid of this systainer has already suffered some wilful damage, but what I’ve done next puts the icing on the [...]
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Regulars of this site would have déjà vu with this photo but it is new. My daughter has kinder tomorrow morning, and I wanted these ready for delivery. They have been receiving various running repairs after having being subjected to about the greatest force of nature known to man. No, not cyclones, wildfire/bush fire or [...]
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Knobs. Used on tools and jigs, but what sort do you need? Some are male, some female. Simple enough. But still a pain, especially if you have a knob of one type and you need the other version! Of course Woodpeckers have solved that problem. Called the Multi-knob, an it is a whole $2 each [...]
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Is the quintessential ‘shed’ on the endangered species list? I’ve just been out, looking at a few properties, each more expensive than the last. In each and every case there was a common theme. Zero unused land. If you managed 2 pushes of an unpowered lawn mower you’d have overdone it. No land for a [...]
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On the road again – Just can’t wait to get on the road again. The life I love is making sawdust with my friends And I can’t wait to get on the road again. Looks like I’m off to the Ballarat Wood Show on the 31st March-1st April 2012. This year, instead of being a [...]
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I can’t recall how I came across this unit (probably something I read on Twitter), but it looked really well done. Unfortunately the $3000 odd price tag knocks it right out of the ballpark for the vast majority of us. But anyway, ignoring that minor point, this would look awesome on a Festool Kapex setup, [...]
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The Wood Whisperer pretty much nailed the description for this: Crazy Awesome! To explain what is happening here, the device (highly modified record player) uses a veneer slice of tree trunk as the record and takes information from the timber to control rhythm and tempo For more detail, click here and a lot more detail [...]
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I was down at my daughter’s kindergarten last night- after the cleaners and painters had done their thing over the Xmas break, all the rolls of carpet and kids’ furniture and toys had been stacked, so was doing my bit putting them back in the main room. (Furniture being play fridges, play ironing boards, play [...]
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