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The Story of a Stick. The Story Stick has been a useful tool for 100s of years, for recording and transferring measurements, without the need for a rule or tape measure. In its simplest form, it was nothing more than a straight stick, that had distances marked on it so there was consistency in lengths [...]
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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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Woodpeckers have recently been releasing tools called “One Time Tools”, being a limited edition one-off production run (well kind-of..they are being used to release something of curious appeal, or to test the market on a new development. This means that downtrack some may get repeated, but once the initial run is sold, there is no [...]
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I’m sitting here at 3 in the morning (the only time of the day I have time to think for myself!) contemplating the practicalities of shed layout. I keep asking myself why does this question keep cropping up (especially when I could be doing something more productive like a project (or at 3am like sleeping!)), [...]
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Episode 75 Wood River Spokeshave Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv)
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Probably way too cryptic-a-link to the movie “Girl, Interrupted”, but by the end of the move, I’m sure at least one person was ready for a rest in an asylum! I’m speaking of the launch today of the Professional Woodworkers Supplies website, at www.woodworksupplies.com.au The site still has the same (uninterrupted) web address, and kind-of [...]
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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 [...]
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The lesser-known cousin of the Sabretooth Tiger, the Staggertooth was a widely misunderstood animal until the advent of modern man-made materials, when its real purpose finally became obvious. The staggertooth router bit is used for fast-routing particularly tough man-made abrasive materials such as MDF, plywood and particle board where speed is paramount and cut quality [...]
Filed under: Techniques, Tools | Tagged: Balance, PWS, Router, Single Flute, Speed, Staggertooth, Whiteside | Leave a Comment »
A technique straight from the oil fields, there are ways of drilling around a corner when it is needed. It requires a unique drill bit to achieve it, with cutting surfaces on the face, side and even the back of this drill bit, which could be described as a specialised forsner bit. In this test, [...]
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One thing that I like going to a woodshow for, is seeing all the new products that are (or soon will be) available. The “Alternate Woodshow” is no exception – Professional Woodworkers Supplies have quite a number of brand-new products they will be showcasing (along with a whole heap of other recent additions over the [...]
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