Recent posts
- shop log, the washer month continued
The lamp trick works the week you're already annoyed. It doesn't work the week the washers fit. Do the gib when a cut goes wrong, not when…
- shop log, october, mostly sweeping
A washer that fits is a finished part. The gib will still be there on a weeknight when you're irritated enough to do it properly.
- for sale: pile of 3/4 holders, Spokane, cash
I'll take them at 80. I can be in the Valley Thursday after work. I'll message you a time so we don't do this in the thread like it's 2004.…
- rivet ate a shop rag, update nobody asked for
Correct forum. Hope he passes it and you get a boring update.
- what are you making that isn't a test bar
I realized last month that everything on the bench was a test cut or a tool to make a tool. Curious what people are actually finishing. A p…
- february was the furnace, not the lathe
The November thread can wait. Gates can't. No one is keeping score.
- the shaper I said I wouldn't buy
Update, because I said I would. It runs. The ram has a knock I don't love. I made one key for a shaft and then went back to the lathe, whic…
- the shaper I said I wouldn't buy
Bought the shaper. It was cheap because it doesn't run, which I knew, and because it needs a truck and a friend, which I also knew. It's in…
- building a qctp because I refuse phase II prices
Used it all month. Holds height better than the rocker, which is not a high bar. Thanks Piotr. I'm not painting it. Paint would be admittin…
- building a qctp because I refuse phase II prices
Been gone. Kid was born in May and the shop was a shelf for two months. Dovetail is recut. It locks. The handle is a bit of 4140 that looks…
- acme thread, should I even start
Bought the screw. It fits. The weekend stayed a weekend. I'll cut one when a catalog can't, and not before, which is a sentence I should em…
- building a qctp because I refuse phase II prices
The dovetail is drunk. Piotr, if you're around: how much error before I should just mill it off and start the block over? It's a shaper cut…