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Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 2/15/2011, 1:43 am
In Response To: Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop *PIC* (Malcolm Schweizer)

: Hello Matt,

: All the sawdust making (the big stuff) is done outside except if I
: need to fine tune something small on the bandsaw which goes well
: enough with the 5hp shop vac. The bandsaw also rolls outside on
: casters if I need to do any serious cuts. I have a Ridgid
: portable contractor saw and a portable thickness planer. All
: butt-joints and miters are done by hand and I sweep up after
: each one. Pretty much once I rip the wood to size I use hand
: tools from there on.

: I have in the past glassed inside but never again. Epoxy fumes are
: not good for ya!

: Here's what I did to cover my mistake- I just epoxied the hole and
: then ran the existing inlay around the leash cup, which was what
: I was contemplating anyway. I rough-cut the abalone, mounted it
: to a dremel mandrel, and spun it on an emory board to make it
: perfectly round, then I rough cut the center and used a dremel
: to dress it up to fit just right over the leash cup. I goop on
: some epoxy and then once it cures I file it down flush and then
: final sand the board.

5 hp shop vac??!! WOW, might as well have a V8 :)

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Malcolm Schweizer -- 2/14/2011, 10:23 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Farback -- 2/14/2011, 11:01 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Matt Brammer -- 2/14/2011, 11:15 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop *PIC*
Malcolm Schweizer -- 2/14/2011, 11:57 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/15/2011, 1:43 am
clarification- not a pilot hole, a vent hole.
Malcolm Schweizer -- 2/14/2011, 11:22 pm
Re: clarification- not a pilot hole, a vent hole.
Bill Hamm -- 2/15/2011, 1:50 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/15/2011, 1:41 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Robert N Pruden -- 2/15/2011, 9:50 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/16/2011, 12:39 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Robert N Pruden -- 2/16/2011, 9:33 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2011, 1:33 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Robert N Pruden -- 2/17/2011, 8:52 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2011, 12:58 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Robert N Pruden -- 2/17/2011, 1:20 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2011, 1:33 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Robert N Pruden -- 2/17/2011, 1:57 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2011, 2:55 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Mike Savage -- 2/15/2011, 4:46 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/16/2011, 12:41 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
John Roberts -- 2/15/2011, 7:51 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Etienne Muller - ireland -- 2/16/2011, 6:35 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Robert N Pruden -- 2/16/2011, 11:59 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Fred Gasper -- 2/16/2011, 1:10 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Malcolm Schweizer -- 2/16/2011, 11:15 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2011, 1:36 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Etienne Muller - ireland -- 2/17/2011, 4:53 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Malcolm Schweizer -- 2/16/2011, 11:12 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2011, 1:39 am
Re: Shop: You do need a system
ancient kayaker -- 2/17/2011, 6:02 pm
Re: Shop: You do need a system
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2011, 7:10 pm
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2011, 1:34 am
Re: Shop: You don't need a big workshop
Scott Baxter -- 2/20/2011, 7:28 pm