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What's the next toy.. errr tool?
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I have two 3/8" bowl gouges and two 3/8" spindle gouges. The spindle gouge I use on every bowl to form the bevel on the tenon and then again to remove the final nub of the tenon. The 3/8" bowl gouges see action as finishing gouges and in tight spots.
I have that one, Dan. It's a great bandsaw for the price.
Yes , Looking forward to it. What are you using for a blade. Im sure the one that comes with it, is probably not the best.
I will be using it mostly to cut blanks from logs
I will be using it mostly to cut blanks from logs
Sticking my nose into the conversation: for cutting up log sections into blanks, with my 18" Rikon I use only 1/2" 3tpi Lenox blades for wood up to 12" thick. There are Lenox bandsaw shops all over, one near me, that can make any type, any size. The guy sometimes makes one as I wait but I usually order ahead of time and get 8 or 10 at once.
You may have already seen this but if not and you are interested, I did a video on using the bandsaw to make blanks from log sections. It was for a Zoom pandemic demo. I had to leave out a lot so it's a little short on the details of successful drying.
Making useful turning blanks from logs
My āLogs to Blanksā video shows how I use a shop bandsaw to make useful turning blanks from log sections. I almost always turn wood so I include a little information on drying. I made this video during the Covid pandemic for a club Zoom meeting demo. Itās long, about 45 minutes, but itās a...
JKJ
I use the Lennox bimetal blades. The big saw has a 1 1/4 wide by teeth at 3/4 inch apart. Best for cutting slabs. My little saw has 1/2 inch with 3 tpi. This one is for cutting circles.
robo hippy
robo hippy
John, Thatās a great video! Very informative for a newbie band saw user. Looking forward to its day of arrival !
My 5/8ā BGās (Thompson/Jamieson, Crown Razor m42 parabolic) have ~12ā handles for leverage when roughing stuff out. No 1/2ā shaft BG, mine drop down to 3/8ā, they have ~8ā handle, as do all the other tools except a couple of larger scrapers that are a bit longer. Long handles on smaller tools do get in the way.
New shop tool?
This is mine, a very recent addition, a Yamaha P525 digital piano.
Why is it good in the shop? So I can stretch and exercise my fingers when taking a break. (Helps with finger cramps that old people sometimes get when holding lathe tools too long) To practice on a whim without walking up the hill to the house. To play loudly, even in the middle of the night, without disturbing the family with the Baldwin in the house. To entertain visitors so they'll give me money. (ha, joke) So I can compose and practice arrangements and variations in private with abandon. The llamas and peacocks next to the shop don't seem to mind.
And yes, I do use a good dust cover.
I have racks of pro midi keyboards and synthesizers in storage above the garage but they take up too much space. In case no one else has noticed, shop space tends toward limited ...
This is the 3rd one I've tried in the shop and has the best piano action (extremely important) and best sound without spending $4000. For variety, in the little shop office are a guitar, violin, harmonicas, melodica, and cornet. And over 4000 songs on the computer sound system. A shop is good for the life. Music is good for the soul.
Extra musical tidbit, unrelated to the shop: my piano bench in the house is a good conversation piece - it's the actual bench Billy Joel sat on when in concert here in the late '70s.
JKJ
This is mine, a very recent addition, a Yamaha P525 digital piano.
Why is it good in the shop? So I can stretch and exercise my fingers when taking a break. (Helps with finger cramps that old people sometimes get when holding lathe tools too long) To practice on a whim without walking up the hill to the house. To play loudly, even in the middle of the night, without disturbing the family with the Baldwin in the house. To entertain visitors so they'll give me money. (ha, joke) So I can compose and practice arrangements and variations in private with abandon. The llamas and peacocks next to the shop don't seem to mind.
And yes, I do use a good dust cover.
I have racks of pro midi keyboards and synthesizers in storage above the garage but they take up too much space. In case no one else has noticed, shop space tends toward limited ...
This is the 3rd one I've tried in the shop and has the best piano action (extremely important) and best sound without spending $4000. For variety, in the little shop office are a guitar, violin, harmonicas, melodica, and cornet. And over 4000 songs on the computer sound system. A shop is good for the life. Music is good for the soul.
Extra musical tidbit, unrelated to the shop: my piano bench in the house is a good conversation piece - it's the actual bench Billy Joel sat on when in concert here in the late '70s.
JKJ
I must have seen that bench. In college in 1973 in Durham, NC, friend took me to a concert in Raleighāsaid he had heard that this new guy was pretty good. As students we had cheap seats way back in the auditorium where he played, but since only about a dozen people came to the concert, Billy Joel had us all come on stage and sit around him as he played. Cold Spring Harbor was his first album and I think Piano Man was about to come out. It was amazing.
Very cool! Incredibly amazing and I'm jealous - I wish I could have been a accidental Billy Joel groupie! I was impressed at one of his concerts when he jumped off the stage and ran up and down the central isle interacting with people!
But you may have seen a different bench. If what they told me at the Baldwin store was correct, Joel didn't travel with a bench but rented the one I now have, just for that concert. (It's a concert bench with the height adjustment knobs on either side.) After that, it was "used" so they sold it to me at a discount. I bought a 7' Baldwin grand at the same time so with that and Joel's rental fee I don't think they lost any money! Both the bench and the piano have served me well over nearly the last half century. Prob the best purchase of my life (besides a certain ring, of course!)
Here it is sometime in the '90s. (I and my siblings were raised by parents who strongly believed that music education was just as important as reading, writing, and arithmetic!)
JKJ
Well, the next tool ended up being a Jet AFS 1000b air filter. Just got home with it.
They had a good price on them at the local wood store and I had a gift card I'd won from my clubs president challenges that made it an even better price so hopefully cleaner air is in my future.
They had a good price on them at the local wood store and I had a gift card I'd won from my clubs president challenges that made it an even better price so hopefully cleaner air is in my future.
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Just bought a new to me Oneway 2436 from a club member. I didn't realize the difference between it and my old Delta DL 40 that was heavily modified. Very happy with it. The Oneway had less than 150 items turned on it and it shows. I added a 17" bed extension and extra banjo to the outboard side...Cant wait for Christmas vacation when I can spend much of a week on it!
I'd love to have a one way banjo but I checked the price and got scared,
I am starting to replace my equipment before retirement. Next is a bandsaw upgrade...will have to save some more first though!
I bought a small Rikon scroll saw on sale at Woodcraft for $180. I don't need anything heavy duty.
Have some new Vessi shoes on the way. The ones I wear daily are 3 years old and you can almost see through the bottom.