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I have a bosch ROS20vsc (or an older model of it) that works fine but Im looking for something faster, Ive been doing a lot of tables lately and sanding the tops it taking too long working up through the grits. Would one the dual mode sanders (like the 1250devs or ros65vc) work faster, ie use...

I have a powermatic 100 planer that Ive had for a few years and now Ive been using my grizzly 490x jointer with a spiral head I was thinking that I should upgrade to a byrd head on the planer too. Any reason I shouldn't pull the trigger on a byrd from holbren.com Anyone know of a promo code, I...

I am getting started turning more things since I have a newly made big lathe to play with. http://familywoodworking.org/forums/showthread.php?36232-Shop-built-large-lathe I made a ball turning jig and made a few balls from some largish scraps I had around. They came out pretty and I wanted to...

Several years ago I built a Pentz cyclone and blower. Well I'm going over my setup and I'm changing some stuff around and I see that my blower housing is not to the correct size. I believe that when I built it it was correct to the plans listed but now it seems that there was a redo of the info...

I just got one of these for my custom lathe I just built and noticed that there is quite a bit of runout on the jaws, the chuck body spins true but the jaws are obviously not true. I know that the jaws are only round at a certain opening and that is not what I'm talking about. If I chuck up a...

I'm thinking of building myself a serious lathe. I have an old jet lathe that's been good but it's just not big enough for large work. My original idea was to use some I beams for the bed then I got thinking why not make a oneway style lathe. So I started looking around and saw the Robust lathe...

Grizzly is moving out of PA and is having a moving sale. Sad that I won't be so close anymore. http://www.grizzly.com/events/2015/09/PA-Moving-Sale-2

I know this is the wood lathe area but I alread have a wood lathe and now I need a metal lathe. I don't know much about metal lathes so I don't know what to look for in one. I will be using it for miscellaneous stuff, making parts for the wood machinery I build, making replacement parts for old...

I decided october 9th 2014 that I should build myself a new bass, so I bought some pickups from eBay which lead to buying tuning machines, then an onboard preamp and bridge and strap locks and all the rest. So november 15th I started making some saw dust. These pics are in rough order of how...

The last upgrade I did was add a fence, its nothing fancy, just 3"x2" angle iron. I drilled both the 3" and 2" sides for bolts that slide in the T slots. I can have 3 different height fences just by changing the orientation of the fence. I really should change the piece of steel, this one is...

The main upgrade I did was to make this electronic variable speed. I replaced the stock 3/4hp 1 phase motor with a 3/4 3 phase from a booster pump. I wanted something bigger, I was looking for a 1.5hp motor but couldn't find one that was in decent shape. With the torque boost mode on the VFD...

I've had this drill press for a few years and have done some upgrades over the years. I thought I would show what I have done to it. The first thing I did was correct the quill slop that developed a year or so ago. I converted the regular head casting to a split casting by cutting through the...

I was finally fortunate enough to have someone pay me to build one of these. I think it turned out well. I laminated the bent sides over a male mold the pressed them with an air filled hose inside a female mold during the glue up.

I decided that I wanted a 20" disc sander... so I built one.

Here is the start of the case I built for it. For some reason when I am getting to the end of a project I seem to forget to take pictures, so this is all I have for now. I am going to have to borrow back the guitar and case and take a few nice finished pics. I used sure-ply plywood and hot...

the back got dyed black and the front got a sunburst. These are some various stages of experimentation of the burst.