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"You don't speak for me."
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I have a very similar Rockwell beaver saw. Rescued it from the Trochu dump, and put a 1 HP motor on it. It is hard to find good nine-inch blades.
Love this. Thanks Kate! Bought my Rockwell Beaver in ca 1974! Lent it to my son about 25 years ago and was thrilled when it never came back! Was so heavy and was never aligned right..my fault.
If you’re needing to curve those pieces, I have a couple of 8 foot electric heating elements I can lend you.
Where’s the empty beer cans??
Nice rednecking there. ~:D
A little Evaporust could be your friend there, they sell it in buckets at Princess Auto. Lay a towel on the top, run a parts washer pump on it for a while, brand new shiny top.
I have a younger vintage Rockwell Beaver lathe I bought new when I was a kid, tells you how freakin’ old I am. ~:D
Probably out of place here but, the first image that came to mind when I saw your set-up was mother’s vintage Singer treadle sewing machine. Skinny supports, but heavy at the working zone.
What?
No sawhorses or short step ladders as supports?
Cinder blocks and 4x8s make good levellers too. Aw hell, that’s westcoast engineering style anyways.
Heh. Multi-use grooming tables!
Huh?? I wish my setup was half that nice. Usually put the saw (no stand) on the driveway then use milk crates to support the work.
No one else in my wife’s family does wood-working. The heirloom Atlas Tools table saw and drill press are in the garage.
I need more excuses to make sawdust, they’re a dream to work with.
I echo that you’ve got a great setup there.
20 years ago I had a friend rip a few boards to the right width for me. He was into table saw snobbery. His saw was built into a large table and he had a filthy expensive balanced blade that was about as loud as an electric toothbrush. I then bought a cheap Chinese saw and since, everything than can break on it has broken. We should really have 100% duty on Chinese stuff to keep our dumps empty.
Thanks for showing us your ingenuity.R
Necessity is the mother of invention. And that’s one hell of a mutha of invention.
My woodshop teacher would have never stopped bellowing at you … “machines are NOT your friends”
But neither are extraordinarily long, awkward, klugey, pieces of laminate to cut. Those kind of projects are never your friend. And even require several friends to help guide through the blade. Happy you kept all your fingers.