Hadrian
31st August 2012, 06:23 AM
Hello everybody,
Let me introduce myself. I live in Canada, Ottawa soon to move to Canberra.
I occasionaly produce saw dust. Usually solid wood pieces stating with rough sawn wood. Nothing too fancy, just clean lines. I'm using some enty level power tools most notably a modified old Craftsman table saw, a Busy bee old jointer, a Festool saw/table combo and a Freud router.
I'm contemplating replacing some/all these to hand tools. As my grandfather was a carpenter and he never plugged a tool in an outlet in his life I have a lot of respect for that and I kind of partially remember how it works. I also remember the lack of noise and virtually lack of dust which at this point is fairly abundant in my workshop garage.
I'm currently finishing a simple coffee table. The legs come from the firewood I split last year, the apron from some recovered hardwood flooring and the top from some thick and wide marple planks I got from a local portable sawmill guy. I just missed some spalted stuff due to some travel otherwise the table would have been good looking. This thing weights a tonne and it does not shake despite not being glued yet. I had to use my circ saw for the final crosscut after glueing the top. I seemed unsafe to do it on the table saw (despite it's heavy cast iron).
That's it for now.
Hadrian
Let me introduce myself. I live in Canada, Ottawa soon to move to Canberra.
I occasionaly produce saw dust. Usually solid wood pieces stating with rough sawn wood. Nothing too fancy, just clean lines. I'm using some enty level power tools most notably a modified old Craftsman table saw, a Busy bee old jointer, a Festool saw/table combo and a Freud router.
I'm contemplating replacing some/all these to hand tools. As my grandfather was a carpenter and he never plugged a tool in an outlet in his life I have a lot of respect for that and I kind of partially remember how it works. I also remember the lack of noise and virtually lack of dust which at this point is fairly abundant in my workshop garage.
I'm currently finishing a simple coffee table. The legs come from the firewood I split last year, the apron from some recovered hardwood flooring and the top from some thick and wide marple planks I got from a local portable sawmill guy. I just missed some spalted stuff due to some travel otherwise the table would have been good looking. This thing weights a tonne and it does not shake despite not being glued yet. I had to use my circ saw for the final crosscut after glueing the top. I seemed unsafe to do it on the table saw (despite it's heavy cast iron).
That's it for now.
Hadrian