Any woodworkers?

I've been meaning to add that to my list here.. bought a fancy sharpener when I bought the saw.. it's in the box.


Any photos or plans or information on the kiln you're building?

 

If anyone is familiar with this year/model, is it any good? Grizzly heavy duty wood lathe G1495 - tools - by owner - sale (craigslist.org)

 

I was wondering about the 3/4 HP, but lathe work isn't my schtick, but I've wanted to learn. Think I'd grow out of it quickly if I'm into it?

 

3/4 is good, I started out on a 1/3 HP.

 

Quality tools is a must. Just depends what projects you are doing.

 

So true! I wasted a decade thinking it just was worthless as a woodworker until I upgraded my table saw. That opened the floodgates! Now I’m broke… lol

 

This buy-once, cry-once logic gets me into trouble. I was in the camp of telling folks you can build anything with near to nothing a 2nd hand beater tools…skip to a Sawstop and too many LN hand tools. I hold that such tools aren’t absolutely necessary; but, hot damn is woodworking so much more enjoyable now.

 

And quality clamps...lots of them!

 

I bought a decent Stanley Jack plane a couple decades ago but never had much luck with it. Fast forward to recently when I started my binge, LN planes are freakin amazing. I can make my old Stanley work much better now, but it’ll never cut as nice as the LN planes.

 

photos to come. It’s a large wood box with foam insulation. It will have a heater, dehumidifier and fans. Super simple.

 

Couple more boards in work, first one is smaller

 

That's too bad about the book cut on the left hand walnut pieces.

 

found some old pics of it.




I honestly don’t remember how long I left it running for.. it’s been 3 or 4 years since I used it. The idea was for it to be easy to break down and put away, yet ironically it’s still sitting on my mini ramp.

I know I didn’t leave it on for more than a couple days.

I’ve only used it (and my chainsaw mill) with red oak.

 

Nice! Thanks for posting!

 

I used a lathe for the first time a few months ago and it was awesome. I think I did a decent job and got the hang of some simple things pretty quickly. Really fun. I think I got spoiled as the guy had a Jet lathe with a digital speed controller. It was nice to dial down the speed when rough gouging a blank, then dial it up to round it. If I had space...

 

That would be a good starter lathe to learn on. You'll make a lot of stuff with it and if you decide you really like turning you may upgrade from it some day. That's a good price for it. When I first started turning and was looking for a lathe I would have bought that one. Good thing about Grizzly stuff is you have customer support and parts availability.

 

That's cool.

How did you monitor temperature and moisture content?

 

Super stoked to find this gem of a thread. Wanted to share a few posts.

here’s a farm style table I made for a Christmas gift for my mother last year. Made out of 140 year old cypress 2x3s and 4s that were from an old cotton gin in Mississippi. Filled the old nail holes and imperfections with clear epoxy. Picture does not do it justice.