Woodworking
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Soygen
The Dirty Dozen For the Price of One
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If this is the same guy I'm thinking of, he has a hilarious video of him laying out his concrete foundation in his basement on his own. Almost ends up killing himself. I like that dude.
stupidmonkey
Not Smrt
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Bandwagon
Kolohe
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I just went with a harbor freight special, central machinery. I think its a 2hp 35gal.
I was looking at a nicer one on rockler for like 18 months but it feels a little overboard for me. I really just need something for the cnc and the planer. The shop vacuum was fine for the other tools.
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I started out with one of those years ago. They work fine as long as you keep the cloth filter bag somewhat clean or it gets clogged up with fine dust. Every couple of times you empty it, remove the filter bag, turn it inside out, and blow it out with your leaf blower.
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Captain Suave
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
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Just be aware with the cloth bag style dust collectors that they actually can make your shop air worse with regard to super-fine particulates that are the most dangerous. Think of them as cleaning but not filtering. Air quality is a deep rabbit hole and some folks definitely go overboard, but on the other side silicosis is no fun. The best solution, if possible, seems to be large scale venting. I have garage doors on both the front and back of my shop space and just leave them open to the wind and leaf blow everything out when I finish work.
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Cutlery
Kill All the White People
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Think I found my first nightstand tabletop.
It's 17"x25" and off by about 1/8" over the length of the piece. But 25" is bigger than I need it to be, so I'm gonna be able to remove that extra bit and it'll be perfect.
Ironically, it's one of the pieces the mill completely fucked up and was an inch and a half on one end and about half inch on the other. Just lopped off that end of the slab and surfaced this and it came out pretty good.
It's 17"x25" and off by about 1/8" over the length of the piece. But 25" is bigger than I need it to be, so I'm gonna be able to remove that extra bit and it'll be perfect.
Ironically, it's one of the pieces the mill completely fucked up and was an inch and a half on one end and about half inch on the other. Just lopped off that end of the slab and surfaced this and it came out pretty good.
Cutlery
Kill All the White People
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After drying outside for 3 years, these came out remarkably straight for giving zero shits about grain or the part of wood that it is and just slabbing the whole fucking log.
This one is 19x56 and over 2 inches thick rough. Gonna make an excellent coffee table for someone
This one is 19x56 and over 2 inches thick rough. Gonna make an excellent coffee table for someone
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