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    Don’t watch this

    Oh, the clickbaits have made their way into the forums now as well. Thought they were a youtube-only thing. Regarding the drill jig itself I'm not very impressed.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    OK, the front apron cut out is done starting around the 16min mark in this video. But, for the joint to be invisible some luck and the right board for the job is needed. Grainmatch on the sides of the drawer is the "simple thing" since this is predictable, to have it invisible in the rip lines a...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    Thanks! I started with an over wide apron (approx 10mm material outside the bars), routed grooves for the metal bars and screwed these in place. With the bars in place I could after that go really thin on the dimension, sent the apron through the planer a few times until I had about 1.5mm...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    Writing desk for a customer. European ash, grain matched drawer cut out from front apron via a few steps. Turned out quite nice. I tried my best to keep the apron height down but still having a usable drawer height, as a tall apron on a writing desk is not desirable. Recessed 15×15mm solid metal...
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    Has anybody tried a trend t8 router yet? + trend t8 vs triton tra001

    I have had my Dewalt 625 25+ years and a (two) Triton TRA001 a few years. To me the Dewalt is much higher build quality, Triton overall feels more plastic. My first Triton was returned due to severe vibration problem straight out of the box. Replacement not as good as my Dewalt either in that...
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    Table Saw kickback and trimmed finger (Graphic description & images)

    Peronally I have a 350mm wheel small variant from Sweden with very stable one piece cast iron frame. With the right blade it's an excellent ripper. Don't live in uk so have problems to recommend something for you, but I guess there are plenty of bandsaw threads on this forum, or start a new one.
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    Tormek 2000 Vs Robert Sorby pro edge

    I'm well aware of the difference between the truing tool and the (totally meaningless) dressing stone which makes a difference for about 10 seconds. My friend didn't believe me either when I said it took one hour so I let him give it a try on his Tormek. He ended up around 50 minutes. I see...
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    Table Saw kickback and trimmed finger (Graphic description & images)

    Scary accident, thanks for sharing and reminding us of the dangers. A lot of talk about push sticks. I instead do almost all solid wood ripping on the bandsaw, that way you avoid nearly all those narrow cuts where the push stick doesn't really fit between the blade guard and the fence. Also...
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    Tormek 2000 Vs Robert Sorby pro edge

    Was that answer to me? The 1 hour on the PMW11 thick bevel up blade started with the stone truing tool, think I used it halfway through as well. The problem with these thick wide blades is that the surface area is so big that the grinding pressure/mm2 becomes really small, and it seems the...
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    Tormek 2000 Vs Robert Sorby pro edge

    The major downside of the Tormek is the speed, it takes forever to get a new bevel on a wide thick plane iron. And when I say forever I mean it. The bevel up blade for my Veritas shooting plane took about 1 hour of constant grinding with some small pauses. I was extremely frustrated at times and...
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    Router templates using saw scoring method

    I learned this from another swedish guy a couple of years ago. Did quite some searching before making a video about it and this method doesn't seem very well known. It's maybe not new in any way, but I think it deserved a video. Since I learned this method I use it for almost all router...
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    Glueing box joint

    If it's not too thin material and/or very tight boxjoints it can work to place the clamps inside the fingers. If I need to place clamps directly over the fingers I make some "clamping cauls" for this at the same time as I cut the boxjoints. The cauls let me clamp directly over the fingers. The...
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    Impressive new tool

    It's nice but I'm not super excited about it. It feels like a compromise, missing one of the major axises. If going this route I would go full CNC instead. For boxjoints, the table saw is superior, keyhole slot routing and biscuit slot cutting (in only one direction)...? Not something you do...
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    Personalised markings for items you have made

    I started out with burn stamp with my logo but after a few tries I considered that too high risk, you only get one shot at it and often when the project is done so mistakes are hard to repair. Nowadays I use custom coins with my logo, ordered from Aliexpress a few years ago, didn't cost that...
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    Wood tearout

    It's this one here (picture), comes in different diameters and widths. Brand is swedex and their blades are sold through different channels though not easily accesable for non company customers. Link below is to one of the stores selling these blades...
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