Recent content by Woodsmith

Asian Guys chopping their hands off, suicide bombers whatever next? On a brighter side at least he can get a manicure half price :lol:

I hate wearing masks in hot weather - its hard enough to breathe without sticking a sauna on yer face. I suppose its easy to say pipper it and not wear a mask but depends on what you are cutting! MDF gives off a very fine dust which coats everything and the reason it was banned in the USA was...

Well my view is that it doesnt hurt to spend a few minutes honing up between sharpening to givew a decent finish, after a few honings maybe then its time for a resharpen. Had anyone considered that the extra friction caused by dull tools may cause extra strain on the motors and shorten the life...

I use a router these days its quicker to set up. I have 2 Elu routers but prefer the smaller 97E to the 177E as you can use it one handed - I only use the larger machine for kitchen worktops. I dont like to invert routers under tables though as I used to do it with my 96E before I sold it...

Stevezm you hit the nail on the head - those were fairly gloomy days after 3 years training and hard work as a woodmachinist and toolroom technician and earning the wages of a cleaner. I do get annoyed at peoples attitudes towards manual workers. I am sure that anyone who has worked in the field...

Maybe some of you people may remember Reg Prescott (kenny Everett) he managed to cut his fingers off every week and was a DIY disaster. Nearest I have seen to that in real life was a chap who came to work in a joinery shop after running a 4 sider. The spindle moulder he was on must have been...

I like coming here because I have to think about things that I havent thought about for years. I know that you have probably got sorted out by now but the ^ design is ideal for cutting laminates and aluminium general cross cutting of timber etc the angled tooth design limit the amount of break...

When I was fresh out of training and I was a smartass as everything was fresh in my mind, I changed jobs and obviously didnt get along with the chargehand. He was well overdue for retirement and knew it all because he had operated a spindle moulder for some 30 - 40 years (seems that is policy in...

Hi guys, well I started out as a woodmachinist and retrained due to the poor salary that companies offered. I have experiences kickback even with riving knives so I guess he is taking some risks - not to mention breaking the law. I have also worked with blokes with their finger tips missing. I...

Are you boys carpenters? OK heres how its done! the direction of the router cutter spins in a clockwise direction as you look from above! with a 30 mm collet and 1/2" cutter you always keep the face side of the joint to the left of the machine as you look down. hence on some cuts the worktop has...