Nice. I’ve wanted to buy one of those but I’m not investing that money in a house we’re renting.
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What's On Your Workbench?
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I have a Wen unit that's about the same size. I got it on the local used market for $60. Look around, you might find something. 
I can tell you that it cut down on the amount of dust settling on everything substantially, so it must be helping.
I can tell you that it cut down on the amount of dust settling on everything substantially, so it must be helping.
Dust collection is a big problem in the shop I share with my brother. We keep threatening to install a set of duct pipe to each machine.... and haven't. We have a Jet dust collector, but the Jet tablesaw has a typical contractor saw open back, so the dust port on the bottom is near useless, and hauling the dust hose around is a real PITA. The saw throws a fair amount up dust up too, a Biesemeyer style overhead blade guard/vacuum setup would probably work better. Every surface and every nook and crannie in the shop has a fine coating of dust on it. To really clean it at this point I'd more or less have to completely empty the shop and vacuum it all up, which is what I really should do... but probably won't. I can at least vacuum up the visible stuff I'm likely to disturb working, and gradually improve the situation. Hopefully this thing helps. I fired it up once, and damn, it moves a lot of air!
A mold of a bass body? You gonna’ post a “I made a bass out of resin and 3000 M&M’s” video?
Shameful waste of M&M’s by the way.
It's the new RichterScale Ultralite.
Made from my new proprietary Tonefoam.
Made from my new proprietary Tonefoam.
Finally got a better sized band saw 
. Picked it up off FB marketplace for one fifty, it needs new blade guides but the wheels are in great shape and the blade in it feels like it barely got used. Plus it's a one HP motor (much better than my harbor freight nine inch saw).
On another note, I also recently got the maple toped work cart in the background... So now all my guitar building tools are all organized and what not.
. Picked it up off FB marketplace for one fifty, it needs new blade guides but the wheels are in great shape and the blade in it feels like it barely got used. Plus it's a one HP motor (much better than my harbor freight nine inch saw).On another note, I also recently got the maple toped work cart in the background... So now all my guitar building tools are all organized and what not.
Nice score! Craftsman made a lot of different 12" bandsaws, that's probably the best one!
I need one.
It's nice that I can use the 14" delta at work, but it would be so much nicer if it lived at home.
I thought about buying a smaller saw that's more appropriate for work and asking them to trade me (I'm the only person who's used this saw in the 20 yrs they've had it), but the tallest it can resaw is 6" and I want the ability to resaw up to about 14".
So, the hunt is on.
It's nice that I can use the 14" delta at work, but it would be so much nicer if it lived at home.
I thought about buying a smaller saw that's more appropriate for work and asking them to trade me (I'm the only person who's used this saw in the 20 yrs they've had it), but the tallest it can resaw is 6" and I want the ability to resaw up to about 14".
So, the hunt is on.
The iron delta clones do OK with riser blocks. You can get better guides and nice fences for them. I had one set up like that years ago and was on the verge of doing another when I started to try to be honest with myself about costs. An iron delta clone in good shape with no problems is probably a $400+ saw, used. Then $100 - $150 on guides and other misc small parts. $100+ on a really good fence. $100-150 on a riser block kit. Possibly $100-150 on a more powerful motor. At that point you're in shooting distance of a brand new modern saw with a box steel frame, which is going to be better in the long run (it can handle more blade tension than the cast iron deltas can), not to mention it's brand new and you don't have to mess around with it! So that's how I ended up with my Rikon, which I absolutely love. It came with quick adjust bearing guides, an awesome fence, a powerful motor, and 13" (I think) of resaw width. Only thing I had to buy was blades.
Yeah, I was just window shopping on Rockler's website. The Rikons and Jets look nice with no mods needed. But, $12-1500 and 13" Max resaw. I'd really like to squeeze out 14" for doing one piece tops. Looks like you have to bump up to an 18" saw and bust out another grand.
I found an older green 14" Rikon for sale on craigslist in the finger lakes region for $480. But no description and one blurry pic. Model 10-321.
I'm trying to look up specs on it.
I found an older green 14" Rikon for sale on craigslist in the finger lakes region for $480. But no description and one blurry pic. Model 10-321.
I'm trying to look up specs on it.
Jet JWBS-15 15'' Bandsaw, 1-3/4HP, 115/230V
I think this would cover anything I would ever need to do with a band saw.
I just need to get a paper route or something.
I think this would cover anything I would ever need to do with a band saw.
I just need to get a paper route or something.
Well, my weekend at the wood shop hasn't gone terribly well. 
I got home from work to find my kitty laying next to a pile of poo, apparently something was bothering her enough that she couldn't make it to the litter box so she gave up. I decided that we were not going and we would stay home to get the kitty seen by a vet. Apparently the COVID shortage has also impacted vets too because the soonest anyone would see her was the 20th. Yeah, not gonna work.
I'm also trying to sell one of my race cars and needed to head to the race shop to show a potential buyer. So I sent my wife with the kitty to an emergency pet clinic while I headed to meet "dude" at the race shop. The emergency clinic is so overwhelmed with people who can't get an appointment at a regular vet clinic, so they are using the emergency clinic for literally everything, that they had an 8 hour wait list. They put my wife on the wait list and sent her home, they would call her when it was her turn and she could come back.
In the mean time, I expected "dude" to just be looking, kicking tires. He showed up with a trailer.
Seems like something I'd be excited about, except for the part where my brother had 3 vehicles parked between this car and the shop door and they are all out of town and I have no clue where the keys are. So I sent him home empty handed and we agreed to rerack and try again at a later date.
The wife got the call from the vet clinic at 1am, so off she went. She got back home at about 3am. It seems kitty had a nail that had grown so long it was stabbing her own foot. I've never had a cat this large and everything about her is large. I feel like an a$& for not keeping them trimmed, but I've never had a cat that needed the nails trimmed.
So, after a groggy morning, we decided "okay, maybe we can go." We take our kitty with us anyways and she seemed to be doing good. So we threw everything in the RV and headed out. We were almost there, maybe another 10 miles to go, when I felt like my truck sounded wrong. Something was different. Sure enough.....
Nothing like losing a tire while you have a 14,000 pound RV hooked up.
Small two lane country road, no shoulders. Luckily it happened on a very flat straight section where oncoming motorists would see me with plenty of time. I called my boss and told him to bring a floor jack, then started assessing damage, when a passing truck stopped and the driver said "Hey, we live up the road the bit, you want me to haul it for ya?" Umm, yes please! We dropped the trailer right there in the middle of the road, I limped my truck out from under it and the guy hooked his truck to it. My wife jumped in their truck and away they went. A farmer who lived about a 1/4 mile up the road had seen us and came down on his atv. He said "Just limp it up to my field there and pull in that open gate, you can change it off the road there." I'm telling you, this kind of stuff doesn't happen in the city. Country folks know how to take care of each other. I'm thankful it happened where it did. My spare was already in the truck, so the tire on the spare carrier was low due to a slow leak. But luckily it had enough air to get the truck to my boss's house.
So the truck needs tires, but it's a holiday weekend. I'll limp it home on Monday and we will leave the RV here, then I'll find tires next week.
So, setting aside all that excitement, we decided to just act like normal and enjoy our weekend. I had planned on working on the Diva build, but somehow I forgot the neck blank in all that "are we going? are we not going?" mess. So that put that on hold. I figured I'd route the controll cover cavity for Lucifer, but I forgot my CA glue to do "the trick", so I cant affix my routing template to it. So no actual bass building is getting done here.
I did tape the feed belt on the drum sander back together using masking tape. It actually worked a bit....
....until it ripped the tape apart. I expected it. But man was it enough to tell me how badly I need one of these drum sander things! I gotta get this beast running, we are for sure buying a new drive belt!
Okay, I've had enough fun for one weekend. I give up.
I got home from work to find my kitty laying next to a pile of poo, apparently something was bothering her enough that she couldn't make it to the litter box so she gave up. I decided that we were not going and we would stay home to get the kitty seen by a vet. Apparently the COVID shortage has also impacted vets too because the soonest anyone would see her was the 20th. Yeah, not gonna work.
I'm also trying to sell one of my race cars and needed to head to the race shop to show a potential buyer. So I sent my wife with the kitty to an emergency pet clinic while I headed to meet "dude" at the race shop. The emergency clinic is so overwhelmed with people who can't get an appointment at a regular vet clinic, so they are using the emergency clinic for literally everything, that they had an 8 hour wait list. They put my wife on the wait list and sent her home, they would call her when it was her turn and she could come back.
In the mean time, I expected "dude" to just be looking, kicking tires. He showed up with a trailer.
Seems like something I'd be excited about, except for the part where my brother had 3 vehicles parked between this car and the shop door and they are all out of town and I have no clue where the keys are. So I sent him home empty handed and we agreed to rerack and try again at a later date.The wife got the call from the vet clinic at 1am, so off she went. She got back home at about 3am. It seems kitty had a nail that had grown so long it was stabbing her own foot. I've never had a cat this large and everything about her is large. I feel like an a$& for not keeping them trimmed, but I've never had a cat that needed the nails trimmed.
So, after a groggy morning, we decided "okay, maybe we can go." We take our kitty with us anyways and she seemed to be doing good. So we threw everything in the RV and headed out. We were almost there, maybe another 10 miles to go, when I felt like my truck sounded wrong. Something was different. Sure enough.....
Nothing like losing a tire while you have a 14,000 pound RV hooked up.
Small two lane country road, no shoulders. Luckily it happened on a very flat straight section where oncoming motorists would see me with plenty of time. I called my boss and told him to bring a floor jack, then started assessing damage, when a passing truck stopped and the driver said "Hey, we live up the road the bit, you want me to haul it for ya?" Umm, yes please! We dropped the trailer right there in the middle of the road, I limped my truck out from under it and the guy hooked his truck to it. My wife jumped in their truck and away they went. A farmer who lived about a 1/4 mile up the road had seen us and came down on his atv. He said "Just limp it up to my field there and pull in that open gate, you can change it off the road there." I'm telling you, this kind of stuff doesn't happen in the city. Country folks know how to take care of each other. I'm thankful it happened where it did. My spare was already in the truck, so the tire on the spare carrier was low due to a slow leak. But luckily it had enough air to get the truck to my boss's house.
So the truck needs tires, but it's a holiday weekend. I'll limp it home on Monday and we will leave the RV here, then I'll find tires next week.
So, setting aside all that excitement, we decided to just act like normal and enjoy our weekend. I had planned on working on the Diva build, but somehow I forgot the neck blank in all that "are we going? are we not going?" mess. So that put that on hold. I figured I'd route the controll cover cavity for Lucifer, but I forgot my CA glue to do "the trick", so I cant affix my routing template to it. So no actual bass building is getting done here.
I did tape the feed belt on the drum sander back together using masking tape. It actually worked a bit....
....until it ripped the tape apart. I expected it. But man was it enough to tell me how badly I need one of these drum sander things! I gotta get this beast running, we are for sure buying a new drive belt!
Okay, I've had enough fun for one weekend. I give up.
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