What's On Your Workbench?

[Gilmourisgod]

Naw... all of our mop is precut ....outsourced from an Indonesian sweat shop.
I just cut the pockets with yer typical Dremel & stumak base.

Found this clone of the Stewmac Dremel base on Fleabay for about half the price. In fact, I'm sure it IS the Stewmac base, minus the screen-print logo and a nice polish job on the aluminum. Nice piece of kit, it worked well on my star inlay ordeal.

 

[Rôckhewer]

made in Vietnam, so each one was unique, and therefore a PITA.

Oh yeah... Vietnam... and yes, they are NOT consistent

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Depaule Supply, of course. Probably a 12 year old cutting them all day for $.50 per star. I feel kinda guilty.... My hat is off to anybody who can do this really well, it kicked my ass.
DePaule Supply

 

[Gilmourisgod]

FYI,
Here's the same Dremel base on Amazon, about $10.00 more than I paid for it on Fleabay, but still $20 less than the Stewmac version. It looks like the cheaper one just uses the solid aluminum casting at the top without some additional rounding and polishing, but all the other parts and function is identical. The cheaper one has the little port to attach an air pump too, but I don't use it. A piece of tape wrapped around the dremel bit makes a nice dust fan.

https://www.amazon.com/Precision-Ro...=1699396013&sprefix=dremel+base,aps,94&sr=8-4

https://www.amazon.com/Precision-Ro...=1699396013&sprefix=dremel+base,aps,94&sr=8-4

Notice how Stewmac sells it for $70 on their website, but tacks on $12 for S&H. So they just tack $10 onto it when selling on Amazon, net difference = $2.00 less on Amazon. Stewmac makes nice tools, but that $12 shipping charge is BS.
Precision Router Base - StewMac

 

[JIO]

Found this clone of the Stewmac Dremel base on Fleabay for about half the price. In fact, I'm sure it IS the Stewmac base, minus the screen-print logo and a nice polish job on the aluminum. Nice piece of kit, it worked well on my star inlay ordeal.

Can you post the eBay link for that base?

 

[Gilmourisgod]

I'm not seeing it on EBAY now , but you can get them on Amazon now too, see link in my post above.

 

[Lo-E]

A piece of tape wrapped around the dremel bit makes a nice dust fan.

Clever!

 

[Beej]

Wow you guys have it good down there. Up here, that router base from StewMac delivered is $189. The cheapest import version is $82.26.

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Wow you guys have it good down there. Up here, that router base from StewMac delivered is $189. The cheapest import version is $82.26.

Wassup with that? Exchange Rate? Cost of trucking a load of tools across the great trackless sheet of ice that is Canada? Or, as i expect, you are just getting ruthlessly price-gouged? BTW, my son lives in Montreal, in an Igloo, of course.

 

[Jeff Siddall]

d) all of the above

EDIT: Or, in @Beej's case:

d) ferrying goods across a strait
e) jealousy tax for living somewhere beautiful
f) all of the above

 

[Gilmourisgod]

And, of course, translating everything into Canadia is expensive too. We pay a similar premium for some stuff on Cape Cod because driving across the two huge friggin' Canal bridges is so arduous and dangerous and..... insert BS reason here. Just driving across the bridge adds about $.10-.20 cents to a gallon of gas.

 

[Beej]

I think it's all of the above. Everything's just. so. expensive here.

That's why I have no choice but to charge 6k for my basses.

 

[ctmullins]

I think it's all of the above. Everything's just. so. expensive here.

That's why I have no choice but to charge 6k for my basses.

Yeah, but 6k Canadian is only $400 US.

 

[Rôckhewer]

... you'll put yer eye out kid!

Ouch

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Better tape some foam around that thing!

 

[raulbasss]

Finished the neck pocket. Makita rocks

 

[Gilmourisgod]

... you'll put yer eye out kid! View attachment 5246194
Ouch View attachment 5246196

The Safety Conscious Craftsman wears a full Osha Approved set of PPE, including Kevlar helmet and armored jock strap at all times for just such unfortunate Incidents. Or, as I do, just keeps an ancient box of bandaids....somewhere in the shop. I get 'Work Anesthesia", usually the first I know I've cut myself is when the blood shows up on the wood. I have some interesting scars from my youthful Adventures in Amateur Auto-Body repair. I can attest that running a disc sander over your be-shorted thigh (when you momentarily forget NEVER to to let the grinder move the same direction as the disc rotates) creates an aesthetically pleasing spray pattern of blood on nearby objects.

 

[Flamingo21]

I can attest that running a disc sander over your be-shorted thigh (when you momentarily forget NEVER to to let the grinder move the same direction as the disc rotates) creates an aesthetically pleasing spray pattern of blood on nearby objects.

If you know how to write, you can make anything sound like fun. Well done sir.

 

[Rôckhewer]

What's on my workbench?

A scary sharp 45° router bit.
.... and a lot of praying

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Pointy point! I’d be terrified of shearing those off on the first pass.