Swensons Shop, or How we Roll- everything

[Per Swenson]

I thought I would give you the opportunity to see how small

the operation of Swenson & Swenson actually is.

Pardon the mess. What I am doing is getting ready for

setup to process rough sawn Mahogany for the 2200 router review.

The Festool collection has been moved to another room, as has all of the

traveling tools.  These take up a different room, the garage, and whomever's house we are

working on this time of year.

I am posting this to take any mystery out of our grand humble operation.

If advertising were truthful our company name would be ...

TWO JERKS IN A BASEMENT

Per

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[pingvinlakrits]

Per: nice, small and crammy but there is an air of creativity in there I can tell.

Per Swenson sounds like a name with Scandinavian origin, is that so?

Best regards, Henrik (Swede)

 

[CharlesWilson]

In what appears to be a well lit basement!

Just about everything in my basement workshop (except for the drill press and benches) is on wheels, including my dog (that is another story).

 

[Eli]

Sweet Cave. Beer fridge? ;D

 

[dltflt]

Per,
How do you like your Woodmaster?  Do you use it as a planer or sander?  I bought the 18" a couple of years ago to use as a planer.  I also ran about 300 linear feet of oak base moulding.  I thought making my own molding would be cheaper but I saw the same size at HD for the same price it cost me.  Now mine was much nicer looking wood, the stuff at HD was grey in color.

 

[Per Swenson]

Don,

I love that flippin thing.

Helical head for planing. Sander.

and darn near every knife in the catalog and then some.

When we build a bar, every damn piece comes out of that machine in one form or another,

from crown to bar rail.

When we do one of those projects it all comes to us as rough sawn.

Frankly we could not afford any other way, nor could our customers.

Per

 

[Warrior]

oooo,  sawstop with incra fence, nice!!!!!!!!!!!
or is that a jointech fence? how does it handle? I would love to hear about the saw.

Eiji

 

[Per Swenson]

Eiji,

Sawstop with Incra fence. Yup.

It just goes to show how far we have evolved.

No. Really.

There was a time I sat on that stool in Clancy's and decried every

one of you super accurate woodworkers as, buyers of any overpriced yuppified shiny thing

thing ya want, just to make yourself feel better.

The thought that they actually worked never entered my mind.

See, I wasn't investing in my business or improving my skill's,

Nah, that was my liver moaning and I just didn't listen.

Anyhoo, sawstop a must have Jewel.

with that Incra LSTS 32 fence, as accurate and precise as you can get

in the wood business.

As the ebayers say  AAAA++++!!!!!Will buy again!!!!

Per

 

[dltflt]

Do you think the helical planing head is worth the money?  I like the idea of having individual carbide cutters.  I've read an article about helical heads and they did not give them very high praise.  IMO I would think it would make a cut as smooth as a babies bottom especially on heavy grain.

 

[Per Swenson]

Don,

As with everything you take the good with the bad.

The good part about this cutter, is it removes a lot of wood fast.

Also it is quiet.

It is far from smooth as a baby's bottom.

I am led to believe that they have a new one and it is redesigned.

Works for me, because I can remove 3/8ths in two passes.

Then size and cull the wood further, finally passing it through the sander at 220.

If you are doing it for fun, not profit, the stock knives are the way to go.

Per

 

[Bob Swenson]

Henrick,

He is not much of a Scandinavian, he won't even eat Fiskebolla or
Herring,  the live blood of all Scandinavians.

Down with all the rebellious Vikings.

They can't even rape or plunder anymore.

Just a bunch or oar makers.

Back to my Cloud berry and cream.

Bob

 

[chagall]

Per,

Do you use a jointer first in dealing with the rough sawn wood or just the woodmaster planer/sander?

David

 

[Per Swenson]

Chagall,

We haven't used a jointer in years.

I ain't kiddin.

We use the TS75

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Staytuned in the How To section for a upcoming post titled from

From Rough Sawn to Workable.

Should have it up tonight.

The jointer part isn't exactly true, I use it as a staging area for the hardware collection.

(another horizontal  surface  ;D)

Per