What - non Festool - tool / workshop related gizmo/stuff did you buy today?
PaulMarcel
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Imemiter said:
Ouf... a violin repair shop would have so many interesting woodworking things. There's a whole series of books on violin building I was interested in grabbing, but the niche market commands a pretty high price for those books. A thread about the violin shop would be a lot of fun, especially with photos.
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Imemiter said:
That Alberti gear is really wonderfull looking stuff. The focus they put on precision boring tools is pretty impressive when you consider they're drilling wood. [big grin] Thanks for that...
That's a considerable contrast to the woodworking world that we know where most folks are naysayers of precision wood manufacturing practices. The most common statement usually is "wood grows and shrinks with humidity", well that may be so but are there lessons here that can be learned from instrument manufacturers that have hundreds of years of experience?
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Cheese said:
my added emphasis. Occasionally, there's a luthier class done out here in Domestic-Saudi-Arabia (Arizona...) that I'm tempted to take. My personal opinion is that the most basic luthier has more wood-movement vision than most of us. I mean, a violin going from humid-af Alabama to dry-af Arizona? Yeah, that will tear apart many projects the least of which define a tuning. Which is why I'd love to take some classes
Why does Chrome squiggle-line "af"... common vernacular...
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I've known/worked with a couple of luthiers, and it's the most enthralling thing to watch an accomplished luthier in action. It's an occupation I give the utmost respect to.
I hadn't planned on getting a table saw. I was thinking that I would get one maybe towards the 2nd quarter of 2025. Narrowed it down to the SawStop CTS or Festool CSC SYS 50. Then I got in touch with a Navy guy who was being stationed out of the area who needed to get rid of his CTS - and today I came home with a not too heavily used CTS!
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I'm a sucker for niche purpose tools, and when this Wolfcraft Ledge came up randomly on my insta feed last week, I grabbed it. When I did the herringbone wall panelling prior, I made a crude "Z" shaped tool out of 1/8" steel sheet to pull them in tight, but it didn't work well at all. I'm excited to use this the next round of wall panelling!
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I go through a lot of small clamps, and while I was at the welding supply I came across these Wolf 300 x 140 heavy duty welders clamps half price and bought a bunch. I'm using them to laminate 25mm thick panels together and they are just fantastic, really allow you to clamp hard without breaking! Love them!
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Last week I received a truposition tools max hardware jig. I have several cabinet projects and vanities coming up and am excited to see how much time it saves me.
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A Wera Tool-Check Plus in empirical sizes. Those are somewhat hard to come by here in Europe, so I am glad I finally found one. The "normal" bits (SL PH PZ TX) and adapters are the same as the metric version. But the Allen bits and the sockets are not. And those were what I needed. The Robertson bit are nice to have, but I don't use them that much. I am sure I'll find good use for the rapidaptor and the mini wrench though. I really like both, so I don't mind having more than one.
Was at the store yesterday and saw this thing called the StealthMounts Trax90 XL Track Saw Square. It's a plastic track square and rail guard all-in-one. And for $30, I thought it would be worth trying out. Maybe I'll get to try it out over the weekend.
I bought this set of drills with chamfer heads. I only needed the #4 combo, but the entire set cost $16.00 from Amazon, and I could not find a just-#4-combo.
Strangely, each drill was packed in its own holder along with an Allen wrench and a spare set screw.
I don’t know why they would provide 5 identical Allen wrenches and 5 identical spare set screws to go with the set.
In any case, I made one drilled hole with it and it worked fine. It is for a project scheduled to start after the holidays.
Strangely, each drill was packed in its own holder along with an Allen wrench and a spare set screw.
I don’t know why they would provide 5 identical Allen wrenches and 5 identical spare set screws to go with the set.
In any case, I made one drilled hole with it and it worked fine. It is for a project scheduled to start after the holidays.
I keep trying to post photos because the last time it worked from the phone. Today? Not at all.
However, I did manage to find a guy selling a 2014 DeWalt DW735 planer for $450. Since it's ten years old, asked him if he would consider $250. He said yes. Went to pick it up and asked him if he still had the allen key. Said he was sorry but he didn't and then knocked the price down to $200!
It was a bit dirty, said it hadn't been used much. Took it home, opened it up, inspected the blades (a little pine residue build up), rollers, drive chain, cleaned it up and it seems to work like a champ. Gonna run some stock through it tomorrow to see how it performs.
However, I did manage to find a guy selling a 2014 DeWalt DW735 planer for $450. Since it's ten years old, asked him if he would consider $250. He said yes. Went to pick it up and asked him if he still had the allen key. Said he was sorry but he didn't and then knocked the price down to $200!
It was a bit dirty, said it hadn't been used much. Took it home, opened it up, inspected the blades (a little pine residue build up), rollers, drive chain, cleaned it up and it seems to work like a champ. Gonna run some stock through it tomorrow to see how it performs.
