10-12 years ago I was modernizing my kitchen.? I had a pot of hide glue heated up to repair some delaminated? cabinet doors.? I somehow managed to knock the pot off the saw bench onto the floor.? There wasn’t much glue left, maybe half a cup at most.? The linoleum was old and due for replacement so I left it to cool, thinking it’d be easier to scrape up in a few minutes, but when I came back the floor was clean as a whistle.? The only clue I had was my old Australian Shepard sitting next to the door with a guilty expression.? She must have lived another 5 years after that so I suspect you’ll be okay.

Johnny

Oh Wilbur!? Stay healthy, the Dr's office is no place to go now.? Dave

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Marlowe McGraw <marlomcgraw@...>
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2020 2:00 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [FOG] Danger in the shop

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Well, danger may be overstating things,? but it is a definite concern...

I recently cleaned my coffeemaker and brewed some coffee.? ?I take both cream and sugar.? I like the sugar in the raw.??

To avoid attracting rodents, I keep anything foodlike in the refrigerator.? ?I also keep instant glues and hide glue in there.

I haven't used my hide glue in a while (still finishing the shop build...),? but must say that a sandwich bag of hide glue looks remarkably like sugar in the raw...

Needless to say,? my coffee wasn't any sweeter with hide glue.? Seems I'm not suffering any I'll effects yet.? If you're old enough to remember Mr. Ed, there may be a reboot in the works soon...

Marlowe McGraw?

I have not used that disc sander, but I've been using a hand cranked one for years. I teach a class on making Shaker oval boxes every summer on a picnic table in the woods. It became the solution for fitting tops and bottoms very accurately, and quite quickly if you did a decent job cutting out with the coping saw. Mine is a converted Wards Master hand cranked grinder. I replaced the sharpening wheel with a plywood disc where the sandpaper is applied. I built a table fixture around it dedicated to the 3 degree bevel that we use on the parts. The grinder is geared so that you can crank a little and let it coast if you are just fine tuning. Everyone who's used it loves the thing. If only I could find a solution for dust collection!

I've been using the JDS Multirouter for nearly 25 years. One thing it can do that the Pantorouter can't is be a very fast production machine. When equipped with the pneumatic clamps, you can process chair parts at an alarming rate once you've got a setup. You couldn't do it any faster without spending exponentially more money on a twin table 5 axis CNC. I don't have any experience with a tenoner to know if that's a solution, but those are huge, single purpose machines not many of us have the space for. I mill brass and aluminum on the JDS.? Using a shop made jig which is essentially a vertical table, I can machine very small delicate parts like pickup rings for the guitars I build. I love that they use Thomson linear rails and bearings. The thing stays accurate year after year without any slop. I've never had a DRO on mine and I get by fine, but I'm sure I'd never go back if I installed it. It would be a slippery slope to have to add those all over the shop. Maybe as my eyes get worse...

I've thought of multiple improvements that could be made over the years, but they fall on deaf ears over at JDS. Now that they've been sold maybe things will change? I wouldn't be without one in the shop, or two or three. Down to just two now.

Jason

Jason Holtz
J. Holtz Furniture

3307 Snelling Ave. South

Minneapolis, MN 55406
612 432-2765

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Jason
J. Holtz Furniture
3307 Snelling Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55406

I use the ?” groover in the Freeborn stack, and if using a flat panel, I will use ?” material (MDF for paint grade) and profile the back edge of the panel to fit the groove precisely.? For that profiling operation I use a Whitehill panel raising cutter so the transition from ? to ? has a nice scallop shape.?

David Best

On Nov 2, 2020, at 7:50 AM, Shinta Wakahisa via <vnh84=[email protected]> wrote:

?Hello all,
I want to buy a set of Freeborn Cope and Pattern cutters for a cabinet project.? Freeborn gives you the option of choosing the center groover's width and depth of cut.? The standard is 1/4" x 3/8".? I routine purchase 1/4-inch plywood, but none of it ever is truly 1/4-inch in thickness.? The thickness varies from batch to batch, so I always adjust my groove cutter or dado set to match the material.? For this Freeborn set, I want to ask which center groover option people recommend? Also, beside Whitehill in the UK, where else are top-hat bushings available for purchase to adapt the Freeborn cutters from 1 1/4 inch bore to a 30mm spindle on a KF700SP?? The archive mentions Paul Jordan's company, but I can't find it using the common search engines.??

I am looking at PC-10-060, PC-10-050, or PC-10-070.??

Thanks!

SW