Recent content by richard newman

Great work Stephen, proud to have provided some of the stock for your restoration! I use 1/2" 4T hook blades for resawing veneers. The 3T are faster, but the kerf is wider, get better yield from the 4T. Sometimes yield was critical if I needed a certain number of veneers from a board to make...

Have the logs been sawn yet? Some of the bugs are only interested in the sapwood. Heat treating works well, anyone with a kiln should know all about this stuff

Damn, looked at this while eating lunch, ruined my appetite!

After potting up with solid rod bases for years, I bought a Noga articulated arm base and it has become my go to. So much easier to get the indicator tip exactly where I want it

I have a shelix on my little 6" PM 50, and I love it - handles intensely curly hard maple with no tearout, and doesn't dull with rosewood and ebony. Hard to say whether you'd get your money back on a sale, but I suspect there are more than a few people out there who would prefer the older...

Ok, someone has to ask this - do you have a way to measure your wood parts to less than .005"?

How "pure" does it need to be? Is the big box stuff adequate?

Look at McMaster Carr. They have them with points to hammer into the wood, or the shape you want. https://www.mcmaster.com/tee-nuts/?fbclid=IwAR29mtCaalQ6OTimuwD-KNkKovbi1sCJfjVufKIOAmQNVFfsLn-_L2LemhA

Yeah, I really find that a PIA. But I'm hoping the gods will eventually get around to fixing that.

Just went to look at this and discovered all my PM's from the good old days have disappeared! Is there any way to recover them

I'm curious, who and where was this mill? My favorite one was in Mansfield, same sort of deal

Nice work, gorgeous wood! I used to drive around in PA & NY looking for sawmills like that, hoping they had hung on to some highly figured stock. Often someone would throw it up in the rafters. Fun way to spend a day, met some interesting people, and got some super wood.

This is very interesting, thanks guys. I think I dodged that bullet when I bought my Boyar Schultz 612 and dusted the chuck 25 years ago. I was a woodworker just getting into precision metal work, and another guy at the sale gave me some advice.

How hot are we talking about to cause deformation?

Yeah, me too! And every now and then I can contribute something myself.