Got this put together today. Its just a 13". Eventually I would like to get a much larger but this is going to step up quality and speed on the things I am making now.
New toy in the woodlot
New toy in the woodlot
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints the sinners are much more fun...
Muller
Muller
Re: New toy in the woodlot
In the background is the profile of a leg for a lounge I am working on.
Also got a 3 1/2" battery handheld planer.
Next big tool on the wish list is a large bandsaw for cutting those profiles for benches and lounges. The way I am doing it now just takes so long so I keep investing in upping the quality and increasing the output.
There is a 3rd party that makes a replacement drum for these surface planers that use 60 indexable cutters mounted in a helical pattern. They are about $400 but there is a lot of upsides like carbide inserts, 4 cutting sides, less contact on the surface at any given instant and if you get a chip in a blade its just in the line of that one spot so no need to replace the entire 13" long blades.
Also got a 3 1/2" battery handheld planer.
Next big tool on the wish list is a large bandsaw for cutting those profiles for benches and lounges. The way I am doing it now just takes so long so I keep investing in upping the quality and increasing the output.
There is a 3rd party that makes a replacement drum for these surface planers that use 60 indexable cutters mounted in a helical pattern. They are about $400 but there is a lot of upsides like carbide inserts, 4 cutting sides, less contact on the surface at any given instant and if you get a chip in a blade its just in the line of that one spot so no need to replace the entire 13" long blades.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints the sinners are much more fun...
Muller
Muller
Re: New toy in the woodlot
Planers and band-saws. I once owned a boatyard on the Chesapeake Bay where I built wooden boats. We had a Fay and Egan 311 Lightning band-saw exactly like this:
and a 26 inch Fay and Egan planer. It weighed as much as a small car. I poured new Babbitt bearings for the main cutter shaft. I powered it with the engine from a 1953 Plymouth. The Plymouth had been sitting in the back yard of some old people in town for years. It had 70,000 miles on it. They had a new Pontiac. I bought it for fifty dollars and took out the engine. It had one of those Chrysler slush-box transmissions that preceded the automatics. It was perfect for a big planer in a boat yard. I used to feed 24 inch wide white oak flitch through it and take off a quarter- inch at a pass. I sure miss those days when all of that was still possible. My liability insurance was 67 dollars a year. It would be more than that per day now, if I could even get it. And OSHA! Oh my God!
Richard
and a 26 inch Fay and Egan planer. It weighed as much as a small car. I poured new Babbitt bearings for the main cutter shaft. I powered it with the engine from a 1953 Plymouth. The Plymouth had been sitting in the back yard of some old people in town for years. It had 70,000 miles on it. They had a new Pontiac. I bought it for fifty dollars and took out the engine. It had one of those Chrysler slush-box transmissions that preceded the automatics. It was perfect for a big planer in a boat yard. I used to feed 24 inch wide white oak flitch through it and take off a quarter- inch at a pass. I sure miss those days when all of that was still possible. My liability insurance was 67 dollars a year. It would be more than that per day now, if I could even get it. And OSHA! Oh my God!
Richard