Float your tools across your shop. No need for heavy and expensive casters and wheels. An improvement to the original tools floating on air. These mobile tool bases can be made for $20 in about an hour’s labor time.
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It’s amazing where you can find inspiration for shapes and forms. This week I was working outside of Chicago. Discovering a few free hours I took advantage of the opportunity to stop by the visitors center at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. It is a beautiful property populated with bison. The fields and forested [...] Admit it, you’re addicted! You can’t turn enough wood or make enough sawdust. Unfortunately, you are also afflicted by the same condition as everyone else, a lack of time. When turning is your livelihood, you’re missing out if your are not thinking about your efficiency and it’s costing you money. When turning is your hobby, inefficiency also [...] You decided to take the economical route to vacuum systems, you finally have suction, you’ve piped through the headstock and now you need chucks. Why not have a little fun on the lathe and turn a few chucks yourself? For this you only want kiln-dried wood. I happened to have a block glued up of some [...] Recently I was asked what was necessary to start turning as a hobby. I thought of what the masters might have written in books I have read. I pondered all the magazine articles I’ve seen, and then tried to give sound advice. After mentioning various schools and speaking of local chapters of AAW the obvious came to mind. [...] |
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