I prefer jointing a plate in nice full strokes from one end to the other. On the backside of my bench I added a pivoting piece of wood and with some clamps I can now do just that. 4 foot plate just got jointed! Very happy at how easily and simply this went. Each step i get setup makes future plates easier and faster to do.

I couldn’t help myself, I bought another shopsmith. This is an older 1953 10er. For now it is setup as a drill press. Great thing about these older ones is that there are no secondary way tubes. So it can have a small footprint as a drill press. Everyone needs a big heavy drill press!

As for saws, I planed down some curly maple adding to my stock of ready to cut handle stock. This was my first time planing small pieces in the planer on a sled with double sides tape. Very happy with the results.

Very happy with how my new frame saw plates are coming along. Made a longer carrier and bar for the retoother and officially toothed the first plates today. 4 foot long, 4 inch depth. .042 plate. 3 teeth per inch.

In preparation for a lot of side work in the garage come August, I’ve been sneaking a lot of time here and there to get everything ready to work on saws. I have my newest radial arm saw on the end of the bench. The table is higher by about a 1/2 inch for clearance. From the end of the bench to the end of the RAS table comes out to a crazy, 13.5 feet in length! Talk about a lot of work space.

I lucked out and found a 2nd bandsaw for $20. Motor ran but not the blade and a $7 belt later and I have a running saw. Its a small 10 inch but for what I wanted it for I’m pretty happy. My other bandsaw is setup with a jig for certain repeat cuts. Something I hate having to undo and setup all the time. So when I found this saw I couldn’t resist! Someday I’ll buy a big one but these little saws get the job done.

I’m looking into making the parts for Roubo frame saws. Today I filed a new ratchet bar for my foley belsaw retoother. I need a longer bar and carrier for the 4ft plates. Pretty easy, just takes time. Clamped a 3 tpi saw to the side of the new bar and lined my file up. Quick test and it works great, next up is a longer carrier.

I haven’t gotten much done in the garage lately. It’s been a bit of a mess too, doesn’t take long to fill it up with random stuff when you aren’t using it much. I did a miter saw at the beginning of the summer, had some issues with the set but thankfully me and the customer got it sorted out. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve started cleaning up and setting up a new toy. A medium arm radial arm saw. It’s massive! And today I cleaned up the first saw in weeks. I now have three saws to make and hopefully I’ll get plenty of time in the garage soon.

I’ve been putting this off for too long. I had a saw till at our old house but it was a quickly thrown together one that wasn’t worth keeping. And this garage had plenty of room at first to just keep hanging saws lol! But I have slowly added things like shelves, cabinets, lumber rack and so on. I had some left over plywood from the rolling cabinet builds and just enough paint left over from another project to build this. I think I counted that it will hold 37 full sized saws.

The saws I sent with unfinished handles awhile back now look great! Customer used his own finish and they look amazing.

Finished up another dovetail saw today. I really like this curly maple. I think ill need to make myself a couple saws with it before I sell it all.