Purchased shortly ago / sthg new in your workshop -> present it here

I bought this week a jigsaw machine, it is 32 years old, but in perfect condition. It's a Huvema and they say they last lifetime. The weight is almost 30 kilogram!!

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And my special chair is arrived, not exactly I ordered, but the will change him to the chair I need. But this one does do the job to. The seat can go elektrical up to 1 meter in height.

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Thanks Heinrich. Yes that really helps a lot. The seat can go up in the air by 1 meter.

The scroll saw got a maintenance check, Take it complete apart, cleaned everything and get the rust of the parts. Sanded the working table till it was smooth. All moving parts got new grease.
Then I make a wooden board under it with rubber feet. The weight of the saw is almost 30 kilogram!!!
And I make a dust suction on it.

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Not bad for a 32 years old machine. Tomorrow I got my saw blades for it. So I can test it.
 
Thanks Heinrich. Yes that really helps a lot. The seat can go up in the air by 1 meter.

The scroll saw got a maintenance check, Take it complete apart, cleaned everything and get the rust of the parts. Sanded the working table till it was smooth. All moving parts got new grease.
Then I make a wooden board under it with rubber feet. The weight of the saw is almost 30 kilogram!!!
And I make a dust suction on it.

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Not bad for a 32 years old machine. Tomorrow I got my saw blades for it. So I can test it.
A very interesting solution ! And? does it work how it should work?
 
Hello everyone I got a new shop vac for the shop just a small 8 gallon,I will eventually build a cabinet for it to deaden the sound and plumb it in neatly, I also made this jig for the bandsaw mostly for resawing, you loose 3/4 in hight but it will still resaw 4 1/2 high, and made a block jig to keep against fence, I think this table may stay on the saw more than I think, it is very versatile, I have a little bit of cherry left to resaw ,then I will have to get more, I made so you can find your drift angle fairly quickly.. comments or opinions are welcome..thanks

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For scraping I have been using single edge razor blades as my normal scrapers are too large for the smaller hulls.
I recently purchased this "Mini" hand scraper from StewMac and found it to be excellent. It not only has a straight edge for flatter surfaces but also radiused edges which work very nicely for the areas with concaved surfaces.
The unit is .125" thick made from hardened steel. There is no "Burr" as
normally found on scrapers rather it has a slight concave or "Hollow" grind.
To sharpen you first flatten and
smooth the sides on a sharpening stone then the edge is ground with a fine grit grinding wheel.
To grind it you set your grinders tool rest to the exact center of the 1/8" thick scraper and LIGHTLY touch the grinding wheel flip the scraper and look at the two grinding marks. they should be centered on the scraper. Coating the edge of the scraper with a black Sharpie makes seeing the two marks easier. You then lightly grind the edge
which forms the hollow grind.
So
far, I find this far superior to the single edge razor blades as there are no sharp 90 deg. edges to dig into your work. especially when scraping concave surfaces.

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Oh yes, it comes in a nice fabric pouch to store it in. :D
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Well, not really "New in the workshop" rather a new workshop area. I still have all my power tools in my workshop but set up this area in the house for mainly my assembly area. This keeps me close by when/if the Admiral requires something during her ongoing battle with kidney failure.
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