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Yes I no longer sharpen and use shark blades now.

Bandsaw blades make amazing blades for these. Cut em Drill em an use em!

Love everything about this but the price! Does anyone have real world experience of using this gear?

Take a look at https://www.sautershop.com/sauter-router-lifts-for-router-tables/router-lift-for-router-motors/pivoting-router-lift-ofl3.0/

Has anyone built matthias tilting router table? Seems a great idea but most of the interesting stuff happens at 45 degrees...

BTW the vintage compass plane worked OK. It just didn't smooth the surface enough only having limited bearing. The stanlel ones must be...

I always figure its like a jigsaw and when you get everything right boom look at that it's just the same. As oppose to imposing your...

Just to reflect on this(I haven't fitted it yet) the scary bit before doing it was pattern cutting on the spindle and moulding on the...

I made a curved base for the belt sander to allow the sanding of the inside curves which worked really well.

The casements were relatively straightforward if not quite time consuming to make in particular the 6 pane ones. I ended up using that...

Here's a video of the frame mostly complete. Next it's all the casements. Which thankfully are straight!

Now in my poor demented mind having done what I considered to be the "hard bit" I thought that was easy of course I was nowhere near...

So I'd bandsawn these slightly oversize so what remains was to pattern cut the large chunks on the spindle. I use an 80mm spiral cutter...

The first pictures shows the half template set up to lines squared on on my bench at 7 foot(overall width) 3 foot 6 inch(overall width...

When selecting redwood for normal windows and doors I select the deals that are mostly heartwood and those can often have pith...