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I guess my surprise was that if you were going to machine a small part of the edges, why not do all of it, can't imagine it would take much longer to do the whole edge. Despite that, it's a great, solid saw and I'll shim the fence mount to get it properly square.

Back on Wednesday for bowl turning.

First of two day introduction to turning with a local professional. Today was spindle work making a honey dipper out of oak and a twig vase from some lovely yew.

Honestly, yes, I expected it to be square to the table. Why wouldn't you make it like that. I don't have anything other than files to face that with and, even with the holes done, the fence would still get pulled out I think. I drilled and tapped freehand because my drill press doesn't have...

So today I fitted the kreg fence. Not straightforward as there are no holes in the side of the table so those had to be measured, drilled and tapped which was fiddly. Then I discovered that the sides of the table aren’t square which seems rather daft and made the fence sit up at an angle. I...

This is the plate on the side.

After growing up with dogs, it was much later in life that I had my own. We have two now, 11 and 8 years old. The first one, I’m not sure I’ve ever loved anything as much as I love that dog, I’ve never had kids but I imagine this is what you must feel if you do. I know in the next few years...

OK, so I did a bit more cleaning and then installed the blade. Went through all the setup and think I have it running nicely. Blade tension I set the way Paul Sellers recommends which is to raise the guard up and then, with a block against the blade, push on the blade and see how far the gap is...

Thanks very much, that's very kind of you, I'll get the exact model tomorrow.

Not sure, will have a look tomorrow. Spent the afternoon giving it a clean, taking the guides apart and cleaning them as the threads were pretty gummed up and sanding and waxing the table. Tomorrow I’ll look at the guage, refit the blade and have a go at tuning it up. Need to sit and watch...

No, there’s no tension relief lever on this saw

I already know what the cable does as the gauge changes with the blade tensioning knob, I was trying to find out what the numbers might mean.

I spoke with Tuffsaws when I got the machine and have three blades from them of the correct length

Unwound the tension to the point the blade can be slid off and the gauge is at this position Put a reasonable amount of tension on it and it’s here Still need to learn what the correct amount of tension should be but I think I’ve leaned that basically the gauge is meaningless :)

Yes, figured it was a tension indicator but wondered what the numbers actually meant. @MorrisWoodman12 that might be a good call, if it's blade width in mm.

I picked up an old Meber bandsaw that works well but is in need of some tic. I've not been able to find a proper manual online, just an exploded diagram so I'm not sure what the 10-15-20 means on this gauge, which looks to be blade tension related but I'm not sure if it's percentage of something...

Thanks, I’ll do that. I’m thinking of making another rack so that bowl specific tools have their own rack.

Tools arrived from Classic Hand Tools, very well packed. And I knocked up a simple rack from scrap to keep the basic set to hand.

Needed a belt sander today and don't have one. However, the lathe came with a belt sander attachment although it didn't work as it was very rusty and full of old gummed up sawdust. Right then 'rolls up sleeves'. Out with the angle grinder and wire brush, some spanners and good old Henry the...

This is the stuff I found on Amazon which was reasonably priced compared to most woodworking places.