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My bandsaw was likely manufactured in the 1910-s and was originally line shaft driven through a long flat belt running on a pair of fast and loose pulleys. Somebody else had tried to convert it to motor driven but screwed up everuthing so I got the saw very cheap. Made a proper motor mount and...

Motor frames are trandard today but they haven't been for long. Most elderly motors are non standard and still today there are non standard motors on the market. If you decide to go down that route save the old motor for the future. Somebody else with access to three phase power may want to...

The traditional way of cutting out the female part of sliding dovetails by hand is to use a special saw whose English name I cannot remember. It looks like this Kringla - gradsåg. I made mine from a blade from a Sandvik tenon saw fitted into a home made handle. Ulmia still make them and call...

Correct. Never trust a builder you don't know well...... and never trust him outside his field of expertise. I have seen some terrible destruction caused in a log building by a builder whom I know is very good at modern stick framed houses. Apparently he didn't know himself well enough to know...

I am a fan of slow running waterstone grinders but there are many more options than Tormek. Myself I have one entirely home built machine and one that contains parts from a factory made Alimak and one entirely factory made Kirunaslipen. The larger models of Kirunaslipen are for sue better than a...

It is worth knowing that a filter cartridge atop an ordinary dust collector tends to wear out prematurely. The folds in the cartridge is worn down by coarser particles being blown around inside it. It all depend on how much your dust collector will run per month. If you use it a lot you will...

There is lots of wisdom in this thread. Theese days there isn't much money to be made as a joiner. Most startups go bankrupt. Bigger firms are either forced to get even bigger while automating everything so it can be run by the cheapest unqualified workers or to downscale to one man or two man...

You could also look at a secondhand Martin or Panhans or Altendorf. They tent to fit easily within your budget even lightly used ones in seemingly good condition. Of you for some reason want too buy new you could take a look at Rojek which seem to be reasonably well made though a little nferrior...

I agree with the above though the phenomena is generally said to have hit less bad in rural Finland than elsewhere. It seems like rural areas where it is distictly untrendy to live have a sort of built in partial protection against both coronavirus and architecturevirus. Myself I have a...

I would not say that I hate routers. I own one and use it regularly for things it is good at. However it is absolutely not a favourite of mine and if there is another way of getting the job done without spending too much time I choose he other way.

The Swedish made Ejca combinations are pretty good too. Some were sold by Luna in the UK though far from all Lunas are made by Ejca.

I have seen the trend all over. "Replace all proper products with rebranded junk and step up marketing to the point that people cannot avoid seeing the stuff all around them and then they will buy the junk at any price" Apparently some marketing prophet has been teaching that principle lately...

I recently came across some Jonköping chainsaws........... On another forum I saw there was a post concerning what seems to be a copy of a vintage Delta planer.......................... it pretends beeing a thoroughly rebuilt vintage delta but I doubt. I look forward to finding some MillWhacko...

Are you on this forum for any other reason than starting quarrels Rorschach? You need an axe and a bow saw and 20 full size windfallen pine trees to turn into sawlogs and firewood. That is the best cure I know of when my brain is boiling and I feel like starting a fight would be a good idea.

We will never get this time back.......... but tomorrow we will have to live with the consequeces of our decisions made today. Even avoiding to make a decision counts as a decision. If you decide to be irresposible you are the one who has to carry the blame if it gets a bad end. In my family we...

New Zeeland has been fairly successful and Finland and Iceland aren't too far behind. In this game there is nothing such as a total success. Only various grades of failiour. Falling just a little short of success is way better than a big time screw up when losses are roughly proportional to the...

Worked on improving the road that leads to our woodland parcel and through it to parcels owned by others. Utilizing spells of spare time over the last 2 years we have widened the road from 1,6 to 2,2 metres and the ruts which had reached the depth when my Massey-Ferguson 165 would have hung up...

Sweden had rapid spread of Covid 19 as they refused any sort of lockdown at the beginning of the crisis. At present around 5% of the population in Sweden has measurable amounts of antibodies. 5800 have died. Icelandic research proves that practically everyone who has had the virus gets...

Cheap migs tend to be good at making people believe that they lack talent for welding. Good migs aren't cheap. I have tested mig weding a few times and found it a lot more difficult tan it looks. I stick weld a lot and it took a bit of effort to learn but once learned it is a very versatile...

The riving knife on my hand held cirkular saw once saved me 3 or 4 fingers. Those fingers are useful so I am happy they are still in their proper place and consequently I keep the riving knife in it's proper place too. I would not buy a handheld cirkular saw without a riving knife. Absolutely...