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There are dedicated stonecutting discs that looks simlilar to the ones for metal but something is different in to composition. They wear pretty fast but for an one time job like this they should be ideal. Remember to protect your lungs and also your belongings from the stone dust. Stone dust is...

Haha :oops: After posting I found that the topic belongs in the lathes and turning section. Then I found out that the lathe was a bit too small and lightweight for my needs. If it is in sound condition I will buy it on behalf of a guy who seems to trust my judgment.

Thanks! This one is only a basic lathe without any extra accessories. I talked to the seller and found it will be on the small side for my needs. Though another forum member who lives nearby has showed some interrest in it.

I am not very interrested in turning but every now and then I need to turn some simple parts. My Taiwaneese disaster of a lathe keeps fighting me so I had already found an old a very beaten up and worn out small line shaft driven lathe with babbit bearings and all in true 19th century style. It...

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You may be right dickm It may or may not apply to the thread starter and his intended venture but in order to make a restoration viable for the customer I was forced to apply a certain level of production thinking. I didn't start that way but I learned it. There are too many variables so none...

Continuing: The spindle moulder is a very important machine when trying to turn a profit. It should be fitted with a sliding table or a solid tennoning sled. Then you can use it as a tennoner as well as for cutting rebates and profiles. A tilting spindle increases versatility but tilting...

Having gone a bit further down this road of ours (woodworking as a side income) I have some thoughts and oppinions. Take then for what they are....oppinions from a 34 years old part timer on a sick leave with time to write one's oppinions..... When setting up an one man business I find thesse...

There is always and will always be grits and dust embedded in the surface of recykled wood. Furthermore knots and the grain itself seems to become more abrassive with time. Been there tried that. If you are going to sell the furniture you need some degree of efficiency in your production...

On what scale are you working? Occasional hobby?...regular hobby?... side income?..... part time job? I think all those machines mentioned are too small for the job. it is very difficult and time consuming to surface plane a piece of wood that is longer that one and a half time the total lenght...

Do those small saws really resaw 10 inches in practise? I have been taught that for that kind of resawing you need a wide blade if you want a reasonable feed speed. A wide blade means big wheels. Is that 175 cm the ceiling height where the saw will stand or is it the height of some opening on...

The small scale industrial way would be a full size spindle moulder set up with a double roundover bit to round two edges at once plus a feedwork to feed the wood though. This would be a suitable setup for mathes between a few hundred and up to many thousand metres. For smaller batches a single...

In the inland parts of northern Sweden where jobs are scarce one can buy a small farm with barns and fields and woodlands and all for 500000 kronor (should be somewhere arond 30000-40000 pounds) and where high quality timber is cheap and plentiful there are quite a few people making a...

Unfortunately my 15 years old mobile phone has no soundmeter in it. My Stenberg KEV 600 makes quite a bit of sound in the lower part of she frequency register. Those 1500 kilos of cast iron seems to deaden a lot of the high frequency noice but one can feel a certain kind of resonance in the...

Why don't you want to buy secondhand? You say that there is no point in buying a machine with 10 years yse in it just to save a bit...... and then you want to spend quite a bit of money on an inferrior machine. A machine that will probably not last as long as a good one with some use already in...

It is possible to wear a dip in a cast iron table but it takes a lot of use. I duobt it could develop in less than 30 years even if the machine works 10 hours a day six days a week. A worn dip is easy to recognise as there are no machining marks at the lowest point. I think the cast iron has...

There are many wooden bandsaws still in use 60 or 70 or 80 years after they were made. Some earning their keep in everyday professional use. However there are many more that just stand idle in a corner because the frame has gone out of alignment over the years. Wood that is constantly under load...

Let me ramble a bit to expand the perspective...... Elderly SCM or l'Invincible combinations are usually very good quality and usually cost a good bit less than a new Felder. I know two people who have bougt old l'invincible combinations and both say the machines are excellent. I have tried one...

Have you considered secondhand? Secondhand high quality cast iron cabinet saws seem to turn up in Britain every now and the for unbelieveably low prizes. Buying a machine has has been heavily used for 30 or 40 or 70 years inevitably means that you end up spending a bit of time and money on it...

This is great .... thats the ultimate revenge =D> (hammer) :tongue9: