What tool did you buy today?

[Jmac80]

Christmas presents for myself :ho2

Seneca Parallel Guide System for Festool Guide Rail
INCRA - 48" T-Track Plus (Metric Scale)
INCRA - 24" T-Track Plus (Metric Scale)
Woodpecker Woodworking Rule - 1200mm
Woodpecker Woodworking Rule - 900mm
Woodpecker Woodworking Rule - 600mm
Woodpecker Woodworking Rule - 300mm
Woodpecker Ruler Stop 2
Woodpecker Hook Stop

:deer

Where did you order the Seneca PGS Jmac80.........and how much please?

Hello Roughcut
I ordered it from their website http://www.senecawoodworking.com/produc ... track-plus, it cost's $17 to get it sent over (seems standard price for all their items)
I waited till black Friday to order as i knew they would be doing a discount.
Just enter discount code "blackfriday2015" at checkout. and you will get 20% off
I have placed about 5 separate orders from Seneca over the last year and have never once got hit with import charges (touch wood)
The total delivered to me was:

Discounts : $-37.99 USD
Subtotal : $151.96 USD
Shipping : $17.00 USD
Total : $168.96 USD
168.96 USD = 112.393 GBP

Cheers

 

[Woodmonkey]

Feeding my festool fetish (festish?)
My ancient cheapo vac has finally died so splashed out on a midi, love that I can stack my systainers on it when working in tiny bedrooms.

 

[Benchwayze]

I've just received my jig for fitting drawer runners.

Not tried it yet, but it looks the business.

Jonny

In the market for one of them myself, what one did you get?

Assuming you mean drawer extension slide?

I bought the Kreg Locator. Never used it, so far, and stayed with the way Highland Woodworker does it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy72BfqSX4I

HTH

 

[Jmac80]

Benchwayze I was looking for the kreg one but they seemed to stop making it.

Nothing too exciting with my latest purchases

Festool KAPEX Fine tooth saw blade 260x2,5x30 W80
Festool CARVEX Jigsaw blade S 145/4 FSG 5X

 

[MusicMan]

Bought the Simon James forged holdfasts from Workshop Heaven. Extremely impressed! So convenient in use.

I tried the 'traditional' method of holding a workpiece down with a notched board and a holdfast (see http://www.theenglishwoodworker.com/the ... ten-video/) and am so impressed. I'll never use the tailvice and dogs for this again (though the tailvice has other uses). This gives a very firm grip with no racking at all, faster to operate especially when changing sizes and gives the full support of the solid bench top to the work.

Keith

 

[ColeyS1]

I bought a Bosch GTS 10 XC off a forum member and I must say I'm incredibly impressed, made short work of big chunks of mahogany and ripped a worktop so cleanly I couldn't believe it, I'd only ever cut a kitchen worktop once with a home base skill saw, it was dreadful.... The laminate chipped all over and I truly believed it was impossible to cut a veneered surface without specialist machinery.

Not try to teach you to suck eggs but did you cut the worktop bottom side up? I try and avoid fitting worktops if I can. Even the thought of chipping a joint makes me cringe

Coley

 

[skipdiver]

I bought a Bosch GTS 10 XC off a forum member and I must say I'm incredibly impressed, made short work of big chunks of mahogany and ripped a worktop so cleanly I couldn't believe it, I'd only ever cut a kitchen worktop once with a home base skill saw, it was dreadful.... The laminate chipped all over and I truly believed it was impossible to cut a veneered surface without specialist machinery.

Not try to teach you to suck eggs but did you cut the worktop bottom side up? I try and avoid fitting worktops if I can. Even the thought of chipping a joint makes me cringe

Coley

Yeah, it's scary on an expensive one. A lot of kitchen fitters i know get someone in to do the worktops now. A couple of guys have set up just doing that and they are in great demand. They make few bob too.

As for tools. We were given a free screwdriver and bit set today at our new branch of Toolstation if that counts.

 

[beganasatree]

Hi Steve,
If I had to get someone to do my worktops I would not and should not call myself a kitchen fitter.

Peter.

 

[skipdiver]

Hi Steve,
If I had to get someone to do my worktops I would not and should not call myself a kitchen fitter.

Peter.

Agreed. I do my own as it's all part of the job. Some lads i know work for a large housebuilder and they go in, fit the cabinets and onto the next one. Someone else follows to do the worktops and then another to do the tiling. When they do private work, they now get the same guys to fit their worktops. I think they have just got into that bish bash bosh, speed is everything mentality. It's not for me.

 

[Mr_P]

Arrived today, wood carvers vice
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161909928722? ... EBIDX%3AIT

I'm not a carver but I've been having a few minor problems with my back so thought this might help to lift the work a bit higher.

 

[Mark A]

I picked up an old, metal-bodied 3/8" B&D drill today. I'm guessing it was made in the 40s, going by my other tools of similar vintage. It's single speed and has no reverse so admittedly its uses are limited, but despite everything I'm already fond of it.

Certainly one to add to the queue for restoration.

 

[wallace]

Mmmm Wadkin

 

[memzey]

What is that Mark? Some kind of mini-overhead router?

Edit; never mind just seen your post on the Canadian site. Nice find!

 

[Benchwayze]

I picked up an old, metal-bodied 3/8" B&D drill today. I'm guessing it was made in the 40s, going by my other tools of similar vintage. It's single speed and has no reverse so admittedly its uses are limited, but despite everything I'm already fond of it.

Certainly one to add to the queue for restoration.

Mark,


With a good selection of 'accessories'; attachments for circular saw, jig-saw, mini lathe bed, drill stand, and morticing attachment, my old Stanley-Bridges drill served me well for my furniture making activities in the 1960s. The attachments merely took the grunt out of prepping TBH, but still got me through and kept me woodworking. Also I often chucked the bits from my Yankee Screwdriver, for the heavy work with large fastenings!
So not really limited at all!

I still have the drill in working order; just needs a cord extension, which I might look into!

Cheers

 

[Mark A]

Hi John,

I see those old Stanley-Bridges drills and accessories pop up on eBay all the time.

Although it was obviously a compromise, it sounds like your drill/saw/ lathe/morticer was pretty capable.

I might just buy one for the sheer hell of it, if I can find it cheap enough.

Cheers,
Mark

 

[custard]

What is that Mark? Some kind of mini-overhead router?

It's a pin router.

Twenty or thirty years ago they were really common, nowadays I hardly ever see one. I guess bearing mounted spiral bits have taken over for template copy routing, or for a slightly higher quality finish a ring fence on a spindle moulder does the same job.

I guess in another twenty years CNC will have taken over this function, then you'd just need a "virtual" template and the accuracy level will go up another step!

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

For production work I reckon a pin router is probably quicker than CNC. Lots of advantages over bearing bits too - that'll likely be a very handy tool. Nice.

 

[LewisM]

I just bought this 26" wooden jointers plane for £45 shipped!

This will be the first wooden plane I've used / owned so I'm going to spend a bit of time learning how they work, but is there any initial things I should watch out for?

 

[Droogs]

Nice one. I have a couple of peugot freres planes, my fav being my double T&G . just remember they have a whole lot less friction than a metal plane. skinned a few knuckles in my time when i forget

 

[wallace]

What is that Mark? Some kind of mini-overhead router?

It's a pin router.

Twenty or thirty years ago they were really common, nowadays I hardly ever see one. I guess bearing mounted spiral bits have taken over for template copy routing, or for a slightly higher quality finish a ring fence on a spindle moulder does the same job.

I guess in another twenty years CNC will have taken over this function, then you'd just need a "virtual" template and the accuracy level will go up another step!

Its not a pin router its a high precision bench drill