This channel was created so my Father living far away could see what I was doing. The vids shows my interest in my shop, woodworking , float tube and fly fishing, fly tying, and a little backpacking and camping. I guess I'm like the guy in the garage across the street, willing to share what he's doing and how he does it. I'm no professional so there may be a better way to do something, so you can decide what would work for you. I do what seems to work for me and lets me get things done. I hope a viewer gets something out of the vids on either what to do...or what not to do.
Boy, do I recognise your thought process. From ~1980 to the mid 90's, I was a boat carpenter. I never saw a splitter or a riving knife, or that plastic POS. Still have all my fingers, but there were some close encounters with kickbacks, all but one were friendly fire. It is amazing the velocity they can get up to. Early on I learned never to stand directly behind the blade, to lock a finger or two over the fence to prevent my fingers falling into the blade when a kickback dematerialized the wood, to make sure that both front and back were securely held down, etc. Now as I approach 80 I have my hobby shop. Picked up a 70's Delta Rockwell Unisaw a while ago. With a little massaging it's now a nice saw. Realizing that my chops were probably deteriorating with age, I did what you did, I put a splitter exactly where you did. it may be safer now... If you aren't cutting through the board, and the cut is shallower than the splitter is tall then you have to remove the splitter. A pain. Maybe a riving knife is a better solution, but it would be much harder to implement, dunno. A few years ago the motor died. A new one was surprisingly expensive, but I found a 3 phase motor from a Delta 14", it bolted right on. Even after buying a VFD, I saved ~$250. It is a 5 hp motor, I think the old one was 2hp... Had to figure how to get the speed in the right range, when I commissioned it it hit about 25,000 RPM, scared the crap out of me. It now runs about 3 k, but it's still a little scary, absolutely nothing slows it down.
I just bought a brand new Craftsman 315.228310, and the "knife" and blade cover on it is... well... a pain in the 🍑 ! After fiddling around with so many different styles of DIY splitters and knives, i ended up just making several zero clearance plates with different shapes/styles mounted to them for angles most commonly used. I currently have 22 zero clearance plates made from mostly aluminum stock, but a few phenolic, corian, UHMW, and HDPE . Sometimes i think " Maybe that doctor that said Im on the autosm spectrum wasnt full of 💩?" 😂😂😂 ... 😢😢
I’m sold. I’ve been replacing a lot of my tools with grizzly. I just bought their 40th anniversary 2hp 17” bandsaw for my shop. Every time I use it I have a smile on my face….lol
Mike, I love the fact you shared your grandfathers flies with us. I am currently building a fly tying station for our shop. I too have some of my grandads old lures etc. I have made a spot in my station, that I used a router to make a small circle in the wood, put one of his lure in it, and just finished pouring the last tope coat of epoxy to finish it off. I think it will turn out nicely. I do have some air bubbles in the edges, hopefully I can sand them out, not sure, I am still new to working with epoxy. Great job on this station sir, it looks pretty sweet and rwill be greatly organized. I dont like looking for tools, so organized is a great option. Thanks agian for taking the time to share this with us. I am more of a crappie and panfish fisherman being in East Texas, so even though it is not true trout fishing fly fishing, but I love to fly fish out of my kayak, so that is part of what I make in the shop as well is crappie jigs panfish jigs etc. Thanks agin an keep up the fun videos sir. Have a blessed week. dale
I have a splitter like the one you have with the clear plastic and it comes with anti-kickback pawls. It attaches to the back but the front just rests on the table.
You do have to spend some time setting the saw up... blade, fence, etc. But once done, the saw is great. Fairly compact which is Nice ru-vid.comUgkxXh-4_3-ZT1fFWP91ZV7iVqzElr0lEb-a I did get an Incra Miter Gauge which takes some setup as well. The stock miter gauge can be adjusted in the miter slot with a little painter's tape... this tightens up the side to side play a lot.
I know it's an old video, but gonna comment anyway. Looking for my Unisaw to put a splitter/riving knife/zero clearance insert on it. It's similar to yours, and had the same setup for a blade guard, but, of course, I removed it for the same reasons as you did. Recently had a kickback that hit me in the stomach, tore a piece of my hand between thumb and palm out, and continued on to explode off the wall.....not the first kickback I've had, but one that made me decide to get a splitter/riving knife setup installed NOW. I am probably gonna just use some 1/8" mild steel I have to shape it, but the hamburger flipper might be more practical and durable. I like the rambling and anecdotal stories, in spite of complainers who are always in a hurry........and will suffer the wake-up call of a kickback in their haste.........ROFL.
I made a bag out of hardware screen(nylon mesh) door mesh. about 8x16 with a loop on the top on both side of the bag. I clip a Polyrope to this with a SS carabiner. Drop it over ths side and tie it off to a niteize figure 9. It works. Just have to pick up a few pounds of rock and put them in the bag. when I am done I dump the rocks and have to only carry af few oz of weight. I use a pontoon boat.
Привет из России! Спасибо за классные видео. Хочется узнать, все ли в порядке у автора канала. Mike, hi from Russia. Thank you for your videos. Are you here? Are you OK?
Interesting. Seems like the easiest way to show what it does is simply run it with the vac and look at what's in the vac. Whatever's in there would have been in your shop.
I own both sizes of this system. I can make it work well. That said, I recommend the Leigh system. It has its own quirks, but at least their still in business!
Nice build ...i plan to make one myself one day , for now im using a Oasis compact tying tray/ desk . Its small ( 12" x 7" ) but it works great . Im using it in my travels. I just added onto it a drawer on the bottom to stash all my tools . Ok thanks for the videos and build tips 👍
A trick i learned is to use the same exact miter slot you used to mic the blade to also mic the fence. The miter slots are to be assumed they are perfectly 100% parallel but reality is they are not. (Granted they may only be off a few thousandths). Love your down to earth easy to understand vifeos
Great video. I like how you describe kickbacks and other realities about bulky fogged up guards. You're right man, when that wood kicks back its loud and shows no mercy. Had a peice fly once splitting open a couple knuckles and badly bruising my whole hand...and after all that it still kept flying denting my garage door. Mean and wicked for sure! Great mod to an old classic saw.
Hello are you going to show how to mount it on the wall?I really like your ironing board I believe I will make myself one!!!thank you for sharing!!!❤️❤️God Bless!!!
I'm glad you got them. I was told by an elderly, very respectable craftsman that when you purchase tools, it should be a little painful. Remember good tools will last longer than we do if we take good care of them. Congratulations!!!
You say you're not a good worker, but you're retired, and you're certainly a master of your craft in restoring a complex tool. Much respect, and you are a better worker than you give yourself credit.
I have that old contractor saw. I thought the front of the miter was what determined its 'squareness'. I took some time to adjust that and it works fine. Just for those out there that have that saw. Also made the plastic shroud removable with a pin and occasionally use the 'splitter'. So when you talk splitters you have my attention.
As an apprentice years ago, I saw many 'C' planes (corrugated) but they all seem to have gone away now. The idea behind the corrugation was to reduce friction in use, having less surface contact with an equal amount of area in contact. When it comes to block planes, I find that most RU-vid woodworkers seem to hate them. As for me, I bought one when doing my apprenticeship way back in the late 70's and I still have it and use it on almost every carpentry job (not joinery job). I swear by it - a Stanley G12-220, made in England stamped into it. It looks battered but is as good today as it was when new, under all the wear and tear. That little thing has done some huge work in it's time and is still going strong. It has been with me all over UK and into Europe; never let me down. Easy to maintain, fits in my pouch, always at hand, lightweight and always sharp, one-handed use; what more could you want on the job when time is money?
Ah, Zorotools! I've bought from them, they are also here in UK on eBay. Never a problem with their stuff to date. To be fair, that is a beautiful set. I've been in the trade for well over 40 years and I have never come across a deal like that for socket chisels, especially in recent times. Stanley, made in England, sounds like Sheffield to me. I've recently bought a set of 6 tang chisels made by a small company still operating in Sheffield (one of their football teams - soccer in USA - are not called 'The Blades' for nothing!). There are even still some big companies using Sheffield steel blades and a lot of small companies around UK use Sheffield steel blades and edges - kitchen ware, outdoor knives, woodworking tools and so on.
Hi mate, I always find that even a fairly decent old Stanley will take me at least a couple of hours to 'personalise' and anything up to 5 or even 6 hours if not in such great shape but I guess a younger person with better eyes and hands would do it in maybe 25% less time. Even brand new planes can take me 2 hours to set up to my own preference, depending on the quality of the manufacture these days. I've never yet had a hand plane (of any brand) that has not needed at least some fettling to break it in. Great playlist, very rewarding to watch. I love to see as many methods as possible to restore old hand tools. Even at my age, there's still stuff to learn!
I have this and it works for me too. That said, you dont need this over a rod brnisher and it takes away from knowing your tools. Setting up a scraper whit a file, wheatstone and burnisher will give you a lot better control over the cutting burr at the scraper edge. Veritas has nice tools, some of the best, but they also sell a lot of solutions to problems that doesnt really exist. If you are a beginner to woodworking and have a problem eyeballing 5, 10 or 15 degrees with a 20 cm long burnisher at a straight edge, when you ABSOLUTELY DONT NEED THIS!!! Put some courage and effort to it and I promise you will learn the traditional method in notime, and get the best scraper results ever!
Love the real world, down-to-earth wisdom. Such beauty with technical performance and sensible timescales, realistic tools etc. I've purchased quite a few hand planes via E-Bay; Covid lockdown gave me the time to restore them and get them all working like a dream. But none of them LOOK as amazing as that No.3. Chapter 2 begins... You're a star, thank you.
Very informative. Thank you so much. just picked up this hobby by a fluke really. My landlord and me were in his old shed and I noticed an old hand plane. It was in very rough shape but it intrigued me. It was his grandfathers who was a wooden boatbuilder in Newfoundland and it had been left to his dad and then to him. An old Stanley #5 with a chipped tote and a ton of rust. I had just retired and was looking for something to do and asked if he would let me try to restore it as best I could. His reply! He started digging around and I ended up with 4 planes and a spoke shave. Been an interesting journey and I'm afraid I'm hooked, not that I mind. Not nearly as efficient as your own self but that is why I enjoyed your videos so much. I'm sure I will enjoy your continuing series. Take care and have a LARGE day!
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