The Woodpecker Ep 81 - My mitre station - Part 3 

wordsnwood Hopefully I still have more than 24 of those mahogany panels. It's cheaper to cut one than to buy new, mahogany is soooo expensive. Unfortunately for me, those floring planks are my last ones :(( I really wish I can find more, I love making shop stuff with it. I wanted to record the snow sliding off the roof since december, but it's really hard to predict when the snow will go. So I was working in the shop and heard the other side sliding, so I stoped and setup the camera on the patio, 3-4 minutes later the roof started going down, I was so happy :))))

you have TWENTY-FOUR of those mahogany panels!?!?!? That is a woodworking jackpot. Wow.

wordsnwood They're not all that wide. Half of them are 30" X 96" the rest are the size of the one I used, wider but only 72". My father used to work at Ogilvy's downtown Montreal, when they changed their 100 year old cunter for glass one, they all threw them ayaw. My father kept the tops, he did nothing with them, now I'm using then for my nice furniture and, like I did, for straight wood while building fences.

***** A source of old hardwood flooring, are flooring companies that install flooring. Sometimes they get a job that calls for removing old HW flooring. Which gets hauled to the dump. Call around. Maybe even apply, if you are looking for a job. You might even score some new HW flooring scraps while you're at it.

Double Dare Fan That's a great idea, thanks.

Slowvannah Farms To be honest it was 2 planks of 24" glued together .

Peter Collin I was working inside and I head the other side of the roof coming down. After hearing that, I installed my camera on the patio and 3-4 minutes after the other side started going down. I was just plain lucky, I've been waiting for a shot like taht all winter long.

Very cool!

With all the money it cost it's hard to say if it woth the price, since I've not uses several other mitre saw. But the thing I can say are: The fact that the sliding post are in the front it's genius, the bosh I've used have it's sliding post in the back, so the saw has to be so far from a back wall it's a big waste of space. If you have to move it around it's lighter than others, but it's true it only has a 10" sawblade not a 14". The dust collection is not bad, it's not like other tools, it still throws a bit of dusts around but not a lot. The bosh I've used was harder to set for a cut that cut just part of the piece. bit it's big drawback is the hefty price, but I guess tat if you're not too concern about having the sliding post in the back a saw is a saw.

One thing for sure it's less heavier than the others I've moved around. And since I'm not getting younger I liked that.

Shane WrightThe snow has all melted now. We had several nice day, but it's almost up to the freezing point this morning...

Michael Anderson It's a stanley #95. It's comming along quite nicely thanks. But I still have some stuffto do outside and the garage door of the shed section.

Mike Gus Fifteen While building the shop last year, I give myself an elbow tedinitis. The strap helps with the pain. But now it's mostly to prevent making it worse because physio therapy helped a lot.

***** Thanks for the reply! Initially I thought it was an arm magnet so as to hold screws easier while you work! lol

***** Always serves as a good reminder to not do it again, too. I wear a wrist brace sometimes to do the same.

labigs1 This was my daughter's dog. My wife's dog don't want to come with me inside the shop... Maybe you're on to something :)

Jim E I bought it at Lee Valley (www.leevalley.com/en/hardware/page.aspx?p=41012&cat=3,41306,41328) I don't know if it's the best chamfer bit, but it really works well in big holes, where small one wouln't.

Brian Bain I always keep it handy.

+Loszmi It's a dado stack, but it's forbiden in most Europeen country.

Yes they're metal shingles. At least this will last for the rest of my life, unlike the normal ones made out of tar. I'M not sure where you can get them I ordered the whole roof at my local hardware big surface store. check the link: www.vicwest.com/residential/products/steel-roofing/summerside-steel-shingles

Just looking at you commets it shows :)) Thanks

Thanks!! I have Bosch axial glide its a great piece of kit but it weighs 65lbs and I have to move it from site to site in and out of my van and that's one of the main reasons why I'm looking at the kapex. I just can't get over the $1,920 they're asking for it. thanks once again.

Jurgen Ritzhaupt It was such a harch winter. At least now the snow here has all melted. but it's still 2 this morning brrrr.

Alai

but he's Canadian.