I finished to set a table for my drill press and jointer. Afrter that I made a small step for my two year son.

It was surprising that I could make it for a short time though before I couldn’t do anythig after a long contemplation. Perhaps It was necessary for me to rest long time.

These days I didn’t want to woodwork. I thought I lost my passion for woodworking. But it was wrong. Simply I was too tired to make any project.

Tomorrow I will get up early and finish the step for my little son “Chumaru”.

But another trouble has occured—every time I write this blog I repeat this phrase.

For UNIFENCE we must use the universal magnet bracket because the standard magnet bracket does not fit Unifence body, so I needed to bend and fabricate one using the universal bracket supplied—this bracket is only a steel strip. Then I must drill fence body and use the small self tapping screws to attach the bracket.

BUT this self tapping screws were so weak that they snapped out in the middle of tapping—two times. So I drilled three holes to fix them. I must go and buy another self tapping screw or something.

Last month I found a dealer which can send tablesaw to Japan. That was Woodcraft though they rejected my first offer. I didn’t know why they refused once, anyway I could got Jet JWTS-10 contractor’s saw . That have very smart propotion, its morter is inside of the body ! You know my shop is so small that I didn’t think that I could have a tablesaw but this one must be available enough.

Now I can get the same sized perfect square pieces at a time for my project. Before I couldn’t do it and it took hours to make even unequal unsquare pieces wiht my festool TS55.

Comparing with Before what my shop is is like a heaven so I spend far longer time in my shop.

But another problem has occured.

I bought a UNIFENCE and Wixey Digital read out, and I installed them today, they are much longer than normal fence, for my shop only 4inces are very important. With four inches I can walk through between my tablesaw and workbench but wihtout 4 inces I must crawl on the floor to get some tools.

So now I am thinking about cutting my unifence down to 28inces. —This must be O-key, maybe no problem.
But I am also thinking of cutting Wixey digital read out . —I think this must be OK too. But I am unconfident.

Is there anybody who cut wixey digital read out before ?
If there is, please let me know how to and how was it.

But now I am happier than ever before !!

1 There is a Festool dealer in Japan. But they are not serious to sell what they have. They don’t have either net shop nor a actual shop as rfar as I know.

2 In Japan Festool is very expensive. It cost more than twice as much as purchasing in USA.

3 US dealer is prohibited to sell outside of US and if by any chance I could find some dealer that can ship something to Japan confidentialy, they don’t allow me to use Japanse credit card. I must send money to them through wire transfar which cost me over $ 50 per remittance.
If I must get some important and vital item , such as dust bag, as soon as possible, I must use import agent whch charge me 15% of purchasing and incredibly expensive freight.

4 And this experience beat me hard——Festool dealer is not always so good. A month ago I ordered some items to Janan Woodworker , US Festool dealer which is in California—that must be unconcerned to Japan—maybe they only deal Japanese hand tools also, and I inform them my credit card number. After that they replied me my order was confirmed. But after that they made no action. After a week Worring about my order, I asked them three times, but no answer. It is one month since I asked them, but no answer yet. So I must call my credit card company about this matter.

There were uncountable troubles in useing or buying Festool. So I must abandon Festool. Ummmmmmmm

But I couldn’t give up, so I approached again and that shop allowed me to trade through bank wire transfer. ——that was fantastic!

But again I researched about international bank wire transfer on the internet, it seems to be very complicated.

Firstable , I must pay handling charge to Japanese bank. That will be at least $30. And apparently intermidiate agent will get a secondary handling fee—that will be from $10 to $20. At the end receiving commission is required by receiveing bank—that will be about $10. And last two handling charge is unknown to Japanese bank, they will withdraw their comission from the total amount. So I can’t know how much I must pay at first. And we can’t do it on the internet yet !——very old-fashioned way isn’t it ?

Mmmmmmm. There must be a long way !

So I made loft-like storage.

I want wide conversion lenz !

This loft made my shop large, clean and comfortable.

And is there anybody who knows why the first picture is enlarged ?

Furthermore, Festool USA might prohibits dealers to sell their items outside US. So I have no chance to buy them as far as now.

I have been looking for a dealer which can ship to Japan for two weeks ore more. But no dealer received my order.

I already have a dust-extractor CT22 with only one dust bag. I have used that dust bag for more than 2 years because I have been unable to buy a dust bag.

We Japanese amateur woodworker have a lot of trouble if we want to use what ordinary Americans use.
If I were an American or had a friend in America I could buy everything I need.

And escalating price of oil prevent me from coming shopping in the USA by myself. Thesedays traveling to the USA cost me more than $1000.

.................Hopless !

And another big project is making a good dust collection system for my delta 14” bandsaw.
It is notorious for thoughtless desining in dust collection.
I have been using it without any dust collection system so that my clothes are always dusty.
Especially in Japan we live in a house without waring shoes, dusty ware is far from popular with my family.
So I decided to make it, and it will be soon finished.
I hope it will work well.

But it wasn’t successful at all. Bit ran up within a several seconds.
Cutting some work pieces, it broke through soon before cutting only a few inches long.

After that, I replaced the collet with another one, but the same thing happened again.
While the router is running freely, nothing is wrong with it.
But once it cuts some wood, it happens again.
It seemed that the up-spiral bit “drills up” by itself because of the frinction of wood or something.

After all I replaced the bit with noromal straight bit, nothing happened again.

I think this case occurs with its spiral shape.
Must I give up the spiral bit or Makita 1101 ?

But I could finally build up all the drawers which is very poor quality for my poor skill before going work, .......though I was almost late.

This time I made box joints with my bandsaw to consider a coment from Damian. I could do with it, and its quality was little better than I thought. But it was far from precisive.

By the way, when I use my Makita 1101 with Onsurud upcut spiral bit, it’s collet chuck was loosening and bit came up to crush through a work piece. It was very so dangerous experience that I tighten it very hard.
But 20 minutes after it happened again!
Is this normal ?
Bit loosening is my first experience. I don’t know how to curb it.
Must I replace for a new one ?
Or Onsurud bit is little bit smaller than 1/4 inches ?

So I decided to buy a table saw.

Since there is no good table saw in Japan, I must buy one from the U.S.
But it is very hard for me to find a shop which can ship heavy items to Japan.

I am lost from the begininng.