Tools you might not know about

You already have me intrigued… but don’t think I can offer up any. Maybe Jojo in Japan, or some of the European LJ’s might have access to some things we haven’t seen stateside yet.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I saw the Tiger stop at a commercial wood show. They put a quarter on it’s side at the end of the stop. When the machine cycled the coin didn’t move he then put a dollar bill up beside the quarter. On the next cycle the quarter was knocked down. The thickness of the paper on a bill.

Quite impressive.

The denailer looks interesting also. I saw it about 6 months ago.

Lee-Valley Dowel making jig.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

4. Tiger stop – sounds cool, I’ll check it out.
5. Lee Valley Dowel making jig.

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

Well it should be an interesting article.

-- Maplewood, MN

Stroke sander. Much better than a drum sander for general sanding. Not designed for thicknessing but does a superior job of removing planer marks and allows one to send the piece right to finishing. A drum sander requires additional hand or random orbit sanding to remove drum ripples. A good wiedbelt also can also do finish sanding if it has a sanding platen. Stroke sanders are still comonly listed inmany woodworking catalogs such as Grizzly, Minimax, Progress, Woodworkers Supply but I don’t think most folks even notice them.

A stoke sander can deal with cross sanding on panel doors. We often used flexible J weight belts for contour sanding of profiled edges such as a radiused table top edge. See the graphite mitt for a new meaning of hand sanding.
http://www.proengcorp.com/graphite_accessories.htm#top%20of%20page
I’ve also used them in custom metal shops on everything from brass, bronze casings and stainless steel for very specialized metal finishes.

cool, thanks!

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Hi Jude;

Nothing other than to thank you for including me in your list.

I’ll try to give it some thought though.

Thanks again;

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Nothing to add to the list but interested in seeing what makes the, ummm… cut!

-- Tim D. - Woodstock, GA

jude,

My dad gave me a hand-held Moto-tool fret/scroll saw. I’ve never seen one anywhere else. It’s like a scroll saw but hand-held. Mototool still make blades that will fit it. I’ll try to post a picture of it.

-- Sam

oh cool, i’d love to see a photo

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

I’ll try to get one tonight

-- Sam

How about the antiques? The original LumberJocks didn’t have the luxury of “electricity”, ya know? So here’s my suggestions:

Froe, Spokeshave, Commander, Adze, Draw knife, and the ever popular Henway.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

I’ll go with those…but…what are they?

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

Dadoo.. don’t forget the Pepsicost.

-- Andy Stark

Hi Jude;

I can tell you what’s a henway.

‘bout two pounds. LOL

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

;0)

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

jude,
I posted a picture of the “Motosaw’ by Dremel on my review section.

-- Sam

Jude:
This is a new tool that puts a new spin on dovetails. I saw it in FWW, but at any rate, it will dovetail unlimited width stock and is relatively cheap @ $100. It’s called the Chestmate. Just throwin it out there.

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

I saw the Chestmate at a woodworking show and it seems impressive. But, I don’t believe that it does variable thickness of pins and tails easily.

It was reviewed in one of the woodworking magazines reciently also.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Hey Jude, A Froe is used to split logs and make shingles. A Spokeshave and drawknife and Adze shape/debark logs. And the Commander is that huge hammer the bad guy was using in that Arnold Swarzenegger movie “Conan” as a simple way to get his point across. Actually the same thing is used in beam construction to nudge those heavy timbers into the right place. Also good for squashing things, like cans, bottles, failed projects, annoying little neighbors dogs, etc. A Pepsicost is the same as a Cokecost, but much less than a Beercost.

And a NY Henway is 4-6lbs. NJ people confuse hens with squab.

Have a great day!

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

leave it to the mad scientist ;0)
You guys make coming to work more fun. Thanks!

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

How about a scorp?

-- Maplewood, MN

What’s a scorp?

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

Scorp

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

How about Stots Dovetail Template Stots.Com
It is a template that you use to make a template to cut dovetails.

The main things going for it are price ( $40) and essentially unlimited width capability. I used it to make dovetails for a blanket chest ( 18” deep). It also allows you to make a template you can use on a router table. I find this handy. Also, once you have a template you can reuse it as much as you want ( nothing to set up ).

On the down side. It only does thru dovetails. Spacing is a multiple of 1”. Don’t let the router eat the original template you use to make your own templates.

It works as advertised. Check out this Demo site.

-- Leon -- Houston, TX - " I create all my own designs and it looks like it "

Another Scorp.

-- Maplewood, MN

I like the photo of that one Rikkor.

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

Oh, I recall Christopher Schwarz once wrote about Floats. Kinda in the plane/rasp family, from what I recall. Was also talking about hand made (random tooth pattern rasps) and rifflers, but I’ve never seen a picture of the float. His article made me want – NEED – all of em though. But Santa couldn’t fine em either.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Here are some photos of floats

http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?cat=542

http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?cat=534

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Here’s the first 10 tools article: http://www.toologics.com/News/TopTenLists/10ToolsYouMightNotKnowAbout_20080215556.html

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

Hi Jude;

I just checked out your tools article. Very nicely done!

And as always, THANK YOU for including my product in your list.

Our new method of manufacturing has made them even better than before, and thanks to comments from a recent random customer survey, we’ll be working on additional features for the future.

A public THANK YOU to a lumber jocks member, Myron Wooley, and customer of Ezee-Feed responded to the survey with the eye of an engineer, obviously spent a fair amount of time on his response, and came up with several ideas for me to improve our units upon.

Again, thank you Jude.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Sweet! I’m glad the Ezee-Feed is starting to take off for you.
and Wayne ~ thanks for posting all those great photos of the floats.

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

I’m so sorry! i’ll fix that in the article asap.

-- life can always be weaved into a song.