On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:25:46AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > For pure woodworking (as opposed to, say, surface prep prior to > > repainting something on the house), I don't use sandpaper at all. My > > shop doesn't have it. I use scrapers if I need or, or leave a true > > planed surface. > > Nice way to take my analogy as a means to veer wildly OT ;-)
There's a thinn veneer of T if you hook the router up to your debian box for CNC :) > > I'm no fan of sandpaper unless it's attached to a machine to do the > sanding for me. I love a planed or scraped surface but have little > opportunity to produce one. > How sad. > > By the time you buy a router and either buy or build a good solid router > > table, you could have bought a 2 HP shaper. The only advantage to the > > router route :) is to have a portable router or if you are in an > > apartment where plunking a 500# machine down in the spare bedroom would > > go over like, well, a 500# shop tool. > > If you can only have one tool, a decent router is a good choice. I > don't disagree about the shaper vs router and table, but it's really > hard to: trim laminate, edge or groove large panels, make key-holes, > mortise hinge plates, etc. At a minimum (for the work I do, anyway) > I'd need a nice laminate trimmer. and probably a router as well. MIght > as well just use the router which does all those things reasonably > well for a lot less money (up front). If you can only have one woodworking tool, make it a combination stone. Then you can make every other tool eventually. To make life easier, if you can only have one tool, make it a vertical milling machine. You can then make a metal lathe and between the two, you can make anything in the world, eventually. > > > > > While we're at it, I'm not a fan of the table saw either. They only > > come into their own with sheet stock; I never use sheet stock. For > > solid stock, I used the bandsaw then cleaned it up on the jointer or > > shaper, back when I had a full shop. Now I just do it by hand. > > huh. I use my table saw for everything. I"ve even made cove moldings > on it. But, to paraphrase someone else, when its the only tool you > have, everything begins to look like sheet stock. To each their own > though. Yeah, if your work revolves around sheet-stock and laminates, then a table saw and router are the way to go. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
