Greetings and salutations!
I stumbled across your forum looking for advice on how to adjust the Biesemeyer home series fence on this tablesaw:
Some work I was doing indicated that I was not getting parallel cuts with it.
I found a nice discussion in this thread:
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f31-power-tools-their-use/biesemeyer-fence-adjustment-14726.html
Thanks!
Anyway, a little about myself, originally from New Orleans, my family and I moved to Northern Virginia after living through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I was born and raised in New Orleans, but realized it was time to go.
I had done a fair bit of woodworking in New Orleans, spurred on by the Craftsman tools that I inherited from my Grandfather. He was a boat builder who made pirogues and Lafitte skiffs in a small shop in his back yard. By all accounts he was very good at it and made a good living.
With the relocation up here, I gained a space for a real workshop in the basement. The house we owned in New Orleans had a large garage, but the cars parked in it so anything of significance resulted in moving the cars out, working, moving them back, etc. As a result, I generally would only do large project occasionally. Having a workshop really changes the dynamic. It's a small space, but having all the stationary tools set up and ready to go makes it much more conducive to working on projects in small bites. I can be in the middle of something and just turn off the lights and close the door until next time.
As I said, I've become something of an old tool collector since being up here. CL is relatively active source for old tools. I've acquired a 16" Walker Turner bandsaw, which I rehabbed last year and it's awesome. I got a Craftsman 10" cabinet saw for $20 last year and it's in the rehab queue, and finally I've got a cute little 12" art deco bandsaw that I've finished the rehab and am trying to decided on a design for the base.
One of the tools inherited from my Grandfather was a Stanley #8 plane. My dad gave it to me when I was in New Orleans and to be honest I didn't pay too much attention to it at the time. It went in a drawer with a bunch of other tools.
Once we moved up here, we lived in a rental unit for about 6 months while looking for a house to buy. Unfortunately for my wallet, during that time, I discovered the Woodnet forums. I was reading a thread one day about the most desirable handplane types and the words Type 11 kept popping up. It got me to thinking about that #8 that was now in storage.
Some time later when it came time to unpack all the goodies to move in I realized that the #8 was indeed a Type 11. I did a cursory sharpening (had virtually no sharpening resources at the time) and gave the plane a quick trial. Swoosh it went and I was hooked.
So the quest began for planes. E-Bay was my avenue for this and I bought a bunch of them. Most were pretty good, all needed love and attention, but I managed to put together a fairly comprehensive set of planes that I'm only now really getting a chance to learn how to use.
I like the spirit of your forums with the local content. It's an interesting philisophy. I'll lurk for a while to get the flavor and hopefully I'll be able to make a positive contribution. I'm a pretty active participant on Woodnet as they are a great group of folks and hope to find the same camaraderie here.
cheers
chris
I stumbled across your forum looking for advice on how to adjust the Biesemeyer home series fence on this tablesaw:
Some work I was doing indicated that I was not getting parallel cuts with it.
I found a nice discussion in this thread:
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f31-power-tools-their-use/biesemeyer-fence-adjustment-14726.html
Thanks!
Anyway, a little about myself, originally from New Orleans, my family and I moved to Northern Virginia after living through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I was born and raised in New Orleans, but realized it was time to go.
I had done a fair bit of woodworking in New Orleans, spurred on by the Craftsman tools that I inherited from my Grandfather. He was a boat builder who made pirogues and Lafitte skiffs in a small shop in his back yard. By all accounts he was very good at it and made a good living.
With the relocation up here, I gained a space for a real workshop in the basement. The house we owned in New Orleans had a large garage, but the cars parked in it so anything of significance resulted in moving the cars out, working, moving them back, etc. As a result, I generally would only do large project occasionally. Having a workshop really changes the dynamic. It's a small space, but having all the stationary tools set up and ready to go makes it much more conducive to working on projects in small bites. I can be in the middle of something and just turn off the lights and close the door until next time.
As I said, I've become something of an old tool collector since being up here. CL is relatively active source for old tools. I've acquired a 16" Walker Turner bandsaw, which I rehabbed last year and it's awesome. I got a Craftsman 10" cabinet saw for $20 last year and it's in the rehab queue, and finally I've got a cute little 12" art deco bandsaw that I've finished the rehab and am trying to decided on a design for the base.
One of the tools inherited from my Grandfather was a Stanley #8 plane. My dad gave it to me when I was in New Orleans and to be honest I didn't pay too much attention to it at the time. It went in a drawer with a bunch of other tools.
Once we moved up here, we lived in a rental unit for about 6 months while looking for a house to buy. Unfortunately for my wallet, during that time, I discovered the Woodnet forums. I was reading a thread one day about the most desirable handplane types and the words Type 11 kept popping up. It got me to thinking about that #8 that was now in storage.
Some time later when it came time to unpack all the goodies to move in I realized that the #8 was indeed a Type 11. I did a cursory sharpening (had virtually no sharpening resources at the time) and gave the plane a quick trial. Swoosh it went and I was hooked.
So the quest began for planes. E-Bay was my avenue for this and I bought a bunch of them. Most were pretty good, all needed love and attention, but I managed to put together a fairly comprehensive set of planes that I'm only now really getting a chance to learn how to use.
I like the spirit of your forums with the local content. It's an interesting philisophy. I'll lurk for a while to get the flavor and hopefully I'll be able to make a positive contribution. I'm a pretty active participant on Woodnet as they are a great group of folks and hope to find the same camaraderie here.
cheers
chris