glenn bradley
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Lost my wife's oldest brother to COVID a few days ago. Not really what I wanted for a first project but the shop is functional so we offered. Its been a couple of years so I did a mock up in poplar. This let me shake some of the cobwebs loose as well as get a go-ahead on the basic design.
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With that out of the way I got to go through some material for the first time in too long. Chose some sapele and some birds-eye maple.
Those who have an i-box are familiar with the rooster tail of spoil that can get ejected out of the rear. The mock up left a snow drift of spoil behind the saw despite dust collection. I decided to do a field mod on the i-box.
Locate one post piece from an old monitor stand (they came with multiple post pieces that stacked for different heights). Bore a matching hole of an appropriate depth.
Attach shop vac.
Much less spoil on the floor after the same operations with the sapele.
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With that out of the way I got to go through some material for the first time in too long. Chose some sapele and some birds-eye maple.
Those who have an i-box are familiar with the rooster tail of spoil that can get ejected out of the rear. The mock up left a snow drift of spoil behind the saw despite dust collection. I decided to do a field mod on the i-box.
Locate one post piece from an old monitor stand (they came with multiple post pieces that stacked for different heights). Bore a matching hole of an appropriate depth.
Attach shop vac.
Much less spoil on the floor after the same operations with the sapele.
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cont'd ...