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Sawinery Woodworking Guild

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26 contributions to Sawinery Woodworking Guild
Tool Review
Anyone in the market for a benchtop style jointer? If so - I just got one and have been extremely happy with the quality and performance. I'm guessing a lot of us are in a similar situation with limited space in our workshops so a big ol' floor standing jointer is a big commitment. People sometimes scoff at benchtop jointers because they wont be as accurate/straight/true whatever on long stock. I get that, but I got this new benchtop jointer and have been super happy with it! The model I got is the 12 inch spiral cutter head benchtop jointer with cast iron tables from Cutech (cutechtools.us). It has some supports to hold longer stock inline with the beds and I think that really helps it punch above it's weight class when it comes to straightening/flattening long stock. The super wide bed is awesome too! Spiral cutterheads are a fantastic upgrade compared to straight blades and this one performs wonderfully. It leaves an incredibly smooth surface. I was also super surprised, and this might not always be the case, but mine came perfectly level/coplanar right out of the box! Anyway - just wanted to share this brand with you guys since I hadn't heard much about it before I got this tool. I would highly recommend!
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Me making a stool
This is my first time woodworking and I made a lot of mistakes haha
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Me making a stool
1 like • May 14
very cool filming and editing! Plus you didn't over complicate the stool. That was a fun video to watch!
What's Everyone Working On?
I'd love to see more of you posting your projects. We want to see what you're working on; share in your triumphs and tragedies. Preferably more of the former and less of the later.
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2 likes • Apr 24
Finished my son's bed. It has stairs with drawers under them for storage, a slide that's probably a bit too steep, but I guess it'll toughen him up 😂, a lofted play area, LED lights, and a bookshelf that is a secret door to a small room under the slide for him to hang out and read books or draw or whatever he wants to do. Huge project that took a long time but my dad came and helped a bunch and it turned out really dang cool if you ask me.
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What Are Your Questions?
Hey everyone, I assume you've seen our video shorts on YouTube, or one of the other social media platforms. If not, search for "Sawinery" on YouTube. We've currently got well over 100 shorts posted. We're using those as a platform to teach people woodworking techniques and share ideas. That's where you come in. Do you have any questions that you'd like Rich (yeah, me) to answer in those shorts? We're always looking for good ideas and would love to be able to answer questions that our members might have. In the mean time, keep making sawdust out there. We all need to have our daily requirement of sawdust fulfilled.
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2 likes • Apr 24
Do you have an easy way to clean saw blades without buying one of those green things from Microjig?
3 likes • Apr 24
also, how do you know when your router bits are dull and either need to be cleaned or replaced?
Circular Saw vs. Table Saw
One of the first tools any woodworker needs is a good saw. What kind of saw we buy often depends on the budget we have available to us. Like many woodworkers, I started out with only hand power tools (back then there weren’t any cordless ones) and no stationary tools. Although I had learned woodworking from my dad and used his table saw, I couldn’t afford one myself. Of course, I was a teen at the time, just having moved out of the house and working my first real job. Paying the bills and buying food pretty much ate up whatever money I had. But not everyone who starts out in woodworking is in that same predicament. I’ve run across many woodworkers who are retired and just starting out their woodworking journey. For them, the issue isn’t buying the cheapest thing they can, which will do the job; but rather buying the best thing for their needs as beginning woodworkers. So, should someone in that situation buy a circular saw or a table saw? The first thing we have to understand about the two, is that they aren’t really the same tool. I mean, the circular saw isn’t just a portable table saw. While the blades look more or less the same, other than size, the table and the fence give a table saw much more capability than a circular saw. It is the table and fence that make the table saw the most versatile saw in the workshop, able to do much more than just make straight cuts. While table saws were once considered useful only for ripping boards and breaking down sheets of plywood, today they are used for many more tasks, like cutting tenons, crosscutting, making miters and making keyed spline joints. This wide variety of tasks, and more, is possible due to various sleds and jigs that woodworkers have developed for use with their table saws. On the other hand, the circular saw is actually a carpenter’s tool, designed for cutting dimensional lumber quickly. It excels in cutting through 2x4s and larger boards. Carpenters also use it for cutting plywood, but they generally aren’t looking for the degree of accuracy that woodworkers are. For the most part, ± 1/8” is accurate enough for carpentry work.
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I agree - with edge guides and tracks etc. you can get pretty repeatable cuts with a circular saw, but not as easily or accurately as a table saw. Plus a table saw is easier to set up bevel cuts and dados with specific depths etc. One big caveat, though, is space. If you don't want to give up a stall of your garage for woodworking - and you aren't looking for dead-on precision - a circular takes up way less space. Some jobsite table saws are relatively small, but they also usually come with a pretty small capacity for the rip fence. Also, I don't know if I'm just a weeny, but I have no idea how people break down a full sheet of 3/4" plywood on a table saw by themselves. That's just a giant, heavy, awkward workpiece to try to hold against the fence and push through the blade in a perfectly straight line. I guess my suggestion would be: buy a nice table saw and if you're budget doesn't allow for a nice circular saw as well, find a cheap one somewhere or buy a used one. You can probably find one for around $30 that will get plywood down to manageable sized pieces. (lastly - not affiliated in any way - try out the kreg rip cut jig. I just got one and used it for my kid's bunk bed/loft project and it made things significantly easier and more accurate!)
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@Rich Murphy I just got a new tracksaw from Evolution. It's basically a circular saw with a base that fits on a track so dust collection and plunging capabilities aren't really comparable to like a makita or festool tracksaw, but this thing is a fraction of the cost of those others and it feels very nice quality. I got the really long tracks which are like $150, but you can get a saw with short tracks for only $159 in a package. The saw is on sale with no tracks right now for only $80 so with the long tracks its ~230. WEN has one in this price range that might be nice, too - but I just thought I'd hop on here to say my initial impressions are very high on this budget option!
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