ShopNotes Podcast E197: Better Than a Colonoscopy
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- On this week’s episode of the ShopNotes Podcast, John and Phil catch up with Logan on the latest with the Woodsmith Shop TV show and all things in the woodworking magazine world.
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My first major power tool purchase was a Shopsmith back in 1986. It is a great machine, especially since I only had enough space in my shop for one tool, and with the Shopsmith I got several tools in one footprint. My shop space has expanded and over the 30+ years since, I have purchased several other stationary tools, but the Shopsmith remains as my drill press, lathe, and disk sander.
If you had to say, which mode is it set up for most often? Did you ever use it in the slot mortiser role?
Despite all the talk of tenoning jigs and methods, no one invoked, (at least by about the 24-minute mark), the name of the oracle, the teacher and user of THE tenoning jig on that inspiring show that is making a comeback on UA-cam.
p.s. Windsor, Ontario, Canada is due south of Detroit, Logan.
True story. Norm made great use of the tenoning jig. And his was one of those cast iron behemoths. My only beef with the cast iron ones is that you couldn't adjust the jig for cutting the end shoulders without moving the miter bar. I remember reading one of the magazines early in my woodworking where the author used the tenoning jig for cheek cuts, then used a hand saw for shoulder cuts. I like that approach.
If you have ever made raised panel, or simply paneled cabinet doors where you are cutting the rails and stiles with a molding cutter, then you're going to want to use a tenoning jig. I'm sure there are guys w/ molding planes, or some use the router table, but I inherited an old Craftsman table saw from the early 70s where my father used it to add some cabinets to our kitchen. He had matching blade sets cut (or maybe they were off the shelf) and made the doors exclusively with the table saw and a jig that Craftsman branded as 'The Universal Jig'. I was even able to recreate a broken stile for a buddy at work using a molding cutter and tenoning jig. Sometimes you just want to work with the tools you have and not invest in new tools for a one-time job for a buddy. Oh, first rule of word working: don't tell your friends at work that you're into woodworking. "My kid used the stretcher of my Windsor chair as a step ladder rung. Hey, you do woodworking!"
Happy Friday y’all
Whew. We made it. It was close.
So, Logan, you can cut mortise and tenons on the Shopsmith with the horizontal boring feature, much like the pantorouter as I understand it. Don't like commercial made tenoning jigs as they are too heavy, don't slide well, and seem cumbersome. Shopsmith here go from $ 100 (rusty 10ER) to about $ 600 for a good 510.
Tenon jigs are one (yet another?) place where the shop made is better than the commercial. This is the one we talked about on the episode: www.woodsmithplans.com/plan/adjustable-tenoning-jig/
We've also shown this rip-fence version quite often: www.woodsmithplans.com/plan/adjustable-tenon-jig/
At that price, setting up a second-hand Shopsmith as a dedicated slot mortiser is a steal. Nice idea.
Oh, could you tell me the address of the place where the October get - together is so that my "travel agent" can make accommodations reservations please ? Looking forward to the event and the tour especially. Also, my daughters and grandkids live in Burlington, Ia. so we will see them too ! Thanks !
Wish we could go to England too (my grandparents were from there), but cost prohibitive unless we win the lottery between now and then.
thanks
Here’s a question for you … Pantorouter or Shaper Origin?
I found Logan laughing at Shopsmith totally inappropriate and al he complained about was the price yet never gave any other discussion. Yes the new ones are expensive but they have a place. Yes Logan they are not for your shop but they are appropriate. Laughing at the Shopsmith tenoning jig without describing what is wrong with it was also inappropriate. Good bye I departing from you show now. I wish you all well.
Well you missed previous episodes where we've talked about how a Shopsmith does play a valuable role in some shops. Even last episode, John and I talked about how some woodworkers use second-hand machines for dedicated purposes. The jibes were tongue-in-cheek. We'll miss you.