check out this mace i fashioned in my home foundry

https://i.imgur.com/KRDNuyk.jpg

if you made that you're a fucking god

I would have made the handle a penis, but good work.

Standard fence on the table saw nothin to fancy it’s pretty good though, Bosch does good work. The guy just wasn’t the type to peak under the hood to see if it was something basic to fix. Glad he gave it to me tbh lol it was stuck in the highest position just waiting to dish out a nasty kickback.

I’ve seen those flip tables but I’m not sure I’d try to make one without the proper hardware for locking it in and flipping it. It’s not locally available for me and I live out in the sticks. If I was pinched for space I might give it a try but for now I still have some space to work with.

Bandsaws are a breeze really. If ya have really curved cuts just plan ahead and step cut as needed, ya can smooth out whatever ya need to with a sander later. It does have a fence but for what I do I can accomplish most rips on the table saw or with my skilsaw if need be.

I definitely recommend a jointer and planer combo for anyone who is doing project that need to be square. I had some jigs to kind of rough cut them before but you’re right the sanding like a pleb was a pain in the ass lol. Before I had the combo it seemed like no matter what I did it was really hard to achieve a true 90° it wasn’t horrible but if ya make picture frames or anything like that, one side or corner always creeped up and bugged the shit out of me.

Heh that went on longer than I expected, none of my friends do woodworking outside of banging nails roofing or framing so I don’t get to talk about it often lol

You have any idea how much a saw with a CDM, belt driven, and a biesmeyer fence is?
Most modern tools are all made by the same company. craftsman, dewalt, kobalt, black&decker, all the same.

Old tools were made by companies who made tools. No design by committee. No cost saving material bullshit. No "oh thats unsafe, cover it up. " tuck your shirt in, dont wear a tie, cut that hippie hair before it goes in the belt.

Worm gears and cost saving bullshit. I want iron, steel, and heavy bearings.

I want to fear for my life when I use it.

Why dont you recommend a table saw for me?

A lot of old tools are of a far superior craftsmanship. Unfortunately, most of the tool innovations have just been ways to make them cheaper, but they sacrifice longevity, and repairability. New drills and little things like that are definitely nice to have, but I’d usually prefer to work with saws and sanders made back when people understood that tools should be fixed rather than replaced.

It's not that new tools sacrifice longevity and repairability;. They're literally engineered to break in economically unfeasible to repair ways after x hours of use.

It's called planned obsolescence.

I used to work in project and supply chain management for both a fine furniture manufacturer in yucca valley (mueller turner)
And an industrial signage manufacturer in riverside (fusion sign and design)

Neither one of those operations used contemporary tools aside from pivoting compound miter saws, and they make much nicer and more commercially marketable shit than thullian can make on his overpriced short lived hardware.

^^^^^ Truth. Plastic bearings. No zerk fittings. Worm gears, disgusting.

I was thinking of starting a thread about raising livestock and another one about truck balls, but I'll just post in this thread instead.

Did you guys see the episode where Uncle Jed built Granny a butter churn?

DiesInEveryFilm - The Modern Mace

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That's right. They call it Chinesium.

Honestly buy something nice on alibaba and wait a bit for it if you are going to use it frequently, also great post hobart at least they are doing RL tradeskills