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[Imbeciliac]

Hi Imbeciliac - welcome to HomemadeTools.net

Those are some great builds you have planned. Which designs here are your favorites?

Hi Imbeciliac,

Welcome!

Perusing is never a waste of time; one never knows what kernel of genius might be uncovered!

What's next on your build list?

Ken

Well. Better late than never, uh, I suppose. My apologies for the ridiculously tardy reply, apparently I do not have thread notifications enabled and didn’t realize anyone was actually paying attention to my ramblings. Terribly rude of me.

Since you’ve both asked the same question (and since I am also sitting up in the middle of the night waiting for pain meds to start working), I will finally do you gents the courtesy of responding...

Time and happenstance have a very funny way about them. Of the three builds I mentioned, two are no longer necessary. As it happens, I found an old 14” Rockwell/Delta which needed a motor and a lot of TLC who’s owner was dropping off at a local scrap yard. A quick word with the yard owner and I was able to exchange a few pounds of copper wire for, what is now, an excellent band saw.
Then, about a month before this past Christmas, my neighbour came by with a present for me on the forks of his tractor: a 10” Craftex 3hp, very heavy and well-made cabinet saw which had spent the previous five years sitting at the far end of his sea container. It looked a hell of a mess, covered in grime and dust and the top heavily rusted. He said he was scrapping it (!) and asked if I wanted it. Duh. It now has pride of place in my shop.

That leaves the 2”X72” belt grinder. Jeremy Schmidt’s build

is the one I would most like to emulate. I have a 2hp treadmill motor earmarked for this, if I ever get my shop organized to the point that I am actually able to find my Southbend.

-Scott