Jerome

I have been busy at work and my stupid nerve have slowed work down a bit but I have managed to get the ends of the skirt installed and the vices installed.



I got the wedges cut and decided to sand the points in instead of trying to cut them as i was having trouble getting them consistent.

I painted these vices as I did not like the green that ...

Managed to get some more work done yesterday, it has been a slow go due to a sciatic nerve issue, to say it is a pain in the butt is an understatement!
Anyway, on to the wood work I managed to get the three sections of the top glued together. I had to rout out sections for the vices that I will be using as the bottom of the skirt did not hang down low enough to catch all of what will be the jaw. once that was done I got the Walnut skirt glued on.
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I fianlly made some progress, I took a week off work to play in the shop.
I got all the wood for the top and leggs jointed and plained figured out which peice should go where and started to glue.
I did have some distractions I picked up a Jos Cote Band saw that I am also restoring and a Canadian Drill press that will get restored at some point, hopefully in the near future.

Here is part of the top slab being glued. I wish I had more clamps I had bought the ends but my colleague ...

My Stupidity may be a blessing in disguise!
In getting my joiner up and running I noticed what I hastily thought was a 20 amp plug as the motor only draws 14amps start-up I thought I would just change the plug to a 15 amp as I don't have any 20 amp outlets in my shop good to go right? NOT!
I found that the joiner was running at what I thought was a slower speed than it should but hey its 60-ish years old maybe they ran slower back then the motor rpm's were right and the pulleys were ...

Spent yesterday jointing, I have realized that I am really out of shape I'm beat.
I took a look at by Beaver 3800 6" and decided that the table was too short So I built some extensions. I built torsion boxes for the top with another smaller one underneath for added strength, I attached these to the table using the 3 existing 5/16 bolt holes for the beaver extensions.
I was going to add legs to keep it from flexing but ...