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Im looking at a separate shopvac for table and miter saw, I think.
I just dont have the space for what's pictured above currently
Trying to find something under 17.5" tall ( or just over ) and 4 or 5hp

Yall are a great source of help, thank yall
 
Looks like you work quite a bit of cedar with all that purple mixed in. What gets done with that much saw dust? Is there a use for it? I've got jars of different dust from different species I keep so I can mix it with glue for this and that.

We sell it by the cubic yard for horse stall bedding.

The cedar was a recent millwork job that we did for another miller. We usually don’t mill it ourselves as good logs are too difficult to source.
 
Meh, you guys are JV.

Last week we emptied my dust collection room. Filled 3 tandem axle dump trucks (F9000 size) over the rails....

For reference, the room is 14' wide, 25' deep and the stack is over 5' high. That's a lot of man glitter! LOL

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I thought you kept a truck parked under the down chute.
I’m told we need a 40hp motor, 7,500 CFM blower and 16” pipe for the 4 way planer moulder we’ve ordered. I’ve several 50 & 75hp motors, I need to find a blower setup.
 
I thought you kept a truck parked under the down chute.
I’m told we need a 40hp motor, 7,500 CFM blower and 16” pipe for the 4 way planer moulder we’ve ordered. I’ve several 50 & 75hp motors, I need to find a blower setup.
Seems overkill.

I'm running a 5' diameter blower with a 20" inlet on a 15hp motor. It works great evacuating my 6 head moulder. Granted that the moulder is located only around 10' horizontally away from the blower.
 
I'm working on a small project for my dad. He has been building some beautiful rustic wood furnishings for several years now as a side hobby/extra pocket money. Now that he's getting older and can't work construction as hard as he once could he's doing more woodworking projects and planing on more flea markets and craft fairs and such. I'm making him a business card holder out of a piece of cedar I had laying around. Still got a little clean up of my freehanded lettering and some sanding and prep for finish.20240521_112847.jpg20240521_112921.jpg20240521_112932.jpgI have a couple questions for you woodworking fellas. I want to epoxy resin the gaps from where bark was. I've never done the epoxy resin thing. I could ask my old man but that might ruin the surprise. I've ordered some pouring resin and some pigments and gold foil off the webs. I want to make the voids in this cedar cardholder look like a quartz vain with gold in it. Now for the questions. How is best way to block or tape everything off to keep the resin where I want it to be? How would I get the look I'm goin for like a golden quartz vain? And any other resin tips you guys can offer I'm listening. I've read some stuff online and seen a few tube vids about the resin pouring. But with the talent I've seen here figured I ask you guys.
 
I'm working on a small project for my dad. He has been building some beautiful rustic wood furnishings for several years now as a side hobby/extra pocket money. Now that he's getting older and can't work construction as hard as he once could he's doing more woodworking projects and planing on more flea markets and craft fairs and such. I'm making him a business card holder out of a piece of cedar I had laying around. Still got a little clean up of my freehanded lettering and some sanding and prep for finish.View attachment 782902View attachment 782903View attachment 782904I have a couple questions for you woodworking fellas. I want to epoxy resin the gaps from where bark was. I've never done the epoxy resin thing. I could ask my old man but that might ruin the surprise. I've ordered some pouring resin and some pigments and gold foil off the webs. I want to make the voids in this cedar cardholder look like a quartz vain with gold in it. Now for the questions. How is best way to block or tape everything off to keep the resin where I want it to be? How would I get the look I'm goin for like a golden quartz vain? And any other resin tips you guys can offer I'm listening. I've read some stuff online and seen a few tube vids about the resin pouring. But with the talent I've seen here figured I ask you guys.
Blue tape backed up with modeling clay?
Don’t get modeling clay on the wood, it’s oily & frequently has a staining color.
I use modeling clay to make epoxy, Scott will probably chime in with a more gooder idea.
 
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I'm working on a small project for my dad. He has been building some beautiful rustic wood furnishings for several years now as a side hobby/extra pocket money. Now that he's getting older and can't work construction as hard as he once could he's doing more woodworking projects and planing on more flea markets and craft fairs and such. I'm making him a business card holder out of a piece of cedar I had laying around. Still got a little clean up of my freehanded lettering and some sanding and prep for finish.View attachment 782902View attachment 782903View attachment 782904I have a couple questions for you woodworking fellas. I want to epoxy resin the gaps from where bark was. I've never done the epoxy resin thing. I could ask my old man but that might ruin the surprise. I've ordered some pouring resin and some pigments and gold foil off the webs. I want to make the voids in this cedar cardholder look like a quartz vain with gold in it. Now for the questions. How is best way to block or tape everything off to keep the resin where I want it to be? How would I get the look I'm goin for like a golden quartz vain? And any other resin tips you guys can offer I'm listening. I've read some stuff online and seen a few tube vids about the resin pouring. But with the talent I've seen here figured I ask you guys.
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I'm working on a small project for my dad. He has been building some beautiful rustic wood furnishings for several years now as a side hobby/extra pocket money. Now that he's getting older and can't work construction as hard as he once could he's doing more woodworking projects and planing on more flea markets and craft fairs and such. I'm making him a business card holder out of a piece of cedar I had laying around. Still got a little clean up of my freehanded lettering and some sanding and prep for finish.View attachment 782902View attachment 782903View attachment 782904I have a couple questions for you woodworking fellas. I want to epoxy resin the gaps from where bark was. I've never done the epoxy resin thing. I could ask my old man but that might ruin the surprise. I've ordered some pouring resin and some pigments and gold foil off the webs. I want to make the voids in this cedar cardholder look like a quartz vain with gold in it. Now for the questions. How is best way to block or tape everything off to keep the resin where I want it to be? How would I get the look I'm goin for like a golden quartz vain? And any other resin tips you guys can offer I'm listening. I've read some stuff online and seen a few tube vids about the resin pouring. But with the talent I've seen here figured I ask you guys.

Will you be clearing the whole project?
Definitely tape off what you don’t want epoxy on and use a backer like suggested. If it’s not too deep, you could use the 5ton epoxy in the plunger tube at the hardware store. I’ve used it with great success over big cedar striper plugs.

As soon as it’s poured, run a small torch over it and it will pull all the bubbles to the surface and pop.
It gets really runny too, so watch out.

That’s a great project! Your Pops is gonna love it .
 
Will you be clearing the whole project?
Definitely tape off what you don’t want epoxy on and use a backer like suggested. If it’s not too deep, you could use the 5ton epoxy in the plunger tube at the hardware store. I’ve used it with great success over big cedar striper plugs.

As soon as it’s poured, run a small torch over it and it will pull all the bubbles to the surface and pop.
It gets really runny too, so watch out.

That’s a great project! Your Pops is gonna love it .
Thanks guys for the replies. I was planning on just doing the gaps from where I cleaned the bark out of for the epoxy work. Then gloss poly over the entire thing when done. I'm comfortable with the wood and poly but not having no experience with resin pouring I knew I could get some answers here. There's just a small section of solid wood on one back bottom corner that is holding cardholder from being 2 pieces. And I want to do the epoxy kinda milky instead of clear so I got a variety of pigment and other stuff to play with. I want it to look like quartz and I got some gold film to stick small pieces random along the crack making end result look like a gold vain. That's the image in the ol hat rack anyway. I'll post finished pics when done. Unless project ends up flung down in the woods 🤣
 
Got the resin poured on the card holder I'm doing for my old man as a surprise. The gold vain look I wanted was kinda successful atleast across the front edge where I really wanted it. I've started sanding everything. The gold foil and glitter settled alot on the back corner where it was a deeper pour 20240525_104924.jpg20240525_104953.jpganother question for you guys is once I go through my grits and get everything silky smooth. How do I polish the resin to get the clear shiny back?
 
Got the resin poured on the card holder I'm doing for my old man as a surprise. The gold vain look I wanted was kinda successful atleast across the front edge where I really wanted it. I've started sanding everything. The gold foil and glitter settled alot on the back corner where it was a deeper pour View attachment 784310View attachment 784311another question for you guys is once I go through my grits and get everything silky smooth. How do I polish the resin to get the clear shiny back?

Looks FANTASTIC!

As you go through the grits it will become clear / shiny.. You have a buffer and cloth wheels?

Car compound/ polish will work perfect. Just don’t get it hot, it will melt.
 
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Been try to find a way to store my telescope lens for awhile now. Then I came across this old tool box in a cabinet that I’ve had 30 some of years doing duty for what ever tools I needed to carry. It even used to be my chainsaw working box.

I was just wrapping them in towels and stacking inside, but I didn’t like that. To easy to drop in the dark.

This morning I found some old leather and a chunk of wood to make a better fit.

The old box now has another purpose..

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Anyone here do any wood turning? Ive made a lot of pens and pepper mills. Working with the harbor freight lathe, the best chisels klingspor sells and a tormek T8 to sharpen. Justified the tormek and the multiple pieces you need for it to the wife by saying i was going to sharpen knives on the weekend lol.
 
I’ve done a bit of turning, started in the late 1990’s (wow I’m old). I enjoy making large bowls and decorative forms. My lathes (Stubby 750, Oneway 1224 and Vicmarc little thing that I’ve forgotten the name of) are currently in the garage and turning makes a huge mess often taking more time to clean up than I want to spend. Need a new workshop, just like everyone I suppose. But like you I started with an inexpensive lathe and a small number of good tools. There are a lot of turners in NC, look for meetings and watch Craigslist, and social media if you’re into that, for additional tooling and even lathes.

Will say that I don’t find my Tormek T7 very useful. I use a high speed grinder for most sharpening, do touch up skews on the Tormek.

If you have any questions feel free to reach out.
 
Anyone here do any wood turning? Ive made a lot of pens and pepper mills. Working with the harbor freight lathe, the best chisels klingspor sells and a tormek T8 to sharpen. Justified the tormek and the multiple pieces you need for it to the wife by saying i was going to sharpen knives on the weekend lol.

I've turned a bit..
Was running a Woodsmith as a lathe for years. Then moved to a Laguna 1836 - that was eye opening !
Sadly, I've moved on to other hobbies and sold off all turning things.
the carbide tools now are pretty awesome as well.
 
Surprise cedar and resin card holder for my dad is finished. Buffed the resin areas good cleaned it and sprayed it with a couple good coats of crystal clear high gloss poly. Thanks to the guys who helped me with some tricks for the epoxy resin. For first time using it I'm happy with how piece turned out. I'm already thinking of what I'm pouring next. 20240530_123338.jpg20240530_102614.jpg
 
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