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    Exterior choice of wood

    I would nail something together on the cheap from rough sawn spruce or pine boars. Expecting it to last only 20-50 years after which replacements can be made in an afternoon.
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    Intelligent Drill Press .... how much?

    This is how manufacturers and importers skin people theese days. First they add a lot of unnecsessary electronics and functions that serve no practical purpose and breaks easily. Then they sell it at a price that is much higher then before fully assured that it will soon break and become...
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    Spindle Moulder Fence material

    Solid aluminium plate is the best alternative I know of. Though mine are made from wood.
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    What live center for woodturning? Morse 3 taper.

    After 7 or 8 years delay my Solberga wood lathe finally is having new eletricals installed and will be put to use. The borrowed lathe which I have been using meanwhere has moved home to it's owner. However my lathe did not come with a live center. If there has ever been one it probably got lost...
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    Link to BGHM German machinery safety guide PDF

    Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!! I understand German partially but the pictures are so good that they fill out most of the words I don't understand. Those are basicly the methods I learned in vocational school in Finland in the late 90-ies though a bit further developed. And some which I have forgotten.
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    Things have moved on in the last 8 years and KISS

    When I worked in Norway my employer housed us in a cabin with one of those fancy modern stoves. On more than one occasion I was forced to cook on my old Primus caming stove because that modern thing just didn't work.
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    Farm Boy Hit and Miss engine

    Impressive
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    Farm Boy Hit and Miss engine

    Wow
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    Farm Boy Hit and Miss engine

    Considering your skill level I think you should du what many hobby machinists dis around here in the past. Build a 2hp single cylinder inboard engine and install it in a boat.
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    The luxury of sufficient funds

    Goosing in a craftsmanship context....... should be abour how to find an electrocuted goose below a local powerline in spring, make off with it before the local foxes, and pluck it and skin it and butcher it and fry it for dinner. However the world is wicked so this isn't the...
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    Emergency alarm call

    What will fall from the sky will mostly be Shahed drones and criuse misseled and maybe a few ballistic missiles for good measure. Maybe though unlikely a nuklear bomb or two on some symbolically important mayor cities. In either case any Ukrainan could tell you that covering at least doubles...
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    Clamps

    Stick welding close to G-cramps is a pain. You spend as much time clearing weld splatters of the threads as you do working. Over time you destroy the threads. Theese cramps solve that problem in an elegant way by moving the tread further away where the splatters have cooled somewhat and don't...
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    500 year old methods

    Indeed
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    The luxury of sufficient funds

    Maybe I should start making youtube woodworking videos........... well......that tree looks just about right...... starts the chainsaw........ or toolmaking videos........ First we need a driveshaft from a Moskwich car and a blade from a horse drawn sikle bar mower...... or tool restoration...
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    The luxury of sufficient funds

    I just don't understand that kind of "woodworking". Everything is new and shiny. Ferfect clear and straight timber planed on all sides to the right dimension just pop up out of nowhere in a "workshop" without a large enough planer nor thicknesser. The whole "workshop" has a feeling of film prop...
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    500 year old methods

    That's not a very old method. Pit sawing may have an older history further south in Europe but in Finland and northern Sweden very little timber was pit sawn before the introduction of rolled cast steel sawblades in the late 18th and early 19th century. The old hand forged saw blades were too...
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    classic machines

    Essentially top quality machines in need of some safety upgrades to make them fit for another 50 years of professional use. Also suitable for a hobbyist with enough space. Extremely undervalued on the market. So..... what is the hindrance then....... Repairs and maintainance takes time which...
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    Patchwork an restoration work

    Aye. I have heard the spruce that grows in the alps is high quality. I forgot to answer the question. I harvest and process most boat timber I use and all grown crooks. That is the only way to get what I want at a reasonable cost. There is barely any speciality timber on the market in...
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    Patchwork an restoration work

    Spruce is one of those species that vary tremendously in quality and usefulness depending on how and where it has grown. I think you could get decent quality spruce if you grew it in particularly cold places in the Scottish highlands or the foothills of the French Alps. The rest of UK and France...
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    Patchwork an restoration work

    A log load heading for a local sawmill. Timber for an upcoming project this summer. And the same timber being stickered to dry Installing a frame made from spruce root crooks in a badly hogged 16 foot runabout to keep it's hull shape so I can repair the bottom planking and make it...
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