Not exactly earth shattering news, we finally finished scanning all those vintage glass plates all 1450 of them, slightly over 40 gigabytes of data.
I've been busy researching molder / planers, originally settled on getting the Shop Fox until this little Hussey W7S showed up on Kijiji for $750.00. Waiting to hear if my offer has been accepted, if not it's back to the Fox.
With a molder you can used salvaged wood to make various moldings worth their weight in gold, especially if you get into reproduced moldings from old home restorations that is no longer available.
The knife grinders will grind any profile you want or need from a sample or drawing.
I just want cheap picture framing material.
The Fox comes with a stock feeder 0 -18 feet per minute while the older W7S has a fixed rate of feed but there is a variable stock feeder available and is preferred when working with hardwoods giving a much nicer finish - so I'm told.
The W7S is American made, has been in production since the mid 50's, the Fox is actually a Taiwanese clone. I'm not going to budge on my offer because by the time i add the new power feeder option the cost would be the same as a brand new Shop Fox. On the down side the Fox has a larger foot print, I'm running out of shop space.
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