Well last year I almost built 100 drawers and 90% had dominos to reinforce the joints. There was also tons of doors and drawer fronts and quite frankly I am getting tired of edge sanding with a hand held sander and or by hand sanding.
Is any one here using an edge sander? Any recommendations on brands? I see most entry sized tend to use 6" by 80" belts and Jet offers a oscillation sander.
Is that somewhat like being "almost" pregnant??? :)
Had a Boice-Crane in TN; it was 8x108 iirc; found it at auction.
It was _not_ oscillating; for our purposes it was ok but for kitchen drawers, etc., like your use I'd recommend strongly to go that way as it's very easy to burn w/o it, and especially w/ light woods that's a cure that's worse than the disease phenomenon.
Unfortunately, I don't have any firsthand experience w/ the Jet or other similarly-priced current offerings; only the above advice regarding the use thereof.
If you wait a few months, I understand that Festool is coming out with a new edge sander that will hook up to your dust extractor. On $32, 000!! That should take care of your needs.
Your lieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. ;~)
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:34:42 -0500, Leon
He made a mistake. The comma should be a decimal point and one "0" should be removed.
Yeah. There's no _way_ they'd sell it for that little.
Hey, I saw footage of Dallas today. She's suckin' right about now. You woodworking twins are down in Houston, aren't you? Well away?
-- Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still. -- Patricia Russell-McCloud
Dallas is like 3 states away from Houston.
OK, so 241 miles isn't close, but you just gave me one more reason to question the Texas school system...
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Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Come on, Larry. You can recognize hyperbole when you see it, right?
The driving distance from New Orleans LA through Mississippi through Alabama into Florida to Pensacola, 201 miles, is shorter than Houston to Dallas.
But of course, monsieur. I am geeving heem ze zeengair, oui?
-- Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still. -- Patricia Russell-McCloud
I have a 6x108 chinese knockoff of General that doesn't oscillate. I did try using it some at first on face frames and some other stuff, but not on drawers. It tends to sand unevenly with the left side getting more cut, so I used it only on short rails, etc. I get some use out of the curved end where it turns to sand/cut on top rails for curved arched doors. Sometimes, I use it for misc. stuff, but not regularly. I have an old delta combination 12" disc and 6x48 belt sander that I use once in a while also. Both machines are invaluable when I need them. I believe I would get a whole lot more mileage out of an oscillating spindle sander most of the time. As for sanding doors and drawer fronts, I cheat and use a small Timesavers, but a good barrel sander will work just as well, only it is harder to change the sandpaper. Before I had the belt sander, I used a Bosch Random orbital, which is much faster than the small critters around.
Going to New Orleans anytine soon?
I mostly want to clean up cabinet door edge joints, and drawer joints where the Domino's are at.
Way back in my teen years, we had vacationed down on Corpus Christi. My sister and I were looking out the high window of the pickup camper as we drove from Lake Charles, LA. We drove along the coast road, I remember seeing the lights of Corpus Christ and thinking we will be there soon two hours later it looked the same, as it was another two hours later and we still were not there.
Probably saw a lot of rigs in the bay.
Those are three states. Houston & Dallas are both in _one_, but I grok your hyperbole, Leon. Metaphors be with you.
I'm returning the Makita SP6000K1 kit. The track was bent and the saw growls and vibrates in an unkind way during the soft-start, but is sweet when up to speed.
What a shock! Soft starts will kinda make a growl when coming up to speed.
A few bucks more and you can get a Festool.
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