Making Window Sill From 7 x 3 Hardwood

[@bccev770]

I like this workshop, because it looks like a workshop and not a showshop....💪😜

[@DTJoinery]

Haha thanks. Definitely not a show shop, its a messy working joinery shop😁

[@amhjoinery2060]

Nice to see someone still using slotted collar tooling

[@DTJoinery]

Yes, I have a large collection of slotted collars. It would cost me a fortune to replace them. In many ways they are more versatile than heads.

[@nigelknight1435]

I bought a Trend Airshield Pro Respirator second hand only 2 months old, it keeps the particles you can't see from getting into your lungs

[@DTJoinery]

I need to do something with this machine, it's extremely dusty.

[@brycecomerwoodworks]

Ha, ha. I never really thought about how dangerous slotted cutters can be until i started using a Euro head. I still grind a lot of my own knives for the Euro heads, but they are definitely more limited in there versatility than slotted collars. What was the massive piece of timber on the saw when you were cutting the sill?

[@DTJoinery]

If they are used right, they are perfectly safe. I've seen some pretty scary examples over the years of people using them wrong, though. I don't use the Euro head, although the SCM has the Euro head shaft on it. The safest way to run slotted collars is by using the pins with them. I was running 3 lengths of sill. As I ran each piece, I was sitting it on the other aide of the fence, ready for the next process.

[@brycecomerwoodworks]

@@DTJoinery Ah gotcha! I thought it was one big ass piece! I don't think i can remember ever using slotted cutters with the pins. All the ones i remember using didn't have them. It's been a long time though, & my memory is pretty crappy! 😆

[@DTJoinery]

@brycecomerwoodworks To be fair, most people remove them. Only about half of mine can be used with pins, I have about 4 sets of collars that have pins and 2 or 3 that don't. Either way is fine with me, as long as they are set even and done up properly.😁

[@brycecomerwoodworks]

@@DTJoinery Indeed. I remember another one of our wood machinists where i did my apprenticeship setting up the shaper for reeding on some columns, only to get a phone call from his wife as he was finishing his set up. I think from memory she was pregnant at the time, hence his haste to go answer the phone. When he came back, he fired the machine up and all hell broke loose. He hadn't tightened the collar down & both cutters flew out. One of the cutters hit him in the chest, bounced up and cut his cheek & the other cutter we never found. We figured it was really lucky that he hadn't tightened the collar down at all and the cutters flew out straight away before the machine came up to speed, otherwise the one that bounced off his chest would have gone straight through him! I'm glad i have more stories of luck than misfortune having worked in the industry for 40 years. 😅

[@DTJoinery]

@@brycecomerwoodworks Very lucky man. A very good reason to never leave the setup before you're finished.

[@thomo74]

Is that the same Fijian Mahogany?

[@DTJoinery]

No, this timber is Kwila, it's a hardwood grown in New Guinea. Very similar to Merbau, only better.

[@guyvangenechten6484]

Looking very good!!!💯👌👍