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These are all excellent suggestions. Got a couple of more. Some of the community colleges here in Southern California still have woodworking programs (or wood manufacturing technologies... sounds fancier that way). Cerritos College has an excellent program for example. A basic woodturning class or b...

That is almost insane. Wow.

I was just re-reading some of the posts here. Made me think of something that happened last year. I took another turning class at the local community college and brought my work home to finish on my SS. I noticed a lot of vibration and thought it was the waytubes that were the culpurit. I put my SS ...

Thanks for the replies, gang. It's just that some of the Craftman's chisels looked larger than the SS stuff. Since I've never handled the sharpening jig, I didn't know if the difference in size would make any difference. Thanks again for the advise.

Does anybody own the SS sharpening jig, and has used it on lathe tools from other manufacturers? I got a good deal on some Craftsman chisels and was debating whether or not to by the SS jig or a stand alone bench grinder.

As a table saw, it does a pretty good job. There is plenty of good advise here. Nick has some good advise on making the table more stable for precise cuts in the videos. Also, I just realized that the aluminum rip fence that came with my 510 well flex just a bit when stressed. A piece of hardboard m...

All good suggestion. Have you considered pawn shops as well. I was looking for a used bench grinder, and started looking a routers. most were pretty well beat up, but if you were just looking for parts, might be the way to go.

I've turned several bowls, a open segmented vessel and a closed segmented vessel on my SS with that set. Worked just fine.

Very inventive. It would have never occurred to me to use a table that way.

Nice job on the re-saw fence. Do you have issues with blade drift using that fence?