NTD - Inca Jointer/Planer

[SkuttleFunk]

new tool day today!  :blob7: new tool day today!  :blob7: new tool day today!  :blob7:

I've been needing something a little wider than my current 6" jointer for flattening billets in prep for resawing (remember that honkin slab of Maple burl?) ... after many months of searching, I was able to find a used Inca 550 10" Jointer/Planer on the local Craigslist. I gave it a look and a test joint/plane and all was well with the nicely cared for unit. I'll have my work "cut-out" for me after NAMM ...

even came with (hard to find) extra gears for the dual speed planer power feed - nice!

add to the score several spare belts and an extra set of new in box carbide blades for the 2-blade cutter head, and this was a great tool deal IMO


I now have the capacity to consider offering 2-piece joined (but not glued) Alder body blanks to those who want to build their own bodies. I'm definitely not looking to become a wood seller, but I do live in the land of Alder so I might as well help out someone who doesn't have all the bigger tools to rend a body blank out of rough lumber from the lumberyard. I'm only considering this idea at the moment, as I definitely have waaay to many things going on to get ready for NAMM to employ too many brain cells on this right this moment

all the best,

R

 

[line6man]

Very cool, Rod!

 

[ocguy106]

Are you going to NAMM? Do you have a booth. I will be there as a spectator all 4 days

 

[Wyliee]

Hey, the color matches my grandmothers fridge!!!!!  ROTFL!!

 

[-CB-]

New tool day!!!! yay!!!!

Me, I'm just glad I got rid (finally!!!!) of my old 12" Craftsman radial arm saw from 1964 today.  Gave it away free.  Dang thing weighed just about 85lbs, and except for doing crosscut dados, I cant see the need anymore.  Ripping is damn dangerous on a radial arm, I wont do it.  Crosscut, miters, comounds, all easier and actually more precise on a sliding miter saw, most of which come with lasers these days.  Plus my miter saw doesn't need dedicated bench space - its 100 percent self contained.  If I ever need to crosscut dados, I'll set up a router jig, and do it better than the radial arm could.

Nice jointer!!!! Ten inches is not a bad size, use increase over six.  I hate setting up jointers...... but, they're a necessary evil.

 

[swarfrat]

Radial Finger Saw is one of the more dangerous tools in the shop. Ripping especially - my dad told my older brother 'Don't let me ever see you do this' and promptly took two fingers off with it. When I was building one of my amps, I told the story to the guy who was cutting the hickory I was getting from the lumber yard as he turned the saw off. He held up a hand where he'd cut a finger off at the last knuckle years ago. Also a RAS accident.

Move the work, not the tool.

 

[Mor Paul]

Did your brother learn?

 

[swarfrat]

Talk about object lessons. I guess so, he still has all his fingers.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Don't speak about new tools day to me! I'm dreaming in buy a land and build a house, with a HUGE bunker that would be a studio and a workshop... Problems? basically all that could involve it :sad:

 

[Cagey]

I subscribe to a couple woodworking magazines, and one of them has a monthly feature where they show some guy's "ultimate shop". It's amazing the lengths some of these guys go to, and enough to make you drool if you're a woodworker. Which, I suppose is the point. Kinda like wood porn here, they have shop porn <grin>

But, I really enjoy the ones where the guy basically builds a 1,000 sq' outbuilding that looks like a well-appointed modern ranch home without a basement, outfits it with all the dust collection, HVAC, plumbing and enough power to smelt steel, etc. Makes me wanna buy a lottery ticket <grin>

 

[line6man]

NTD for me as well.
Just got a wood lathe! :icon_biggrin:

And yes, that's one of the Padouk pen blanks I had on hand from when I made the thumbrest on my black PJ Jazz. I don't have any other scrap wood on hand right now. :blob7:

 

[-CB-]

Radial Finger Saw is one of the more dangerous tools in the shop. Ripping especially - my dad told my older brother 'Don't let me ever see you do this' and promptly took two fingers off with it. When I was building one of my amps, I told the story to the guy who was cutting the hickory I was getting from the lumber yard as he turned the saw off. He held up a hand where he'd cut a finger off at the last knuckle years ago. Also a RAS accident.

Move the work, not the tool.

Ya just gotta be a fool to rip with a RAS... even when everything goes right.  Sorry to hear about your dads accident.  I'm pretty much scared shitless of most saws.  My uncle Jimmy took off two tips on my Dads tablesaw in our basement.  I'll use a table saw though, with precautions.  I've used RAS too... and table, and jointers and planers, and molding machines, and.. all sorts of crap.

For instance - we had an old DeWalt table saw with an 30 or 36 inch blade (I used to remember the diameter...but trust me, HUGE), that was direct drive.  We had a band saw... it scared me the most... not for fingers, but for my head!  It had 36 inch wheels set 10 feet spindle to spindle.  The blade itself was about 3/16ths thick, with teeth as long as your fingers.  I used it to resaw really rough cut stuff, and first cut some cypress a few times.*  That wood was about 23 feet long by ... oh.. .a foot and a half in diameter, and we had to move it back and forth on electric winches from the ceiling.  We had several 12 inch jointers, and a 36 inch jointer.  Sadly, on that one, I ended up picking fingers out of the dust collector - a kid we had working there got messed up on it.  I never saw a RAS accident in the shop, but we did have jointer accidents.  We had a few skill saw accidents too.  We had one huge RAS that had a pretty big blade.  I was cutting the "angle" at the end of fence posts with it, and we cut 10 at a whack.  So thats a 10 inch cut, with some to spare plus the spindle, times two... what a 24 inch blade maybe, or 30 inch?

That stuff scares the crap outta me.  I plan on a Bosch table saw fairly soon.  I need to make up some cabinets, and its cheaper to buy the saw, make my own, than to buy the cabinets!!!  I'm good at that, have done it before, learned from an old time cabinet maker ("You use MDO for a cabinet and I'll hunt you down and personally kick your butt!")  Everything he did was void free plywood, then veneered or otherwise finished.  I'm pretty much of the same school (remember my thoughts about speaker cab biz?)

Anyway, be careful with that jointer.  Treat it to some freshened knives.  And... BE CAREFUL (again)




*and found a living frog, pure white, with dark eyes not albino... living INSIDE a pocket in the cypress!!!!! Cypress is so wet that water flys all over the place when you first cut it.

 

[SkuttleFunk]

there's an Inca 220v single phase 570 jointer/planer that's just been listed on the local Craigslist (Seattle/Redmond, WA) for anyone looking for one of these great Swiss machines

http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/tls/2147831108.html

all the best,

R