MORE POWER!
I've been playing with my new toy tonight- a bandsaw that stands about a foot high, has a water feed and cuts glass very quickly.

Within ten minutes of setting it up I had an ivy leaf cut out of green glass, all in one piece.

*Tool Time grunts*

Now I can REALLY do cool shit!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 3 Dec 2008, 2:50, 20 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

*jealous*
oh yeah.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 3 Dec 2008, 4:15, Reply)

so...
pictures?
(Holy Gabrielle is Holy, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 5:16, Reply)

^
oooo THIS!

We would really like to see your new bandsaw so we can be properly jealous.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 3 Dec 2008, 5:42, Reply)

Heh the ladies are impressed!
I used to use all manner of big powerful cutting machines every day - bandsaw, chopsaw, morticer, spindle, tenoner, planer, thicknesser, router, big-ass sanders and the like.

I used to...

Wait... why did I quit that job again?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 6:13, Reply)

A man with his tool is a thing of beauty and poetry.
The size of the tool doesn't matter of course. It's what's produced that's important.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 8:54, Reply)

Nice
I always slate women for spending ages going shopping, but leave me in a Screwfix/B&Q/Machine Mart and I will happily spend all day looking at tools, and all my money and quite a lot of the bank's buying them.

I'm now no longer allowed to go into Screwfix unaccompanied after spending nearly £300 on a bargain of a Bosch cordless drill (a blue one as well)
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 8:54, Reply)

Hang on...
We're playing the hardcore machinery game?

I got to use a CNC router the other week. It was great, and about the size of a garage.
( Cawl, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 9:34, Reply)

I've got a home made CNC machine somewhere
although it's not the size of a garage.

Abandoned the project some years ago as I couldn't get it to work properly. It's made out of a bunch of stepper motors and a bastardised turtle program for a BBC Micro.

We have to make our own entertainment in the countryside...
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 9:44, Reply)

Cool!
This one cost the best part of half a million, and it's all fancy-looking.

I don't trust it though, I reckon it's gonna wanna taste blood one day.

I'd go for the home-made one any day!

I guess the up side to working for a big manufacturer is that there are hundreds of wicked machines around the place.
The downside being I have to write risk assessments for them all :(
( Cawl, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 9:55, Reply)

the hardcore machinery game eh?
LHC /thread.

Shame the bastard's not working.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 10:12, Reply)

Do you work for CERN?
*grins*
( Cawl, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 10:21, Reply)

At CERN
but yeah.

*grins harderer*
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 11:40, Reply)

manly one-upman ship!
i used to drive a digger on a three thousand acre estate...
those were good times...
(Fuckpig "That's not even a pound a midget.", Wed 3 Dec 2008, 11:22, Reply)

I'll shoot pics tonight.
I was up past midnight and it's dark now, so I haven't shot them yet- but the saw itself can be seen here.

The ivy leaves I cut are life size- three sizes, 2", 1.5" and 1" across. Now that I know how to do this, I'll cut a lot of them so I can put them together into something fun.

Best part? I can now use a lot of my scrap glass up for this! And that somehow appeals to my Scottish ancestry... *grin*
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 3 Dec 2008, 11:43, Reply)

I came close to amateur amputation a number of times with bandsaws
Once I was trimming a block of hardwood into the vague shape of a dolphin for a gift. I put it on the blade at the wrong angle and PYOING! It shot across the workshop and smashed into pieces. I got the slightest of cuts on my index finger which would have been messy if it'd been a couple of mm either way.

Fortunately I still have all my appendages.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 12:02, Reply)

Hmmm...
Accidents?

Read this... www.b3ta.com/questions/blood/post220074
( Cawl, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 12:10, Reply)

Ouch Kaol
I live near a sawmill, someone there died after a fork truck dropped about 2 tonne of wood on his head.

We also have a lot of forestry round here, which is obviously reasonably accident prone. The forestry get round this by taking everyone on as self employed sub contractors rather than employees, so no sick pay or compensation if you chop your arm off. Lovely people.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 12:13, Reply)

Fair enough!
To be honest, you'd be terrified just how stupid people can be.
( Cawl, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 12:19, Reply)

^^yeah, I know
...says the man with the chainsaw scar across his left knee.

The little bandsaw I have has a diamond grit blade- it will not easily cut flesh, but goes through glass at a fierce rate!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 3 Dec 2008, 15:38, Reply)

All right
Now you all are making me pine away for the days when I had a job where I was surrounded by power tools. *sigh*

I really must buy a house with a garage so I can start purchasing power tools. I feel the need to build stuff. Guess I'll just have to content myself with finding a nice woodworking show online.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Thu 4 Dec 2008, 2:15, Reply)