
Gary H. Merrill posted on the forum topic Carter stabilizer for Grizzly 17" band saw? in the group Power tools: 1 year, 11 months ago · View
Well, I have yet another recommendation from Jeff at Carter, with whom I’ve been communicating. His recommendation is the CTR4 stabilizer combined with the 348 offset stud. He also sent me the engineering drawings for both the JET1 and the CTR4. It does look to me as though the combination of the CTR4 and the [...]

Gary H. Merrill posted on the forum topic Carter stabilizer for Grizzly 17" band saw? in the group Power tools: 1 year, 11 months ago · View
Yeah, I don’t see any reason to buy their conversion kit. And you’re exactly right that the critical issue is the offset from the holder to the blade. That’s what concerns me about the Jet1 recommendation since the blade aligns just outside the vertical tangent to the 20mm stud on the RIGHT side (as you [...]

Gary H. Merrill started the forum topic Carter stabilizer for Grizzly 17" band saw? in the group Power tools: 1 year, 11 months ago · View
I’ve recently acquired a Grizzly G0636X “Ultimate” 17″ saw and am trying to figure out what Carter stabilizer to put on it. The Grizzly people have no clue, and the Carter people have told me that a Jet1 should be what I need. But I’m a little skeptical and just want to be sure before [...]

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Gary H. Merrill commented on the blog post I rescued a wooden hand plane made in the 1800s 1 year, 11 months ago · View
I have a plane that looks something like this and that my wife got me some years ago as a birthday present. As I recall, she bought it somewhere in the middle of Georgia. It appears to be a rabbet plane, but with two irons: one is the typically angled one, and then about an [...]

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