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Matthew Grisley: All right, so this is the new Leigh hold down clamps. We have a bench hold down clamp, which fits regular bench stock holes as a spinning knot to fast on and off, so it is pretty easy. Works on standard 3/4 inch bench holes, with this knot, you can spin off, put a bender washer on top and then this fits one-inch stock holes or you can drill just the standard 3/8 hole through the thread. Clamp action clamping of course, three-inch capacity as you can see here, it clamps like that. And then, this is the surface clamp version. This with supply of these anchors, it will be a centered steel part. Basically, drill an inch and a half diameter hole by 16 inch deep. This is your drill guide for the screws, drill all the way through, turn the anchor 180 degrees. Now, you have access from below to drive the two machine screws in that we supply and that holds the surface clamp, tighten that up and it works like that and then of course it will also work in standard T-track.
So, the advantage of the surface clamp is somewhere where you cannot have anything underneath, let us say for a table sled or something like that, and we supply package of anchors if you want more anchors to place it on somewhere else. And that is the Leigh hold down clamps.
Marc: The price you can avail on—
Matthew Grisley: Pricing is going to be $49.95 each, suggested retail and that would be available from most of our dealers like Woodcraft, Leigh Valley, Rockler, companies like that.
Gary Blum: This is our jack plane, this is our little block plane that we have just developed. It is built with the same principles as my other planes. We have got a four plane, the smooth plane and you can see they are made in various woods. This one is mesquite, this is cherry and quarterson [ph] maple. Our little block plane is getova [ph] and it stands in rosewood. And, I can show you some of the differences in our plane, we use a small insert cutter. It is the real thin small cutter that is captured, you can see it in there, so it is capture in this frog and this is your back up by in here and so it is a very solid set up when it is all put together. I like to say it is a 3/4 inch cutting iron. And then, we can also do a carbide insert cutter, this is a double sided cutter that is able to be re-sharpened, so that is something we are doing new and we can do that in the block plane or the bench planes.
They work like a regular bench plane obviously. The adjustments are a little bit different. This knob in the back is what locks your frog and you unloosen this and then adjust your depth with these two knobs here and then retighten it, so it is a very simple process. The mouth opening is able to be changed just by loosening this knob and moving these two screws and that will open and close the mouth opening and then just relock that.
The main reason I developed this and the main advantage is that the iron does not need to be ground and we have a little jig that you can sharpen this just by honing it, so that is the main advantage. They are cheap. They are only $6 a piece so you can buy several of this and maybe you want to put a camber on one or maybe you want to have another one that is straight. Or maybe you want to sharpen three or four at a time, take it to the jobsite and use them and you can have several and always have a sharp iron that way. We also have a scraper frog, this is new, that you can insert into any of the planes and replace to the main frog and it becomes a scraper plane, so it is all adjustable from the bottom and then we have a little boring screw here that will bow that out.
Here, we have a pretty nasty piece of walnut board. We can scrape that and not having any tear out. This plane here is $155. The prices on the bench planes range from $199 for a smooth plane to a rosewood jointer would be $295 I believe, so between $200 and $300 for the bench planes.
Tom Galzin: A whole idea behind this small machine, tabletop machine is to bring CNC to people that up till now, we have not thought CNC was a possibility. The size of this machine allows us a 2 x 3 working envelope so we could do a full cabinet. We actually precut blanks for the show, two foot by three foot. We cut a right side cabinet, the left side cabinet and then two other pieces and end up a full cabinet assembled, so we can use it for real work. Beyond that than to use it for decorative, for carving cabinet doors or for carving signs, it will do a really fine job of that. The spindle that we use is 24,000 RPM spindle, it means that it is rotating at 400 revolutions per second. It would give us a really high quality of finish.
When you are comparing sort of small light machines, what we are trying to do is to build in some ruggedness, some sturdiness into the machine. We start by making the machine frame out of cast iron. This machine weighs in at close to 500 pounds. We have also built in some flexibility in that. We have a T-slot table mounted on the machine and then we have made on the machine with the machine a vacuum table gone to the local Home Depot Store, hooked up a vacuum at then $49 shop back. So now, I have got a fully operating nasty based machine as well as a woodcarver.
We put on usually good quality components on it, wall screw drive and sealed re-circulating wall screw drives here and sealed re-circulating bearing here, so that will give us a long life at very smooth motion.
Male: This is the brand new track saw from DeWalt. The DeWalt Track Saw is basically like taking a—instead of carrying your work material to a table saw, you take your table saw to the work material. So, this gives you the ability to cut straight lines, on woods or on the floor. We are not having or do a lot of markings and we have got planes and everything like that. Basic principle is right on the track. DeWalt Track Saw is also available in corded and cordless version. So, depending on your needs, you can run a cordless or run it with cord.
We have three different tracks available, we have a 59-inch, we have a 102-inch and we have a 48-inch track. You can migrate them together to make as long of a track as you need. DeWalt Track Saw is a forward plunging saw and it is very intuitive, it is like using a handsaw. It is able to bevel up to a 47 degree. It is able to cut up to two and a half inches deep. Let us give it a try. The track saw is great because it cuts right against this edge. So you can see that is a smooth edge. And again, if you site down a piece of scrap material, you can have things very straight. This is something that no other plunge saw or track saw has in the industry right now and that is the inside kickback feature and by disengaging that mechanism right there, I can still move the saw forward, but it will not move back on the track. So, if you get to bind up situation, this saw is unable to pull out the track basic lead and remind you your work material around your track.
Along with the track in the track saw, we make a T-square attachment that will fit right into the track so you can get repeated 90-degree cuts. We also have a minor gauge so you can have repeated minor cuts. We have clamps fitted in the track as well so if you are working on a piece of material that is very expensive and you do not want to risk this track moving while you are operating the saw, slides right on the track, you clamp them in place.
Another great feature is if you want to run a router on our track, you can do that. You manage at this if you are trying to do a sink in the counter top, you can set this track up, do your plunge cut with the router and you will have straight lines. Track Saw is going to be launching at the end of October. It is going to retailed from anywhere between $499 and $700 for the corded version. The cordless version is going to be more expensive obviously, anywhere between $700 to $900.
Barry Schwaiger: Marc, what we have here is a new 18-inch bandsaw and I got to tell you, this has been a fun project. We have spent the development for about three years it is 2005. And I think, maybe the best way to describe this development is for lack of better verbiage a retaliation on some ministry trans. You know as well as I do, you look back in same machines that have been built over the years and they start out pretty good integrity and they become a product of subsequent cost reduction activity. And suddenly one day, you wake up and the machine is not new what it used to be and you compare the old and the new.
And so, what we did here is we went from the ground up compromised nothing in the equality and the integrity of the machine and then that is a product that we had done here. So, what I would like to do is to show you some of those features to illustrate that very point. You take a look at the fence here and this is somewhat reminisce at what you would see on a table saw. The locking mechanism we would call this or (muffled) fence on our table saw line. Subsequently, we have the slides that can be removed, the side plate, we put into a secondary position here. Of course we know the implications here is this guard is simply can be lowered almost all the way to the work piece for ripping thin strips here. Protect your hands from this exposed blade.
Barry Schwaiger: We pull this off, we can also replace it with a resolve bin. Resolve bin can be put on here and moved in the position. So high quality fence we think will be appreciated on this saw. We go up through the, got post it simply here. This need features going on here, full 18 inches are resaw here and also 18 inches of throat. We have adapted the European methodology of guarding all four sides of the blade and if you could come around here and look you will notice the need feature here on the thrust bearing. What we have done is we try to make this saw work well for both resawing and then maybe small touch raw work where we have actually stabilized our function built in with the thrust bearing work in the capsulated backside of the blade.
So little things like that totally tool as adjustments, those are all improvements. If you want to take a look up here at the wheel. I think hopefully the first thing you will notice is the heft through the wheel, gas turn, lot of inertia here. You know the devils in the details. It stinks like this when you look at the tension rod that you know, it is a very strong square acme thread here. This is something that is, when you grab a hold of, you know you got a tool and not a toy. Take a look at the bottom of the saw here, obviously another hefty cast turned wheel dust collection at two positions, try to collect as much as you can at the source and if it does not work persuade the remainder into a secondary port. Foot brake there that is electro cleaning a log for the motor. If you tap that, it will disconnect vaults to the motor and subsequently you can stop it if you press on it.
I will come around at the backside of the saw and show you some features there. As you know blade detentioning is a good idea when the machine is not in use for a while and making that easy is what we are trying to do here. There is the detention position for the lever. We have seen this in the industry those, such as the quarter detention system. and subsequently on this side we have four blade release. So we put that back to detention position. You can see we have exaggerated the scale here and with that big acme thread, you can get to where you are going rather quickly rather than too many turns of the hand whether to get you to your destinations. So tracking adjustments here, we put on the tracking lock. So as you make that adjustment you can lock it in the position and maintain that setting.
Come down here, we will see the table tilting function. Loosen that up. This will tilt with the hand wheel and if you look at band saws on the market today. You know, if you ever want to go into the negative position typically there will be a stop ball here. At first, I got to go positive, remove the stop ball, you will negative. I will just signed up for recalibrating all that when I come back to the 90-degree position but if you do things like this just make a removable plate where that ball can hide away when you are in the negative position. Now I can come back and I have it signed up for time consuming recalibration of the left vault.
Just take a look at the motor here, 5 horsepower only. We got a single entry phase. So we think, you know with that collection of features and the heft to the machine hopefully delivering on that original statement, we built this on the ground up with the integrity first in four-months demand.
Tom Beck: This is the brand new delta unit saw truly redesigned from the top to the bottom. We proudly have it made in the USA sticker on this saw. We are very excited about this saw and a lot of positive response here at the IWF show here in Atlanta. When you look at this saw one thing you will notice is the tabletop substantially bigger than our previous unit. We have this tabletop cast and ground in North America. We do not bring this, and from Asia, we bring it in North America so we could control the quality of our cast iron top and ensure that is a lot.
I just want you top the saw, which you will notice this is a guarding an improved guarding. Very easy to take the guard off. Very easy to take the kick back fingers off and you will see that riving knife which we can adjust by handle in the front of the saw to blow the blade or we can pull it out if need be. The nice thing about this, a lot of the guards previously had this saws for somewhat difficult for people to operate.
Here with this execution, you can very easily take it off put it back on, use it in a riving knife position or with the kick back fingers and guard on the saw. You will also notice a red button here with this spindle lock. Spindle lock in the saw, locks up blade in place, one wrench to loosen that knot and remove the blade. I would like to show you this drawer. We have storage in the drawer for blades with a guards for inserts and also a very large wrench. So you do not have a situation where you are banging your knuckles into the blades. So there is easy access there. There has been a lock to remove that blade with a very large wrench.
Our one-piece cast iron trunion system here is totally redesigned. The reason why we had to redesign that is because of our upfront controls in the unit saw. To see how your babble, you have a high adjustment on the saw right upfront versus the side. The heavy-duty one-piece cast iron construction allows us to do that. Inside the saw, the mortises are blades shrilled. They are very important for dust collection. What we do is incorporate the blade shroud with the dust tossed which exits the back for effective dust collection.
If for whatever reason some of that dust does not go through that shroud and goes in the cabinet of the saw or connect it in the back of the saw allows a removal from that shroud as well as from the cabinet simultaneously. So it improves the dust collection significantly on our saw. The piece motor fence system, or the most popular fence systems in the industry is included with this saw and we have improved it even better the fence and table board and prove that to make sure we are on the situations where it will work overtime. Previously on the Bismarck table a solid wood support through out which in humid damp environments could have it tensed, overtime to work which will make sure that this was not flash to your cast iron. We change to our configuration with the metal frame, steel frame all the way around still runners going across underneath to allow for a solid structures here that is not going to work or twist for that customer. It will be available in 3 horsepower, 5 horsepower as well and you will have it in two sizes. You have a smaller 36-inch and you have the 52-inch size as well.
Metal based will be available for this saw.
Peter Kennedy: General international is created a new style of band saw, an expandable band saw that will allow you to do any size of band saw blade in length between 93 ½ inches and a 106 inches. To contrast to a traditional style band saw, the conventional C-shaped cast iron frame is usually split in the back post. It allows for a riser black that will give you 12 inches under guides.
The problem with using a riser block on this C-shaped cast iron frame is it alters a continuity of the machine itself. So what we have done is we have taken a fully loaded band saw. When I say fully loaded, this is a 15-inch machine. It has cast iron wheels, rack and pinion on the front end for racing and lowering the guide and guard system built in work plate, quick release tensioning, and opposing ball bearing blade guides. This is a 2-speed machine. We have developed a rack and pinion system also for the table, for tilting it and a reader, which will tell you which angle you are setting the table at.
So those are the standard features that come with this machine. We have incorporated a little laser light into it and of course, it comes with the rip fence for resign. Traditional thinking right now, people look forward 12 inches under guides for resign This machine now, because it gives you the ability to move between a 93 ½ and a 105-inch blade, we have given you the ability to raise and lower the upper wheel so to accommodate any length of the blade that you may have. So if you are doing fine work, you may want a 93 ½-inch blade that will keep the distance between the guides a little closer. If you are going to do resign, you use a 105-inch blade, which will give you the 12 inches under guides.
Jay Andrews: This is really a good drift master fence system. Well a good drift master fence system is designed to be adaptable to not only to our saws but to other saws in its electro fence system and it gives you advantages over the other fence systems in that it is a high/low fence system just like others are but that is done with a tool free change simply losing the fence, slide it off, and you can flip there from high to low position without any tools and lock it back in place. It also offers you the benefit to drive back and use a little more on the infinite side if you are free to long stock through just like what the European style fence on the table saw. And that can be positioned just with the quick twisted up. Also one of the things that we find that people do not do is that they do not do just the drift on the band saw of and enough because it is hard to do that because of the Allen wrench and it is very difficult to do.
What we have done is we made it very easy by simply unlocking the handle and grabbing a hold of the start wheel and making that adjustment very quickly, very simply, it locks in and now your drift could be set every time you change the blade which it should be. Most people failed to do that. Now this is a traditional fence system that can be locked or unlocked with a handle and then it could be simply swift up and down the course of the rail here but also the threads can be engage by simply moving the little lever from one position over to the next position. We are not, is moved over. It will engage to thread stocking as we turned the handle, the fence will move over incrementally and you can either count turns or go to the graduation scale on the edge of the hand rail and move it over. Start. You are doing a veneer cuts rather than doing your veneer cuts on the inside with a small distance to your blade. You can actually do the veneer cut on the outside of the band saw and with your joint and stock up against the fence.
Real quick, this is the Laguna Platinum service mortiser. It is a slot mortiser, a European style slot mortiser that allows us to do side to side mortising. It will do plunch cuts and it runs at three-access table. The table will raise and lower on dovetail waste with a quick twist of a handle. This raises and lowers on dovetail waste that uses and acme thread that is screwed on the bottom. And it has a feature that you do not see on many mortisers which is a dust collection.. It has got a 4-inch port right on the bottom that will suck a few of the chips although you get a feel in the shaft, but it helped in the aid in the dust collection on the machine.
This one is maybe designed for doing furniture parts and small work. It has side limit stops that are at the front edge of the table. Those are simply just a twist of the knob and easily positioned up and down the rail and that it will set to side to side travel limits for the mortise. Your work piece can also be angled with the Miter gauge that is included, and at just tilt, it got a nice fence system on that one and that you could use the flip stop on the top here as well, should have a production stop and then the work piece is securely fasting in place with the cam action. This is a two-position clamp. So if you are doing larger pieces you can move an outboard and it clamps right on the locks right in.
Prices on this one, you are looking at about $995.00 for this machine.
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