Clary Lake Woodworking School News Page

Welcome to our new web site!  We are excited to share all the news from Clary Lake Woodworking School.  We hope you will be motivated to share your interest in current or future classes.  Feel free to cruise around on the site and take a tour.  Rick Gallion is ready to speak with you personally about your interests, projects, and skill building opportunities. 

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New Clary Lake Wood Working School Video

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Clary Lake Woodworking School Gets New Mortiser

When I saw this machine in the Woodsmith magazine last year I knew I had to build it.  It uses a router motor, and I just happened to have a Porter Cable motor in a fixed base just sitting on its duff and not earning its keep, so it was a perfect fit.  Using a brand new set of spiral upcut bits, it can do 1/4″, 38″, and 1/2″ mortises. What this machine gives is the clean walls of a router cut mortise, plus the visibility and ease of set up of the hollow chisel mortiser, and does it almost twice as fast.  Does this mean I’m getting rid of my Delta Hollow Chisel mortiser I’ve had for over 20 years, not on your life.

The field tests are continuing, but I am very pleased with the results so far.  For those who worry about the rounded ends of router cut mortises, you may relax.  First off it only takes a couple of minutes to round over the tenons (there goes the time you saved cutting the mortis), secondly I had a brain storm the other day that I have yet to try, but will soon –  use this machine and the hollow chisel mortiser together.  A square hole at each end of the mortis then use the new machine to quickly mill out between them.  Cool, huh?  I’ll let you know how it works.

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Website Launch

20130630-0456The Clary Lake Woodworking School of Jefferson, Maine announces the launch of its new website, built by George Fergusson and Rick Gallion.  The website will provide information about the school, courses offered, registration, information about lodging at the on-site B&B and places of interest in the Mid-Coast Region of Maine.

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Router Table Project

Router Table built by…

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SAWSTOP AT CLARY LAKE WOODWORKING SCHOOL

CLARY LAKE WOODWORKING SCHOOL NOW HAS A SAWSTOP http://www.sawstop.com

Saws, even with the best training and supervision, are dangerous, but with Sawstop the possibility of injury from the blade is eliminated.  With Sawstop, the safety comes first, and is followed by unmatched quality, precision and meticulous engineering. SawStop saws are built to last, built to cut, and built to protect.

How It Works? It’s So Easy

1. Monitor & Detects – The blade carries a small electrical signal. When skin contacts the blade, the signal changes because the human body is conductive. The change to the signal activates the safety system.

2. Brake Activation – An aluminum brake springs into the spinning blade, stopping.  The blade’s angular momentum drives it beneath the table, removing the risk of subsequent injury. Power to the motor is shut off. All this happens in less than 5 milliseconds!

3. Reset – Resetting the saw yourself is easy. Simply replace the blade and affordable brake cartridge and your saw is operational. The entire reset process takes less than five minutes.

Hobbyists, contractors, cabinet makers, DIY’ers, celebrities and educators choose SawStop everyday. It’s the no-compromise SawStop engineering that makes them choose these saws. When SawStop appeared on the market in 2005, the saws took the industry by storm. We addressed a problem that seemed unsolvable, and that most had accepted as the norm. Media large and small, from Time Magazine to bloggers across the internet lauded this amazing marriage of innovation and quality. Go to the Sawstop website to see it in action.

 

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New Saw Stop

your new saw stop.

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Rick demonstrating the use of a chisel.

 

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