Thank you Neil! Yes, I will definitely correct that little mishap as explained by CeeJay & you! I actually feel a bit stupid for not thinking of a solution like this.

Kind regards,
Oliver

Thank you Stig!

Kind regards,
Oliver

Love that! And, great to hear from you!

Kind regards,
Oliver

Thank you very much, Raj!



Today it was about upgrading the basement workshop/ enhancing the usability of my work table.

I was introduced to this earlier this year on a German woodworking community forum. It's a Swiss company that makes quite some innovative products, among them a vise to attach to the front/face of a working table. But they also make hand planes and chisels with exchangeable carbide blades, aimed at tradespeople with a lot of "on site" work that can't set up, or don't want to, setup sharpening equipment. Personally, I think they lack a "soul", but they definitely serve a purpose. But the vise seemed to be a great product, especially after quite a few people I trust have had great results with it, over quite some time of actual use.

The RALI press evolution 1100 mm

https://rali-shop.com/vice/rali-press-evo-1100-mm.html  Please make sure you check out the demo video on the bottom of that site.

Packaged.



Scope of supply for the 1100 mm variant.





Drilling with help of the piloting/centering device. (Included with purchase.)



Connector.



Driving the T25 head screws. Bracket for easy installation and squaring it up visible on right side. (Included with purchase.)



Ready to use.









One word, ingenious. It's really a fantastic addition to the basement workshop/ enhancement of my work table.


Kind regards,
Oliver

That’s very interesting Oliver. Can’t you just start a shop for exotic tools? 

It reminds me of the old Zyliss 4in1 vice. I recently got hold of one of these in mint condition.

It’s been featured in here as well:
https://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?pretty;board=festool-jigs-tool-enhancements;topic=mft-and-zyliss-vise.0

That's pretty slick Oliver.

It would be nice to have something like that on the front rail of an MFT/3.

That's pretty slick Oliver.

It would be nice to have something like that on the front rail of an MFT/3.

It is! Seems like there's an opportunity for someone making a right-angle clamping accessory that uses F-clamps. Though, the low profile of this system is definitely part of the draw.

Thanks for the positive discussion, everyone!

I will show it & it's possibilities from time to time, when I'm working with it.


Kind regards,
Oliver

Hi everyone,

I still owed a picture of the finished build-in. The trim/skirting ist still missing because I don't want to drive out to that store at the moment, but besides that it's all said and done.



One other task was to make some reliable brackets to hold shelves, I used some leftover aluminum profiles. The Rali was of great help, fixating my old Black & Decker jobber so I could easily cut the aluminum.











I should have thought about that earlier, but the 4mm plywood is not strong enough to make reliable shelve board, so I'm getting some 8mm in future.

I still want to share a picture with the 4mm plywood shelves, just take it as a bad example.



Since the temperature around here is too warm for Oct./Nov./Dec. the garden requires much more attention right now than in earlier years. Here I set up a new compost. The old one needed to be cut out as it was tied down by all that ivy, and it's content needed to be strained and spread.











And the new one in place.






Kind regards,
Oliver

Thanks Neil!

That is actually a good idea I hadn't thought of! I might even have some more of the aluminum. Need to check. Thank you very much!

Kind regards,
Oliver

Oliver, Wow where do you get your energy? You should come give me a hand setting my shop up and landscaping this place

Wow you really get into the Xmas spirit to. My daughters are the ones in my house that put the tree up and wife decorates.

since you asked: When I was growing up on my uncle's farm in the Berkshires, we went "up on the hill " for our Christmas decorations. We always got our tree from our pasture lot. We got ground pine to make our wreaths. W  hen I moved back to Connecticut with my Mom, the first adventure I had with Christmas decorations was to get into trouble.

I decided to go into the woods for our Christmas tree. I drove my brother and neighbor pre teen to a forest area where i had noticed many pine and hemlock trees. While tying two trees to the car, along came a car with three people in it. They asked where we had gotten the trees. I answered that we had gotten them from the woods down by the reservoir.

The leader of the three asked who owned the woods in question.

"I think the Water Company owns the land."

"Wrong. I own the land from here on down to the water."
The lady in the group told the owner that "... we should take them to the police..."

The man who had asked the questions suggested "... we don't need to take you anywhere. Take your trees, but just don't come back next year..."

A week later, my mom was at Christmas party. She had always been an outgoing person. She got into a conversation with the town judge. She told of her two children getting into a problem with a local land owner over a couple of trees. The Judge replied, "I think I was your landowner..."

To which my mom got into a long conversation in which the Judge told her we had been very polite and had offered to pay for the trees. They ended being good friends.

The next year, the judge called my mom and offered for us to "go back in his woods to get your tree..."  And for the next two years, until I graduated from high school, we always got out tree from the judge's property.

Tinker

PS: My wife, even tho our kids are older than both of us, always gets an advent card with all the goodies for all the kids in the family. She grew up in Germany and continues the practice even tho she has been in the USA for over 60 years.

I have a Zyliss and although I do not use the clamping function much., I use the attachment to hold my Milwaukee corded drills for holding sanding drums, burrs or brushes. Makes a great third hand.

Quote from: jobsworth on November 30, 2020, 10:46 AM

Wow you really get into the Xmas spirit to. My daughters are the ones in my house that put the tree up and wife decorates.

Oh yeah, Christmas. -> http://bigrradio.com/  Christmas Country Station ... Blasting since Thursday and will be till New Years ... And I'm totally in my comfort zone ...  Ok, on Christmas eve I break out my digital copy of a tape my Mom & Dad put together in the 70ties of German, Flemish, French and English Christmas classics ...

Hope you and yours have a fabulous season!!

Kind regards,
Oliver

Im sort in the spirit this year. I already finished my Xmas shopping even before the wife and kids (mainly my girls) did. This is a new record for me