Bullet2012
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if its traditional pork pie pastry even that wont be an option.
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My Old Landy
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Designed and lasered up a display case for rolling stock. It was a test piece but I am pleased with the outcome so will make a few more.
oldbikedavey
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Mostly, progress on making a stowage space for my recently acquired woodworking dust extractor, which is now happily ensconced underneath the parts washer.....
I have to fabricate a 3" hose adaptor for the inlet, but that's no great hardship.
It ought to be 4" hose but 3" is what I have hanging around, so that's what it will very likely get.
Or not, as the case may be......
I have to fabricate a 3" hose adaptor for the inlet, but that's no great hardship.
It ought to be 4" hose but 3" is what I have hanging around, so that's what it will very likely get.
Or not, as the case may be......
Filled most of the bag with the branches I'd prepped as kept tripping over them whilst shredding.
Also cut one of scrap pile brake discs in half, has now confirmed my theory that I can make a flywheel chipper with 7cm blades from it as a next project but also given me the idea of a stump grinder from the other discs in the pile as the cast pin stubs would certainly do the job!
It also turned me into a great Robert Downey JR tropic thunder impersonation, should have wore a mask soooo much rust
Also cut one of scrap pile brake discs in half, has now confirmed my theory that I can make a flywheel chipper with 7cm blades from it as a next project but also given me the idea of a stump grinder from the other discs in the pile as the cast pin stubs would certainly do the job!
It also turned me into a great Robert Downey JR tropic thunder impersonation, should have wore a mask soooo much rust
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Not exactly today, but over the course of the last few weeks I've been working on this (its a copy of a Duesenberg Alamo):
I laminated a blank from a couple of mahogany boards, and also cut a piece of redwood as a test piece as well - mainly because its so long since I used the CNC that I wanted something sacrificial that I could use to check tool paths and settings etc. Cut out a jig from 10mm ply to hold the blank in position - the body is symmetrical so I can flip it over and machine from both sides.
Machining the back of the headstock with a ball nose end mill.
Front of the body on both the dummy and the real thing. The mahogany machined really well, great finish straight from the machine
You can see the glue line on the mahogany blank - the two boards were glued with epoxy.
Made a couple of jigs to machine the holes for the control pots and pickup selector switch. I didn't do them on the CNC as I didn't have the hardware to measure up or visualise in-situ. Just as well, as I cocked it up first go ( which is exactly why I had the softwood dummy to test everything out!). So, some plugs and epoxy to repair the mess, and another go with a slightly modified jig and it all worked out.
The headstock veneer is cut from a piece of Curly Blackbutt I brought back from Australia a couple of years ago. The truss rod cover is from a scrap of ebony that I've had for years - engraved on the CNC and filled with pigmented epoxy. It's just a purely decorative thing, as there's no truss rod on a lapsteel as the neck has such a big x-section. Next on the list is to finish the body - it will be painted, probably with rattle cans from a proper old school auto paint shop near me. I'm thinking Old English White (a BMC paint colour if I remember correctly). I'm just off to see them now in the hope they will recommend the right sort of primer and clear lacquer to go with the colour.
I laminated a blank from a couple of mahogany boards, and also cut a piece of redwood as a test piece as well - mainly because its so long since I used the CNC that I wanted something sacrificial that I could use to check tool paths and settings etc. Cut out a jig from 10mm ply to hold the blank in position - the body is symmetrical so I can flip it over and machine from both sides.
Machining the back of the headstock with a ball nose end mill.
Front of the body on both the dummy and the real thing. The mahogany machined really well, great finish straight from the machine
You can see the glue line on the mahogany blank - the two boards were glued with epoxy.
Made a couple of jigs to machine the holes for the control pots and pickup selector switch. I didn't do them on the CNC as I didn't have the hardware to measure up or visualise in-situ. Just as well, as I cocked it up first go ( which is exactly why I had the softwood dummy to test everything out!). So, some plugs and epoxy to repair the mess, and another go with a slightly modified jig and it all worked out.
The headstock veneer is cut from a piece of Curly Blackbutt I brought back from Australia a couple of years ago. The truss rod cover is from a scrap of ebony that I've had for years - engraved on the CNC and filled with pigmented epoxy. It's just a purely decorative thing, as there's no truss rod on a lapsteel as the neck has such a big x-section. Next on the list is to finish the body - it will be painted, probably with rattle cans from a proper old school auto paint shop near me. I'm thinking Old English White (a BMC paint colour if I remember correctly). I'm just off to see them now in the hope they will recommend the right sort of primer and clear lacquer to go with the colour.
