Variable speed is the single most useful thing you can have in a shop when shaping and buffing are the task.
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- Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:47 pm
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Buffing Speed
- Replies: 4
- Views: 139
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:26 am
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Buffing Speed
- Replies: 4
- Views: 139
Re: Buffing Speed
Depends on what you are buffing and why.
I vary from 800 or so when lots of wrap-around is desired, to 3000+ when doing a final polish/shine on NYH ebonite.
I vary from 800 or so when lots of wrap-around is desired, to 3000+ when doing a final polish/shine on NYH ebonite.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Getting coarse ABRANET on a French Wheel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2891
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Working with ivory/mammoth
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1143
Re: Working with ivory/mammoth
Four jaw chucks are your friend.
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 6:49 pm
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Getting coarse ABRANET on a French Wheel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2891
Re: Getting coarse ABRANET on a French Wheel
It's one of those labor on the front end saves it on the back end situations. Abranet lasts a lot longer than paper.
Also, paper coarser than 120 or so cracks when bent too sharply, while this stuff doesn't. You can "go rougher" with it.
Also, paper coarser than 120 or so cracks when bent too sharply, while this stuff doesn't. You can "go rougher" with it.
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 10:38 pm
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Getting coarse ABRANET on a French Wheel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2891
Getting coarse ABRANET on a French Wheel
Ordinary sandpaper is a PITA to install on a French wheel, and open mesh stuff like Abranet can't be done at all (meaning without folds or lumps) unless tools are used to hold everything in place. It's springy, it's sharp, and takes tin snips to cut cleanly. It fights being wrapped around something ...
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:04 pm
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Big English-y Billiard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4687
Re: Big English-y Billiard
Thanks for the props, guys, but I just copy stuff. True pipemakers see shapes in their mind, sketch 'em on paper or briar blocks, and produce a three dimensional object of what they saw. Since they also get violently attacked by briar dust 24/7 and are engaged in an endless battle with the Briar Def...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:08 am
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Big English-y Billiard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4687
Big English-y Billiard
Though repair work is my thing, I enjoy making a whole pipe from time to time. Why this particular one? I'm growing to like big pipes, but they are difficult to find in classic shapes, and swoopy, tulip-bowled freehands don't flip my switch. https://i.postimg.cc/tgz51Tmj/P1060797.jpg https://i.posti...
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:18 am
- Forum: Stummels
- Topic: Residual moisture in briar (morta etc.)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3154
Re: Residual moisture in briar (morta etc.)
Truly serious carvers who have been at it a long time and shoot for perfection in execution return "work in progress" stummels to the shelf for several weeks (or even a few months) after every step that removes significant wood. The reason is because moisture in the block will redistribute...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:11 pm
- Forum: Stem Work
- Topic: Eliminating tiny light gaps
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3999
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:30 pm
- Forum: Stem Work
- Topic: Eliminating tiny light gaps
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3999
Re: Eliminating tiny light gaps
Does this seem like something that would work? (you asked)...
Such squaring tools work fine in theory, but not in practice.
Here's why, as well as an approach that does:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waZaX9J ... x0&index=1
Such squaring tools work fine in theory, but not in practice.
Here's why, as well as an approach that does:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waZaX9J ... x0&index=1
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:42 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Lathe axis concentricity problem
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3901
Re: Lathe axis concentricity problem
Calling Chris Askwith, calling Chris Askwith... Come in Chris...
- Tue May 16, 2023 2:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16945
Re: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
...then I cut it a hair long, face it up on the lathe, drill in with 1/16" to an inch or so, then flip it back around, figure out how far I want the tapered bit to actually go, where it needs to end, and I drill that and hopefully shit connects. There's a way to work faster and more accurately...
- Mon May 01, 2023 7:37 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16945
- Mon May 01, 2023 2:13 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16945
Re: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
If I made pipes of my own---as opposed to matching texture(s) on repairs---I'd wonder what one of these applied to briar would do after sharpening the pins and cutting them to slightly different lengths. Bzzzzzt Bzzzzzt Bzzzzzt https://www.eastwood.com/rockwood-pistol-grip-needle-scaler.html?gclid=C...
- Sun Apr 30, 2023 5:52 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16945
Re: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
It looks like the inventors of the finish do chisel-gougey thing, then twisty-pointy thing, then wire-brushy thing: https://i.postimg.cc/wBWC89zK/Screen-Shot-2023-04-30-at-4-38-27-PM.png https://i.postimg.cc/6qZgvRvw/Screen-Shot-2023-04-30-at-4-39-28-PM.png https://i.postimg.cc/3R82pH0w/Screen-Shot-...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:37 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16945
Re: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
I see.
You understand I can never look at my Antiquari again without thinking of that, right?
May all your Moosehead and Molson go flat the instant the bottle or can is opened, forevermore.
You understand I can never look at my Antiquari again without thinking of that, right?
May all your Moosehead and Molson go flat the instant the bottle or can is opened, forevermore.
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16945
Re: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
This got me to wondering about Castello's approach since I didn't remember seeing a smooth band on my one and only Antiquari. So I walked all the way into another room (that's committment and determination, rat thar) and eyeballed the critter. Sure enough, they START with a masked area (you can bare...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:36 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16945
Re: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
Though you didn't ask for feedback, Imma gonna go there anyway. :twisted: The only "jumps out at me" thing is the smooth band at the end of the shank. I know it's more commonly done than not, and requires an extra step to eliminate (the Dunhill factory had several women who did nothing els...
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:44 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16945
Re: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
Q #2 ---
Do I spy with my little eye the tool used for the first step of texturize-ification?
(i.e. before the bed-of-nails twisty thing)
Do I spy with my little eye the tool used for the first step of texturize-ification?
(i.e. before the bed-of-nails twisty thing)