Workshop photos

TreverT · Post by **TreverT** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:18 pm

I just created a Photoshop insta-gallery of a bunch of pics of my workshop, if anyone is interested. I tried to get some unusual shots as well as the typical, "Here's my lathe" pics. In particular, the first pic shows the hand saw I mentioned in another thread that's good for widening and deepening bit slots. There are also some other tools shown for putting a countersink on bowl rims, going sideways to an airhole from the bowl bottom, etc. Enjoy!

http://www.talbertpipes.pair.com/galleries/workshop/

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:32 pm

Whoa! I love the double headed thingamabob that drills in two directions. Maybe if you put to identicle stummels back to back you could drill them twice as fast?

Karol · Post by **Karol** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:52 pm

wow, thanks for that trever! the last machine you already mentioned before:

http://www.talbertpipes.com/2005/11/sha ... rings.html

thanks again, very interesting!

/karol

Karol · Post by **Karol** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:54 pm

in fact i think i emailed you about the "fluid metal"... it's not the silver clay by any chance, or is it? i didn't know such thing exists back then.

TreverT · Post by **TreverT** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:09 pm

Nick wrote:Whoa! I love the double headed thingamabob that drills in two directions. Maybe if you put to identicle stummels back to back you could drill them twice as fast?

It occurs to me to wonder if it's for insta-drilling of handmade stems. Mount the stem rod in the center chuck and put your main airhole bit on one side and your tiny bitslot bit on the other, chunk the two together, and have an instant, perfectly-aligned stem airhole. Who knows?

TreverT · Post by **TreverT** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:10 pm

Karol wrote:in fact i think i emailed you about the "fluid metal"... it's not the silver clay by any chance, or is it? i didn't know such thing exists back then.

No, PMC silver needs firing and changes dimensions. The liquimetal just glops in like thick toothpaste and dries, then I sand it flush.

Holy shit, someone actually reads the blog...!

kbadkar · Post by **kbadkar** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:47 pm

I'm super grateful that you so cheerfully share your experience, knowledge, enthusiam, and tooling in pipe crafting. Good idea with the ball reamer, it's a bitch messing with an airhole-bowl junction with riffler files. Did you also get the flexible soft jaw chuck on a carriage thing from an old St. Claude factory? Nick isn't the only tooling geek drooling and dreaming...

Karol · Post by **Karol** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:55 pm

TreverT wrote:...PMC silver needs firing...

ah of course, i completely forgot about this aspect of the PMC process

Post by **KurtHuhn** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:38 pm

Is that a big motor on that Taig's table, or is it just happy to see you?

TreverT · Post by **TreverT** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:43 am

kbadkar wrote: Did you also get the flexible soft jaw chuck on a carriage thing from an old St. Claude factory?

Yep. That's about the only place to get these things today, that I know of. I've got three of them, in different configurations. I find they drill a less chattery hole than my lathe, even if the spade bit is not symmetrical. Amusingly, I can actually drill a bowl chamber with the thing using only half a bit - I ground one side profile as I liked and just ground the other side down to center, and it drilled fine. Scary.

TreverT · Post by **TreverT** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:46 am

KurtHuhn wrote:Is that a big motor on that Taig's table, or is it just happy to see you?

You never know when you're going to need 5 HP on the Taig, now!

Previous mad owner collected not only machinery and tools but also motors. I've got about twenty-five motors in the attic, some new and still in boxes, of varying sizes from sewing machine to small trash can. This was the only one of the bunch that was the right RPM for the Taig.

I think it's a 3/4 HP, IIRC.

bluesmk · Post by **bluesmk** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:35 pm

Nice pics Trever,
The angle reamer looks old, never saw one like it before, any idea where I can get one?
Dan
Gabrieli Pipes ....by the way, I own one of those large pin vices, and I'm always bitchin' I need a few more! LOL

TreverT · Post by **TreverT** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:03 pm

bluesmk wrote:Nice pics Trever,
The angle reamer looks old, never saw one like it before, any idea where I can get one?

Not the slightest, unfortunately - Like so many of the other odd things I use, it came with the shop.

sethile · Post by **sethile** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:36 pm

Wow, what cool stuff, and what an amazing opportunity. When I grow up I want to buy an old pipe shop! I love old tools, regardless of the trade. Add that to pipe making, and I'm in complete ecstasy! Thanks for the tour!

Incidentally, I think the set of rosewood bars you have in an open box, which is on top of some of your rod stock, that have a little notch out of them, may have originally been bars for a xylophone or a marimba. Only if so, they were never used as they would have had two holes drilled through them to string them onto the frame. Sure looks like them anyway....

I'm so sorry about your briar and morta stock interfering with your sink, but I'm completely willing to help with any of your shop clutter!

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:53 pm

TreverT wrote:It occurs to me to wonder if it's for insta-drilling of handmade stems. Mount the stem rod in the center chuck and put your main airhole bit on one side and your tiny bitslot bit on the other, chunk the two together, and have an instant, perfectly-aligned stem airhole. Who knows?

OOhhh!! Now that'd be cool!