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Home made French wheel
Just made this a new French wheel with some plexiglass I picked up at the dump, just gotta add a wool backing and it should work pretty well
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Cool! I was actually just going to the forum to see if anyone else had made one. I had one that was made of aluminum and reworked it last night. How does this one work for you?
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I haven't used yet I just made it but I'll let you know
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Just used it it works really well this is going to take hours off my pipes
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Looks good. Never managed to get on with a french wheel myself, the edges always seemed to catch. Tried making several types but don't use any of them.
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I think it depends on how well you can fold the sandpaper on the wheel. I cut a kind of "sunshine pattern", with an inside circle equal to the diameter of the wheel and long triangular spokes coming out from that diameter. I then put some double sided tape on the back of the wheel and bend the spokes over the back- if you get the id right and the spokes are even you should be able to wrap the sandpaper without any big bumps on the edge.caskwith wrote:Looks good. Never managed to get on with a french wheel myself, the edges always seemed to catch. Tried making several types but don't use any of them.
It matters a lot how flat/convex is your disk. A disk that is almost flat is pretty easy to do, a very convex one is almost impossible (to me) to wrap evenly.
I think there is an old school technique of doing it by just folding the sandpaper around, without any complex cutting. I would love to see how that's done.
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W.Pastuch wrote:I think it depends on how well you can fold the sandpaper on the wheel. I cut a kind of "sunshine pattern", with an inside circle equal to the diameter of the wheel and long triangular spokes coming out from that diameter. I then put some double sided tape on the back of the wheel and bend the spokes over the back- if you get the id right and the spokes are even you should be able to wrap the sandpaper without any big bumps on the edge.caskwith wrote:Looks good. Never managed to get on with a french wheel myself, the edges always seemed to catch. Tried making several types but don't use any of them.
It matters a lot how flat/convex is your disk. A disk that is almost flat is pretty easy to do, a very convex one is almost impossible (to me) to wrap evenly.
I think there is an old school technique of doing it by just folding the sandpaper around, without any complex cutting. I would love to see how that's done.
Sounds like too much work for a lazy arse like me! lol
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There is a technique for folding that works however it is very time consuming
And cramped hands at involved.Jeff Graciks paper for his wheels are laser cut like you described
Why bother folding this is far easier.
And cramped hands at involved.Jeff Graciks paper for his wheels are laser cut like you described
Why bother folding this is far easier.
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Do you guys use cloth backed paper? And if so where do you get flexible enough cloth sand paper
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Cover the back of a sheet of paper with this before cutting:WillAndersonpipes wrote:Do you guys use cloth backed paper? And if so where do you get flexible enough cloth sand paper
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Prem ... stage+tape
Place carefully, edge to edge with no overlaps.
The paper will last damn near forever.
Do NOT expect good results with hardware store cheapie silver duct tape. It isn't the same stuff at all.
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Hmm ok sweet I'll try that. I guess this just kind of reinforces the paper?
Thanks for the help
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Thanks for the help
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