Question:
How do you get both sides of a ring stem addition perfectly faced to fit as a
stem addition?
Thanx,
-Steve
Question: stem rings
- KurtHuhn
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If you have a lathe it's simple
- put the material in your lathe
- face one side
- drill the material
- use a cutoff tool to remove the section you want
Works with either a wood or metal lathe.
If you don't have a lathe, you can use a disk sander with a table and a miter gauge to make it square - but that's pretty close to hit-or-miss.
- put the material in your lathe
- face one side
- drill the material
- use a cutoff tool to remove the section you want
Works with either a wood or metal lathe.
If you don't have a lathe, you can use a disk sander with a table and a miter gauge to make it square - but that's pretty close to hit-or-miss.
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I do the same with a slight variation.KurtHuhn wrote:If you have a lathe it's simple
- put the material in your lathe
- face one side
- drill the material
- use a cutoff tool to remove the section you want
Works with either a wood or metal lathe.
If you don't have a lathe, you can use a disk sander with a table and a miter gauge to make it square - but that's pretty close to hit-or-miss.
-- I pre-cut a tenon on the stem material a little larger than what I anticipate the final tenon size to be.
-- I part off the inlay material a bit longer than the final size I intend it to be
-- I epoxy it onto the tenon
-- After it has dried and I have drilled my mortise, I cut the tenon to final size and face the inlay material at the same time
-- Then I polish both the tenon and the inlay face at the same time
To me, this gives me a little more freedom to also make adjustments to the length of the inlay material and it ensures the inlay is at an exact 90 degrees to the tenon. I imagine everyone has their own way of doing it... just whatever they're comfortable with. YMMV
Dave
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I guess the reason I do it this way is so I can put a radius in the corner between the stem and the shoulder. I can't figure out any other way to do an inlay and still have a radius in the corner--I'm sure a radius isn't totally necessary but I prefer to have one. I just think it looks better.magruder wrote:Thanx Dave.
Interesting idea. :thumb: