In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> Does anyone use or did use this item (in a drill press). Leichtung has
> one in their catalog that appears to be identical to the old Wagner.
> Your comments please.
>
I used one to make a curved edge on some raised panels. It
worked but needed a lot of sanding. It also didn't strike me as
the safest thing in the world. Mine's going out at the next
garage sale we have - along with my Ryobi detail sander :-).
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Where ARE those Iraqi WMDs?
Works, but not well enough for me to bring it out anymore. Learning to
surface with a router on rails on endgrain pieces and such has kept it in
the drawer for the last ten years or so.
"good ol'lare simon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Does anyone use or did use this item (in a drill press). Leichtung has
> one in their catalog that appears to be identical to the old Wagner.
> Your comments please.
>
I use it for thicknessing hardwoods for backs and sides in guitar building,
because disk sanding is just too slow. The planer is agressive (you have to be
very careful to keep downward pressure on the workpiece so it doesn't rise up
into the cutter - easy to end up with nothing left in part of the workpiece.
It is also downright scary - nothing between your fingertips and the spinning edge.
If I had a thickness sander, I wouldn't go near this thing. But I don't, and
for a few things I need it.
Be very careful that your drill press spindle is at right angles to the work
surface, and provide a nice big attached table that fully supports the workpiece.
JK
Larry Blanchard wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] says...
>
>>Does anyone use or did use this item (in a drill press). Leichtung has
>>one in their catalog that appears to be identical to the old Wagner.
>>Your comments please.
>>
>
> I used one to make a curved edge on some raised panels. It
> worked but needed a lot of sanding. It also didn't strike me as
> the safest thing in the world. Mine's going out at the next
> garage sale we have - along with my Ryobi detail sander :-).
>
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