Just a brief announcement that I've published an album
showing my home-made thickness sander and a pin router
attachment for my router table:
<http://polyplex.org/cjh/photos/PinRouterThicknessSander/>.
They're not wonderful works to be proud of, but they are
functional and that's all that matters to me.
Clifford Heath.
Prometheus wrote:
> How's that homemade sander working for you? I've been thinking of
> making one for a while.
Pretty well, actually. I've done a couple of veneers down to sub 1mm,
and using 60 grit paper, carved a twisted chain-sawn billet into a
nice plank, which is on the way to becoming a guitar. Gotta be happy
with that!
Have to be careful to fit the feed pressure to the width of what you're
feeding. A 2" wide piece doesn't want much pressure at all, or you'll
get a varying depth of cut and an uneven surface. A mechanical feeder
would clearly be better here, but hey, for $AU50 all up, it's hard to
complain.
K & C Hunter wrote:
> Nice job. I take it the feeding works by the piece being sanded having to
> move "up hill" so to speak. Is this correct.
No - it requires hand feeding because the drum is trying to spit the
work out at you. There doesn't seems to be a danger of it grabbing
and forcibly throwing it at me, but you certainly can't let go while
it's running. I use push sticks for the final part of the cut.
On Sun, 28 May 2006 14:03:47 +1000, Clifford Heath
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Just a brief announcement that I've published an album
>showing my home-made thickness sander and a pin router
>attachment for my router table:
>
><http://polyplex.org/cjh/photos/PinRouterThicknessSander/>.
>
>They're not wonderful works to be proud of, but they are
>functional and that's all that matters to me.
How's that homemade sander working for you? I've been thinking of
making one for a while.
Nice job. I take it the feeding works by the piece being sanded having to
move "up hill" so to speak. Is this correct.
"Clifford Heath" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Prometheus wrote:
>> How's that homemade sander working for you? I've been thinking of
>> making one for a while.
>
> Pretty well, actually. I've done a couple of veneers down to sub 1mm,
> and using 60 grit paper, carved a twisted chain-sawn billet into a
> nice plank, which is on the way to becoming a guitar. Gotta be happy
> with that!
>
> Have to be careful to fit the feed pressure to the width of what you're
> feeding. A 2" wide piece doesn't want much pressure at all, or you'll
> get a varying depth of cut and an uneven surface. A mechanical feeder
> would clearly be better here, but hey, for $AU50 all up, it's hard to
> complain.