Someone who has a good table saw but not a different appropriate tool.Originally Posted by Drew Wiley
Someone who has a good table saw but not a different appropriate tool.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
People get obsessed with machines, but often the appropriate tool for a one-off is a hand tool. By the time you bought the equipment (a shaper, I guess) and learned how to use it, you could have hand cut 40 finger joints. Its like the difference between LF and digital
Hand tools are great, especially if you have the appropriate one and the knowledge of how to use it.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
I'd like to know more about the little milling etc machine...
+1 for hand tools. Though I love good machines.
Anyone ever used fiberglass and epoxy for making LF camera parts?
I'm seeing this as a challenge to my inventiveness...
Neil
To be honest, I'm not too in love with sapele - but then the quality of mahogany began to deteriorate from the middle of the 19th century as the better sources became used up. Walnut is about the most reliable and available wood for camera making these days.
Me neither - but the walnut cost half as much again and to be honest I'd rather make the mistakes on the cheaper woodLack of workshop facilities also limits my options with regard to supplies.
Neil
There has been some progress. What would have taken half an hour with the proper tools (and/or rather more woodworking skills than I possess) took most of the day, but...
The lathe in saw-table mode, with added bits to allow a series of parallel cuts to the same depth:
A test corner, made from the wreckage of yesterday's efforts - seems OK.
And the first corner on the back box, just after glueing.
I'm a bit happier now!
Neil
That's great progress, Neil!
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
I love walnut, it has a number of good characteristics for furniture, gunstocks, cameras and even fire wood (scraps) but increasingly I'd rather work in hard maple mainly because I don't care for the walnut dust exposure. Cherry is also good wood for cameras and detailed wood work.
Only sapele I've worked with has been plywood.
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