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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:59 am
- Forum: Stummels
- Topic: Which Sand paper is best?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5780
Re: Which Sand paper is best?
I don't have any experience with the Mirlon pads, sorry.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:08 am
- Forum: Stummels
- Topic: Which Sand paper is best?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5780
Re: Which Sand paper is best?
A latecomer, as always in this forum… 😃 I like mirka abrasives, their whole range is pretty good. Which type/line of Mirka do you use? The WPF? Gold? Also for wetsanding? Depends what is available. It's all good quality so I don't think it will make a huge difference which specific range you choose...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:06 am
- Forum: Stummels
- Topic: Which Sand paper is best?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5780
Re: Which Sand paper is best?
Don't know if it's the same stuff but Klingspor in the UK has been very poor quality in my experience.dogcatcher wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:32 am I used klingspor for years. I order online because their shipping cost are real fair. Quick service and everything sanding you can think of. They also carry a lot of other stuff I use.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:52 am
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Working with ivory/mammoth
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1412
Re: Working with ivory/mammoth
Glad I could help.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Getting coarse ABRANET on a French Wheel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3468
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Getting coarse ABRANET on a French Wheel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3468
Re: Getting coarse ABRANET on a French Wheel
Clever!
Never got on with a French wheel myself.
Never got on with a French wheel myself.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Working with ivory/mammoth
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1412
Re: Working with ivory/mammoth
Sand a flat area, then glue it to a piece of scrap in your lathe chuck. You can now turn it or drill it (gently) as needed.
- Tue Aug 29, 2023 4:05 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Lathe axis concentricity problem
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4379
Re: Lathe axis concentricity problem
If your tailstock and headstock are aligned properly as they appear to be in the last picture then your block is simply not correctly aligned in the jaws. You are using a chuck with pins, so just rotate the block slightly.
- Fri Jul 14, 2023 3:33 am
- Forum: Buy, Sell, or Trade
- Topic: Falcon Pipe Thread dies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3098
Re: Falcon Pipe Thread dies
Ok, i'd be interested to see when you do. I have threaded briar for some projects and found the results to be rather rough with the briar tending to "chip out". Falcon threads appear to be milled rather than cut to avoid this.
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 3:43 pm
- Forum: Buy, Sell, or Trade
- Topic: Falcon Pipe Thread dies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3098
Re: Falcon Pipe Thread dies
Have you got a picture of the threads the die makes on briar?
- Sat May 20, 2023 7:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19357
Re: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
Yes to all that. I drill in with the tapered bit some certain unspecified amount that is less than "Oh shit that's too far" (having some rough idea what I'm making, be it a lovat or whatever). Then I choose the actual stem length visually, with the thing actually sitting stuck in the stum...
- Sat May 20, 2023 7:45 am
- Forum: Buy, Sell, or Trade
- Topic: Steve Greathouse Jaws
- Replies: 2
- Views: 906
Re: Steve Greathouse Jaws
Any chance you could send me a picture? Email address is on my website.
Cheers.
Cheers.
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19357
Re: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
Nah that's the tool he uses to pick bits of pepperoni out of his teeth.
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:27 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19357
Re: Process Shots, Boring Pipe
You call that a billiard?
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:56 am
- Forum: Stummels
- Topic: Shankless pipe?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3456
Re: Shankless pipe?
I don't agree with Bighornbriar, the shorter airway makes no difference to how hot the pipe smokes, old urban myth of pipemaking.
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:40 am
- Forum: Restoration, Repair, and Maintenance
- Topic: Internal shank repair
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5542
Re: Internal shank repair
I took on a repair job recently for a customer, I normally refuse all repair work (on pipes I didn't make), partly because it's badly paid annoying work and of course the issues with payment, postage etc. Because he is a local guy and very persuasive I caved and said yes, of course I soon wished I h...
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 5:13 am
- Forum: Restoration, Repair, and Maintenance
- Topic: Internal shank repair
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5542
Re: Internal shank repair
Nice repair there, lucky you had enough material on the shank.
- Mon Feb 06, 2023 7:53 am
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Compressor and cabinet
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2626
Re: Compressor and cabinet
That compressor is about twice the size of mine. At that kind of size you are probably wasting money, there is a limit to how much air you can get through a sandblasting gun and the tubes leading to it, my gun runs on 1/4" hose, at 90 psi it's maximum CFM is only slightly higher than my compres...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 5:55 am
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Question for Lathe Yoda Chris
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3506
Re: Question for Lathe Yoda Chris
That would be fascinating to see.
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 5:46 am
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: Question for Lathe Yoda Chris
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3506
Re: Question for Lathe Yoda Chris
If your cutter was not on centre height that could cause chatter too as it the more flexible part (in this case the workpiece) gets pushed or pulled up or down. The live centre would instead make the workpiece the stable part and stop this movement. On a lighter cut you know wouldn't have enough pre...