I need to make some violin pegs and I have very little experience with wood turning. One option is to work the wood the same as I would with metal, but I don't think wood single points very well. I have a wood lathe I could use, but I want the peg taper to be very accurate and I'm inclined to not try the taper with a gouge by hand. Plus my CNC lathe would make the project much shorter (maybe). So, what would be the best way to CNC wood pegs?
This link shows how the taper is normally trimmed, but this also seems like a poor way of cutting wood: http://hmi.homewood.net/pegjob/ As a side note, I made a peg hole reamer by turning a taper on some unknown piece of steel rod (in other words, probably soft) on my manual lathe, rotated the cutter so the top faced the spindle (brake locked), then cranked the compound (still canted at 1 degree) to use the compound as a shaper. I cut two shallow flutes parallel to the rod axis. The shallow flutes clogged quickly with wood shavings, but I was able to ream four holes and fit three pegs. The problem is, I can't find the fourth, and I can't do my movement #3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdYGmPH9fcs without it. I don't have a video of my performance, so that's not me in the above link. I'll most likely find the missing peg after I make a new peg set. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Using storage to extend the benefits of virtualization and iSCSI Virtualization increases hardware utilization and delivers a new level of agility. Learn what those decisions are and how to modernize your storage and backup environments for virtualization. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51434361/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
