Curt,very neat On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:58 PM, curt george <curtgeo...@wowway.com> wrote:
> ** > It may now be big news here, but I made some acrylic drum sticks and one > corrian drum stick.last weekend. > It took some playing around with the Legacy, I first tried cutting form > the side. using a template. This method did not work out well. The acrylic > material had to much play in it while cutting. > So I then cut form the top, it worked out much better. Again the play was > more than I expected,So I had to make lots of very light cuts to make > these, I made two sets of sticks, and then while the gentleman was looking > around I made him one corrian stick. I don't know if these stick will ever > be used. but the man was very happy with them. > The man supplied the acrylic material, $125.00 for four sticks 1"x16".was > what he paid for the material. > I charged him $100.00 and it took me 4 1/2 hours to turn. (by the way the > lathe was also used, for the heads of the sticks, as well as sanding and > polishing.) > He asked if he could come back AND have me make some more in the future? > Who am I to refuse money for an easy job. ;-P > The Next time I will be better perpared, and it will not take me so long > to make the next sets. I learned a lot on this job. and made some neat > stuff to make this job, even easer for the future. > I will post more pictures of the jigs that I made on a later date. I have > some modifying of them before they are ready for show & tell .Perhaps in a > few days, we will see??? ;-) > C.A.G. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To post to this group, send email to > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
