Dan, VERY Nice! Thanks for sharing. You can employ it as a "Home Defense Cudgel" if need be. Let's hope you don't need to!
Mac -----Original Message----- From: <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> Sent: Oct 28, 2023 2:34 PM To: Legacy Ornamental Mills <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Checkering today Yes, 720 index positions was my ambitious goal and I realized either a giant plate, a second duplex set, or (Eureka) a 72 hole plate with a 10 hole vernier would get the 1/2° resolution needed to get into the checkering ballpark. Y'all witnessed the struggle..... :) This handle took about 2 hours. It would take me (a relatively inexperienced checker-er) about two days to lay out, cut, and dress this rather large field. This handle really comes alive with a Danish oil finish! Haven't decided what to use it for. In the mean time, I'll just enjoy looking at it and feeling the crisp texture. Opens up some design features. DanK On Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 11:14:35 AM UTC-4 Curt George wrote: Very nice job. 36 starts is way beyond anything that I've made over the years. Awesome work. thank you. C.A.G. On Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 09:31:53 AM EDT, cdkr...@gmail.com <cdkr...@gmail.com> wrote: Curt, this is the same process used on the proof of concept test pieces. It is a 60° magnate router bit with three carbide lips sharpened to a very crisp point. The wood is apple which is a fine wood for carving. I used 36 holes of the 72 hole index ring I made on the standard index gear because the diameter is much smaller than the test pieces. The spacing changes as it proceeds down the taper, almost imperceptibly but the depth of cut is the same all the way. The depth of cut is fairly deep at 0.063" (1/16"). Precision at every point is paramount. Even the imperceptible backlash of my REVO was too much. Had to cut unidirectional. Tedious. But this handle went quickly because it's short and only 36 starts. DanKOn Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 6:55:36 AM UTC-4 Ccm Ccm wrote: Very nice On Friday, October 27, 2023, cdkr...@gmail.com <cdkr...@gmail.com> wrote: Finished the cross hatch. Look at how sharp and crisp the diamonds are. This raw off the LOM, no hand touch up. The change in spacing is barely detectable from large to small end of this 2 3/4" stretch. DanK On Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 11:05:41 PM UTC-4 Tim Ziegler wrote: Very Good Dan. It's great to see a plan coming together. Kind Regards,Timothy J. Ziegler On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 4:56 PM cdkr...@gmail.com <cdkr...@gmail.com> wrote: Here's the work so far. The taper is just a hair over 2° and I wondered how much that would affect the spacing at the small end. I probably won't see it until touching up. You can see the tilt of the spindle rails that put the cutting surface parallel to the main frame. I'm going to try one with a slightly increased taper and let the checkering fade into nothingness And the chart update. DanK On Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 5:27:07 PM UTC-4 cdkr...@gmail.com wrote: Today I was motivated to checker an apple piece that I tapered in a typical handle fashion. So using the Taper Chart sheet from the now named "LegacyCharts_V10.4" I found that the upper limit to the REVO settings for taper is 3/8", i.e. the spindle rails won't go clear up to the main frame rails. So I altered the chart to give a warning about values that can't be used. And while I was versioning, I decided that the name should be adjusted to better reflect content. These are the settings I went with and was anxious about accuracy of the taper calcs. They're dead on! This is what it looks like to set up. Needs pretty precise measuring. My picture of the work got corrupted in transfer, so after supper. DanK -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/23786d97-bc7f-8970-9976-5b2802e936ce%40earthlink.net.
