Hi Bob I have been using a dremmel freehand for the slots if your hand is
steady enough when equiped with a 1" (25mm) grinding wheel from the model shop
it proves very successful- line the slots and glue them in. I made a press for
the slot liners with a two tonne press from Axminster you will h
Hi Malcolm,
I make my drills from silver steel. There is a cad program
called allycad which offers a free for home use program capable of reading
Mike Nelsons drawings. Its a pity that a few details are missing from Mikes
otherwise brilliant site. He mentions a modifed slot drill f
Hello Bob,
The danger in any instrument making is always paying too much attention to the
tooling at the expense of the making. It can lead to this familiar syndrome
(well, familiar to me at least!):
http://ahistoricality.blogspot.com/2005/08/thursday-verses-old-sailor.html
I know someone who
Dear Bob; I too am an ammateur maker although if you manage to flog a set which
I have in the past then I suppose it makes me a semi pro maker. You seem to
have been more successful that I have in gaining a response to a request for
information as past blogs indicate from the sublime to the ridi
Thank you for your replies.
Francis:
I had considered your method making some kind of hardwood vice
from something incredibly hard like bubinga and mounting it like a
toolpost on the crosslide. Is your jig along those lines or something
more grand in metal.?
Ric
Francis Wood wrote:
Bob,
I mount the chanter in a jig mounted on the cross slide and mill out the slots
with a milling bit held in the lathe chuck. That works fine. More recently,
I've bought a small milling machine and intend to do the same operation with
that.
I'd guess that your proposed
Bob,
I mount the chanter in a jig mounted on the cross slide and mill out the slots
with a milling bit held in the lathe chuck. That works fine. More recently,
I've bought a small milling machine and intend to do the same operation with
that.
I'd guess that your proposed method of using a flex
Philip Gruar wrote;
Colin Ross, in particular, was always completely free and open with all
help and advice, and very generous with his time. At one time he also
used to teach an evening class in pipemaking.
Helo Philip
I thought about this myself when Barry asked about the NPS
Hi everyone,
Im Bob, an amateur pipemaker from Scotland. I wondered if I
was allowed to ask pipemaking questions on this list? I first tried to
make nsp about twenty years ago. The drones and reeds came out ok But I
have never managed to successfully make a chanter as cutti
Interesting, Bob. On the contrary, I've always found that Northumbrian
pipemakers (well, the ones I talked to anyway - I can maybe think of a
couple of exceptions!) were very open with information. I have always said
that this is in stark contrast to the old secretive and macho competitive
trad
Hello Bob,
I think you should ask plenty of questions here. A lot of help is available and
such questions and answers help to keep this list a good place!
Francis
On 30 Jan 2010, at 17:05, Bob Salter wrote:
> I have been an amateur pipemaker for most of my adult life(quite a long
> time no
I have been an amateur pipemaker for most of my adult life(quite a long
time now). My problem has always, without exception, been lack of good
information. Pipemakers are, a LITTLE understandably, a secretive
bunch. I started out with the cocks and bryan book and the wilbert
garvin b
This thread, "borrowing long drills" was started on the Pipers' Society
discussion group by Barry Say, who asked if anyone remembered the Society
having long drills to lend out.
There were a couple of interesting replies about the tradition of amateur
pipe-making, and I wrote one about making dr
Been there ,done that.
Colin R
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From: Richard York
To: Dartmouth nsp list N.P.S. site
Sent: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 9:35
Subject: [NSP] Re: Mr. Bewick, Rats and Inverted Bags
Wow!
And quite apart from an illustration of an interesting bag position,
(which is where we cam
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