This morning was spent entirely on taking my wife
to a prefectural museum in Hayama.
Nice beaches there, but not an ideal place to live.
Public transport is just too bad!
Anyway, what did I do this afternoon? I was actually
wondering if I could reproduce, with ease, my 190 mm
chopstics. So, intially, I decided to make two sets.
Shown bellow is the photo, before they are transformed.
At this stage of the game, they are very simple wood pieces,
the same width and the same cross section all the way down the length.
The outcome is shown bellow, with a small piece of wood
with an indentation, which serves as a maximum width jig.
The maximum width being 6.5 mm, fabricated using my
milling machine, to 0.2 mm accuracy.
The following illustration is showing you why I wanted to
ensure I can reproduce my 190 mm chopstics.
A and B are of the same size for presentational reasons,
but in reality B is at something like 8 mm at its maximum
width, and A? something like 12 mm.
A is for ordinary chopstics, and B for portable "MY
Chopstics". Whichever, the sanding process makes the
same depth scars on their surfaces, here, as shown
in red, in terms of their relative scar depths. These are
the scars left by my disc sander. These will have to be removed,
by my belt sander. You may see that I have to employ diferent
approcaches, with these deep scars on my portables...
So, today's session was all about that! You may ask
what my conclusion was. Difficult to say, really,
different, certainly.
Perhaps, I do not even know for sure what I am doing?
C? It is just the orientation of the workpiece on the
sanding belt, never at an angle like the blue, always like
the red nicely alligned to the stream.
Stream?, yes, the belt runs just like a stream!
Above? I am starting the process of mass-production. I will be
staying at our mountain cottage as soon as the rainy season is
over.
I want to have something substantial to do while there.
These will be pre-proccessed while here, and I will be
taking my belt sander alone, for my final sandings.
Above? Walnut is being sliced, using my line drawing jig.
I will be doing a lot more of this tommorrow!
to a prefectural museum in Hayama.
Nice beaches there, but not an ideal place to live.
Public transport is just too bad!
Anyway, what did I do this afternoon? I was actually
wondering if I could reproduce, with ease, my 190 mm
chopstics. So, intially, I decided to make two sets.
Shown bellow is the photo, before they are transformed.
At this stage of the game, they are very simple wood pieces,
the same width and the same cross section all the way down the length.
The outcome is shown bellow, with a small piece of wood
with an indentation, which serves as a maximum width jig.
The maximum width being 6.5 mm, fabricated using my
milling machine, to 0.2 mm accuracy.
The following illustration is showing you why I wanted to
ensure I can reproduce my 190 mm chopstics.
A and B are of the same size for presentational reasons,
but in reality B is at something like 8 mm at its maximum
width, and A? something like 12 mm.
A is for ordinary chopstics, and B for portable "MY
Chopstics". Whichever, the sanding process makes the
same depth scars on their surfaces, here, as shown
in red, in terms of their relative scar depths. These are
the scars left by my disc sander. These will have to be removed,
by my belt sander. You may see that I have to employ diferent
approcaches, with these deep scars on my portables...
So, today's session was all about that! You may ask
what my conclusion was. Difficult to say, really,
different, certainly.
Perhaps, I do not even know for sure what I am doing?
C? It is just the orientation of the workpiece on the
sanding belt, never at an angle like the blue, always like
the red nicely alligned to the stream.
Stream?, yes, the belt runs just like a stream!
Above? I am starting the process of mass-production. I will be
staying at our mountain cottage as soon as the rainy season is
over.
I want to have something substantial to do while there.
These will be pre-proccessed while here, and I will be
taking my belt sander alone, for my final sandings.
Above? Walnut is being sliced, using my line drawing jig.
I will be doing a lot more of this tommorrow!