Conchita, today I made a staggering discovery and had one
complete surprise. I am most pleased about them.
First for today is the ones I completed and they were
immediately coated. They are lunch box chopstics, but
there are kitchen utility ones out of sight.
Today's surprise is seen below. I had been forgeting about
these shorter Chinese spoons. They simply emerged when I was
looking for something else. There were 21 of them and what you
are looking at is not all that there are. About 10 of them have
been made into coating ready status. I am very pleased about this.
They are in great demand at shops I am dealing with.
However, today's discovery is really about my renewed attempt
at the two tier pasta forks. I made a mess out of it, as you
might just about be able to see below.
In trying to get some decent shape out of the grooved
fork I effectively destroyed it, around the peripheral.
However, that is not important at all.
Actually, today's discovery may be two-fold, if you
come to think about it.
It is like this. If you want a two tier-fork you must
start out from fairly thick material and I am talking about
the side profile.
Today's was just feeling around for hints and I just
cut out the side profile with my bandsaw, without
thinking too much about it.
It was an instinctive action, as the material was thick
enough to warrant bandsaw cutting. Normally, I use my
disk sander to get a rough side profile.
That is all after the top profile has been cut out
by the same bandsaw. Spoons are made that way, so are
all others with similar profiles.
Not only just that, I also cut out the top profile!
This was made possible because the area I was going to
use my milling machine for still retained enough paralell
reference surfaces for had griping on the vise. How
just amazing this was! It makes my life all too easy!
All that is not the end of the story for today. My discovery
might even be three-fold, as you see with above schematic.
In order to create a space between two tiers you want to cut
along the line in red. Now, with non-computerised milling
machine this is extremely difficult.
It involves controling both X and Y directions simultaneously.
Therefore, a temptation is there for going jigsaw. The biggest
problem is the thickness that needs to be cut.
However, if you make grooves in advance as you see with B,
jigsaw cutting becomes a lot easier. All this is just procedural
matter, but I was very pleased about this mini discovery.
I should have known that, of course...
Incidentally, the damaged fork has 6 groovesm and that is
crazy, because it means that there are 8 pincers! You do not need
as many as 8 of them!
My earlier conclusion was that I only needed 5 and that will make
my life a lot easier, too!
The actual damaged fork is just twoo wide! It should be less
in width and that will be a bonus! My jigswa cutting will be
a lot faster, even without groove making, I think.
However, more than just that my current intention is to
make the whole profile a lot slimmer.
Can you see what I am getting at from A and B above?
Just take a look at today's experimental piece.
That, to my mind, is too much bulky and material can be
slimmed down in the areas pointed at by the arrows.
complete surprise. I am most pleased about them.
First for today is the ones I completed and they were
immediately coated. They are lunch box chopstics, but
there are kitchen utility ones out of sight.
Today's surprise is seen below. I had been forgeting about
these shorter Chinese spoons. They simply emerged when I was
looking for something else. There were 21 of them and what you
are looking at is not all that there are. About 10 of them have
been made into coating ready status. I am very pleased about this.
They are in great demand at shops I am dealing with.
However, today's discovery is really about my renewed attempt
at the two tier pasta forks. I made a mess out of it, as you
might just about be able to see below.
In trying to get some decent shape out of the grooved
fork I effectively destroyed it, around the peripheral.
However, that is not important at all.
Actually, today's discovery may be two-fold, if you
come to think about it.
It is like this. If you want a two tier-fork you must
start out from fairly thick material and I am talking about
the side profile.
Today's was just feeling around for hints and I just
cut out the side profile with my bandsaw, without
thinking too much about it.
It was an instinctive action, as the material was thick
enough to warrant bandsaw cutting. Normally, I use my
disk sander to get a rough side profile.
That is all after the top profile has been cut out
by the same bandsaw. Spoons are made that way, so are
all others with similar profiles.
Not only just that, I also cut out the top profile!
This was made possible because the area I was going to
use my milling machine for still retained enough paralell
reference surfaces for had griping on the vise. How
just amazing this was! It makes my life all too easy!
All that is not the end of the story for today. My discovery
might even be three-fold, as you see with above schematic.
In order to create a space between two tiers you want to cut
along the line in red. Now, with non-computerised milling
machine this is extremely difficult.
It involves controling both X and Y directions simultaneously.
Therefore, a temptation is there for going jigsaw. The biggest
problem is the thickness that needs to be cut.
However, if you make grooves in advance as you see with B,
jigsaw cutting becomes a lot easier. All this is just procedural
matter, but I was very pleased about this mini discovery.
I should have known that, of course...
Incidentally, the damaged fork has 6 groovesm and that is
crazy, because it means that there are 8 pincers! You do not need
as many as 8 of them!
My earlier conclusion was that I only needed 5 and that will make
my life a lot easier, too!
The actual damaged fork is just twoo wide! It should be less
in width and that will be a bonus! My jigswa cutting will be
a lot faster, even without groove making, I think.
However, more than just that my current intention is to
make the whole profile a lot slimmer.
Can you see what I am getting at from A and B above?
Just take a look at today's experimental piece.
That, to my mind, is too much bulky and material can be
slimmed down in the areas pointed at by the arrows.
