As I mentioned earlier I started making my spoons just recently after a lapse of nearly 2 years. I had not forgotten how. Basic approach cannot possibly change that much.
However, there has already been a new policy decision, not to cut out the lateral profiles with the band saw for safety reasons. That is one thing. And, this is all because I am having to look at the same procedures and same tools from slightly different angles.
Today, I was very pleased to find a new method for cleaning the inner surface of a spoon. It is merely a different combination of the driving tool and the end bits to go with it.
Here, it is.
I used this bullet shaped abrasive bit with this driving tool. (This picture is actually showing the tool with a cylindrical bit for a different job.) Normally, I use another driving tool with this bullet shaped bit, but today I just tried this new combination. That was a revelation.
Up until today, I have been using another driving tool with an external speed controller. However, it fails to provide constant torque. That is a blow in itself. But, it also fails to provide constant angular speed.
Where it would have taken to do the same job in one hour this new combination allowed me to finish the same job in just 15 minutes or so. Simply because its rotational force is constant at a constant speed. And, this new combination is universally applicable to all other spoon making jobs.
As a result I have happily completed my cleaning job with these 15 spoons.
Only another 5 to go before coating of these spoons can begin.
In the meantime hashi coating is going steadily as you see below.
and, even curry spoons are being coated again and again, as per below.
However, there has already been a new policy decision, not to cut out the lateral profiles with the band saw for safety reasons. That is one thing. And, this is all because I am having to look at the same procedures and same tools from slightly different angles.
Today, I was very pleased to find a new method for cleaning the inner surface of a spoon. It is merely a different combination of the driving tool and the end bits to go with it.
Here, it is.
I used this bullet shaped abrasive bit with this driving tool. (This picture is actually showing the tool with a cylindrical bit for a different job.) Normally, I use another driving tool with this bullet shaped bit, but today I just tried this new combination. That was a revelation.
Up until today, I have been using another driving tool with an external speed controller. However, it fails to provide constant torque. That is a blow in itself. But, it also fails to provide constant angular speed.
Where it would have taken to do the same job in one hour this new combination allowed me to finish the same job in just 15 minutes or so. Simply because its rotational force is constant at a constant speed. And, this new combination is universally applicable to all other spoon making jobs.
As a result I have happily completed my cleaning job with these 15 spoons.
Only another 5 to go before coating of these spoons can begin.
In the meantime hashi coating is going steadily as you see below.
and, even curry spoons are being coated again and again, as per below.