spirals flutes braids are easy
 

interesting machine

http://bellingham.craigslist.org/tls/5567174665.html


hard to justify buying one of these but would be great if you made
custom staircases

good for ballisters and railings and furniture even

spirals flutes braids are easy
 

On 02/06/2016 11:32 AM, Electric Comet wrote:

interesting machine

http://bellingham.craigslist.org/tls/5567174665.html


hard to justify buying one of these but would be great if you made
custom staircases

good for ballisters and railings and furniture even



ISTR that Sears used to sell a smaller version of this type of jig.
Graham

spirals flutes braids are easy
 

On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 12:37:50 PM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:
interesting machine

http://bellingham.craigslist.org/tls/5567174665.html


hard to justify buying one of these but would be great if you made
custom staircases

good for ballisters and railings and furniture even

But were is the fun in that? ;-) Its much more "fun" to lay one out by hand, cut it with a sequence of saw, chisel, file and sandpaper - then find out you have the spiral going backwards. Of course I NEVER did that, right? Right !! :-)

spirals flutes braids are easy
 

On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 04:13:42 -0700 (PDT)
"Dr. Deb" wrote:

But were is the fun in that? ;-) Its much more "fun" to lay one out
by hand, cut it with a sequence of saw, chisel, file and sandpaper -
then find out you have the spiral going backwards. Of course I NEVER
did that, right? Right !! :-)

never have tried
just too much time involved

they are all done by cnc now

but i think a certain element is missing when something in wood shows
perfection

i enjoy imperfections in the craftmanship
it tells something where as the perfect cnc stuff does not

but i still find the these pre-cnc mechanical fluters interesting


in a link i sent around there was a chapter on spirals

spirals flutes braids are easy
 

On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 12:23:52 -0600
graham wrote:

ISTR that Sears used to sell a smaller version of this type of jig.

good repeatability with these things

could also make baseball bats which have a complex taper to them
but cnc is the name of the game with bats now

think lagunatools has a nice cnc video of a bat