Thursday, January 15, 2009

More bender stuff


I spent some of my time in Tucson (and yes, I'm back now) making some more bending forms with the help of my pal Erik (who has the super-dope woodshop). I had to do the last bit (cutting the proper size/radius grooves) on the mill, though, and that's one of the things I managed to get done today.

Getting back into the swing of things over the next few days. I'm mostly caught up on email and should be shipping out a whole load of crap tomorrow or Monday as well. Feel free to email or call if you need to talk to me.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

hey quit blogging and get to work on my fork!!

j/k

Walt said...

Sheesh! One day back from vacation and I'm getting hassled...

Seriously, I'm working. A lot. It will get done.

Anonymous said...

I hope you didn't work too hard today and got out to ride. It was fantabulous.

Walt said...

Actually, Eszter, I have food poisoning right now...guh.

Enjoy WP this weekend - I sent a few brews with RC (Chris gets first dibs).

Anonymous said...

Mounting the wood mandral on the rotary table like that is super clever. Nice mandrals!

-Joel

js said...

Professa', those curves look much cleaner. What is that, solid Pawlah'?

Walt said...

Schweidy - if you mean poplar, then yes, it's poplar.

Erik runs the architecture dept. machine and wood shop at U of A, so he helped me take a rough block, plane it down to a nice even rectangle, and use the bandsaw to cut those pretty curves. Then I just hit it with the ball-end mills on the rotary table here at home.