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Hand Cranked Organ winter project
Powder Keg:
Thanks for the prodding people :poke: I need it sometimes. When we left We were making the whistles.
Back to the whistles. My wife sanded down the parts so they are all a nice fit. Today we are going to mark the back of the lips and mill them so air can escape and make the whistling noise. The plans showed a piece of card stock glued between the lip and the whistle body. This seemed like a really cheesy way to make these to me?
Pictures soon\o/
Powder Keg:
I forgot to add. When we were at Birks, He gave me a piece of leather and the patterns he used to cut his out. So there's no excuses now right?
I'll post pictures of that also :ddb:
Wes :wave:
Powder Keg:
This morning we marked the bottom piece where the air will escape from the whistle.
I set up the mill and showed my wife a couple things then she milled the rest of them.
She did a great job on all of them.
Here is what we were after. A nice clean thin slit for the air to escape.
The plans originally had a piece of card stock cut from a cereal box cut to this shape and sandwiched between this piece and the whistle to create this slit. I thought that was kind of a cheesy way to make them.
Next I'll start cutting out some of the larger pieces.
Wes :wave:
saw:
This was an very intressting project that you have started, and you have your'e wife with you. Greate. :clap: :clap: :clap: :thumbup:
Powder Keg:
The plans are kind of poor. There are some missing dimensions and some wrong dimensions. I've been searching the internet trying to find builds where people have mentioned these errors. Hopefully I have found them all. Mainly it seems like the overall width is off sometimes. There is one area that seems to be about 3/16" short and another that is around 3/8" short. The only trouble is that I can't really tell till I start assembling things. There Is also a website that has tips and tricks to make your Busker organ better. I went through that and have come up with a few things that I am going to do to mine.
Today I'm going to start on what is called the pressure box. It will be where the air from the bellows travels to before it goes out to the whistles. It has the Plexiglas window in the video. The sides of the cabinet fasten to this.
Stay tuned....
:wave:
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