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Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Fergus OMore:
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Rob
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But Rob,
If you were to make the short journey into Morpeth, you would find far more complicated turning on much the same sort of crude machinery.
It's while since I was in the Chantry but there is a bewildering collection of bagpipes many of them made on bodgers lathes.
It was a collection that I saw as a small boy in the War and amongst even more bewildering things in a tiny little village on the banks of the Tyne. Here, the old shepherds made their instruments using not much more than a Picador lathe and bored out 18" holes with their wife's knitting needles.
But back to the video and a note that I still have billets like this old bodger-- tucked under the spare bed. They may be African Blackwood and Brazillian rosewood but they are essentially not much different.
Perhaps others missed the 'How it is made' programme on making a trombone.
I'll leave it at that
Regards
loply:
I've been to Marrakech and bought a box from a guy in a shop similar to this, he then promptly produced his bow and turned up a little chess piece for me, he popped it on a bit of string as some kind of necklace souvenir and gave it to me.
Took him about 20 seconds and looks like it's been CNC'ed!
Having said that I suspect the rest of his produce was actually imported from China or India and that making stuff with the bow was a gimmick, unfortunately.
AndyB:
Bloody hell! :bugeye:
Actually, I learned a whole lot about woodturning by watching that...it gave me some ideas about metal too! :) :)
Thank you
Andy
Ned Ludd:
Hi Don,
Well, I guess he does not need to bother with HS part of HSS, when making his lathe tools. :)
Ned
Rickard:
OK YOU'LL Never hear me Wine about my :worthless: and Dull tooling again! but you got to hand it to the Raj after all those years of British Exploitation Rule, that have become an Inenius Lot. I mean guiding a cutting tool with your toes, Genius, Reckless, But genius
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