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| piper1:
--- Quote from: Fergus OMore on November 17, 2013, 06:10:07 AM ---As you have called yourself 'Piper' and show a strangled octopus :lol: you should know what a chanter and drones looks like. So the question is how did they make them? Actually, it is simple enough if you forget these dreadful carbide inserts and think that there are other things which remove metal or wood. What carves nice shapes in pipes and a lot of other things is not fancy carbides or fancier exotics but plain and simple 'form tools' in carbon steel or better high speed stuff. I made me a left hand and right handed pair of form tools to do my chanter and drones in ten minutes. You don't need fancy stuff, you need form tools. Sorry but first things first. Cheers Norman --- End quote --- Thanks Norman, I would love to see a picture of the end product. |
| piper1:
--- Quote from: DaveH on November 17, 2013, 06:22:06 AM ---Kev, There are some on here - here's one http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,548.0.html :beer: DaveH --- End quote --- :thumbup: |
| DaveH:
And Bob did one http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,9158.msg100724.html#msg100724 :beer: DaveH |
| DaveH:
And if you wish to buy one http://www.serepton.co.uk/ :beer: DaveH |
| Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: piper1 on November 17, 2013, 06:23:45 AM --- I made me a left hand and right handed pair of form tools to do my chanter and drones in ten minutes. You don't need fancy stuff, you need form tools. Sorry but first things first. Cheers Norman --- End quote --- Thanks Norman, I would love to see a picture of the end product. [/quote] Heavens! I made the pipes scores of years ago. No one wanted the supply of African blackwood and Brazilian. rosewood( under the bed :bang:) so it went to a musical instrument repairer whose wife bought the bass saxophone. Maybe, we'll meet up- we've a date a bit North of you in April. In my opinion you should be getting a little tool and cutter grinder if you are unhappy about hand grinding form tools. Probably, I'd knock up a graver with a 1/8th bit( bit) of hss square and only sharpen one face. I recall that I was using a knocked about school lathe with a bit of steel rod as a rest in the tool post to steady things! It's not Fancy stuff. Pipes were made and bored with the shepherd's wife's steel knitting needles and ground on the sandstone wheel and honed on the kitchen window sill. It may be basic but that is how things CAN be done. I'll be in touch. Norman |
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