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Title: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: SPiN Racing on November 02, 2011, 12:08:16 PM

Whenever you think your equipment is not up to snuff.. (I have felt that way at times) here ye go...


http://www.wimp.com/chesspieces/ (http://www.wimp.com/chesspieces/)

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: Rob.Wilson on November 02, 2011, 12:49:03 PM

 :bugeye:

Rob

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: -steves- on November 02, 2011, 12:49:14 PM

Kinda makes you wonder don't it  :)

Awesome video...........

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: Fredbare on November 02, 2011, 12:53:46 PM

I've got no excuse now, next time there's a power cut.  :bang:

Thanks

John

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: dsquire on November 02, 2011, 01:56:33 PM

Spin

Thanks for posting that link. It is amazing what can be done with such minimal equipment. I would bet that gentleman could teach us all a thing or two about sharpening tools.  :D :D

Cheers  :beer:

Don

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: doubleboost on November 02, 2011, 05:08:25 PM

He has more skill in his foot than most people have in there hands   :bugeye: :bugeye: :bugeye:
John

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: saw on November 02, 2011, 05:20:20 PM

I will never complayn to my tathe anymore  :Doh:

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: Brass_Machine on November 03, 2011, 12:34:24 AM

Wow... that is just too cool. That guy has some skills. Amazing.

Eric

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: Stilldrillin on November 03, 2011, 03:12:31 AM

That is real old fashioned skill/ artistry.  :bugeye:

Wonder what he could produce, with some of our workshop equipment.......  :D

David D

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: Anzaniste on November 03, 2011, 04:05:41 AM

Wow! Must trim my toenails! :dremel:

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: Fergus OMore on November 03, 2011, 04:52:17 AM

Quote from: Rob.Wilson on November 02, 2011, 12:49:03 PM

:bugeye:

Rob

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

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: loply on November 03, 2011, 03:31:21 PM

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.

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: AndyB on November 17, 2011, 04:17:11 PM

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

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: Ned Ludd on November 18, 2011, 08:19:13 AM

Hi Don,
Well, I guess he does not need to bother with HS part of HSS, when making his lathe tools. :)
Ned

Title: Re: Incredibly precise high tech lathe making chess pieces!
Post by: Rickard on May 01, 2012, 12:50:26 PM

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