Sanding Disk

[Acelectric]

After making a chess set this past weekend the wife and I needed a way to finish sanding the knights. Alan made a sanding disk while we were taking the class so copied I his design. I only had 1 small faceplate so I decided to make a faceplate to go with it.

Cutting the blank for the faceplate.

Mounting the blank onto my faceplate.

Truing the blank.

Facing it off.

Drilling an 11/16 hole through it.

I removed the blank from the lathe and ran a tap through the faceplate and into the blank. Using the factory made faceplate to make sure the threads were straight.​

Removed the faceplate and install the blank directly on the lathe. Turned the outside true and faced it off again.

Marked and cut a scrap piece of cypress for the plate.

Mounted the faceplate onto the plate. After the glue dried for a bit I turned the plate round and faced it off.

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Chamfered the back and removed some excess material.

The final result:

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I now have 2 sanding disks I can mount on the lathe. I can keep 2 different grits on them and change them out when needed. There are more pics in my gallery if you want to see more.

http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?cat=2732

 

[nn4jw]

Thanks for sharing. I saw in your gallery that you put CA in the threads. Was that for strength?

 

[Acelectric]

I figured a little CA in the threads wouldn't hurt. After it dried I ran the tap back through it again.

 

[Rick M]

Nice. Just this week I picked up 2 taps, a 1x12 & 3/4x16 to make sanding and face plates for my lathes.

 

[Bill Clemmons]

Nice job, Wayne. I love shop made jigs & fixtures.

 

[Mike Davis]

Looks like you learned a lot in two days. Looking forward to see what you do with it...

 

[CHESSSPY]

Great job! Good to see you in your workshop... I guess you had to shove Kaisla out of the way, eh?

 

[Acelectric]

Great job! Good to see you in your workshop... I guess you had to shove Kaisla out of the way, eh?

Somebody had to take the pictures, although she didn't seem too happy about it. She had all day today to play while I was at work.

 

[Rick M]

Wayne, where did you get that tool rest for your lathe?

 

[Elecyah]

Somebody had to take the pictures, although she didn't seem too happy about it. She had all day today to play while I was at work.

The biggest reason I wasn't too happy about it was that I wanted to be working on finishing my knights. Also, he had his radio-earmuffs on, so I didn't even have him to chat with while I took pictures. =P

But the discs work good. I just made a quick test run of making a knight from the scratch. Went digging in Wayne's scrap box till I found a piece of useless, knotty pine. Traced an outline and cut it out on the bandsaw (which was *really* what I was testing - had never cut out a shape on band saw before), and then shaped it further on the sanding disc. I can already think of a gazillion uses for this.

 

[Acelectric]

Wayne, where did you get that tool rest for your lathe?

I made it out of a 5/8 bolt and a piece of pipe I had laying around. I cut the threads off of the bolt and turned the head off of it. Then cut the pipe to length and welded it to the bolt.

 

[CHESSSPY]

In the recent class we didn't get to discuss my development of the sanding disc for carving at the lathe, nor how to clean it when it's dirty! Also a lot of people from the pen turners' organization as well as the one called lumber jocks have been on the site looking around. Given all this, I thought I had best consolidate the sanding disc info a bit.

So sanding disc info new & old is on the website now.

www.CHESSSPY.com

 

[Acelectric]

I hope you don't mind the extra traffic I created for you.

 

[CHESSSPY]

I hope you don't mind the extra traffic I created for you.

Not a bit! It just made me realize (and not for the first time) that I need to "connect the dots" on our website periodically.

Cheers,

Alan