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[Old Navy]

You can always play along with the Sunny Scroller’s group. The assignment for the month is Plate. Go to Steve Good’s sight. Enter Plate into the search bar and pick something. Everything from switch plate covers, small, decorative, catch all dishes and wall decorations.

Sunny Scroller’s group... That sounds like a plan, seeing the topic was brought up. In a normal session ( what ever that is ) how much saw dust is generated, Not using a Vacuum Cleaner,( I have a Vac) To get around the cold I was thinking putting my scroll saw in my office,(No wife to scream at me) wanting to do some Bowl in Board cutting an use the plans from Carole Rothman book.. make up a half dozen or so plans. Then when the warm weather and blah blues are gone I can return to work in the unheated shop an glue up and sand. Any one using their scroll saw indoors in a spare room.. ??

 

[Old Navy]

More progress on the xylophone case:

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Cutting dovetails on those angles was a trick but I got it done. I also got to use a ton of clamps, including some spool clamps I made for the occasion:

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Up next is case hardware.

Like those clamps !!! The round... 2it... clamps

 

[Jvsquare]

Like those clamps !!! The round... 2it... clamps

Those are spool clamps, used by luthiers to clamp the tops of guitars and such. Or, I should say, they're the hardware store special budget versions. Effective enough for my purposes.

 

[Old Navy]

Those are spool clamps, used by luthiers to clamp the tops of guitars and such. Or, I should say, they're the hardware store special budget versions. Effective enough for my purposes.

They like a round donut... are they or something special I can't see ?

 

[Jvsquare]

They like a round donut... are they or something special I can't see ?

Here’s an exploded view. They’re just a carriage bolt through two large dowel segments with a washer and wing nut on the end. The dowels have cork on them to protect the wood. I freehand drilled the holes through the dowels after marking the center. If I were to do it again I’d set up a jig in a drill press or cut circular chunks out of a piece of wood with a hole saw. It was too hard to get the holes centered and straight.

 

[Old Navy]

Here’s an exploded view. They’re just a carriage bolt through two large dowel segments with a washer and wing nut on the end. The dowels have cork on them to protect the wood. I freehand drilled the holes through the dowels after marking the center. If I were to do it again I’d set up a jig in a drill press or cut circular chunks out of a piece of wood with a hole saw. It was too hard to get the holes centered and straight.
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I am always looking for new ideas, this clamp is great. You can scale up or down depending what your usage is. Next time use a hole saw, the pilot hole will be centered. In stead of dowels, use plywood.. an hole saw.. size needed. I make floor levelers with a 3.5 inch hole saw.. an counter sink the thickness for a 3-4 prong blind nut 3/8-16.. Then threaded onto 3/4-16 all thread rod / carriage bolt. Not lifting much more than 1/4 inch. An with a carriage bolt the head will spin free on concrete an the square shoulder allows for a wrench to turn it..

 

[Berta]

Sunny Scroller’s group... That sounds like a plan, seeing the topic was brought up. In a normal session ( what ever that is ) how much saw dust is generated, Not using a Vacuum Cleaner,( I have a Vac) To get around the cold I was thinking putting my scroll saw in my office,(No wife to scream at me) wanting to do some Bowl in Board cutting an use the plans from Carole Rothman book.. make up a half dozen or so plans. Then when the warm weather and blah blues are gone I can return to work in the unheated shop a glue up and sand. Any one using their scroll saw indoors in a spare room.. ??

I added a Scrollnado to my scroll saw. It does work well. You have to pay attention to where the hoses are. I attached my top hose to my blower so I can make adjustments easily. The blower is no longer used. I did take out the carpet and put my saw in the spare room.

 

[Old Navy]

Scrollnado ??? Just Googled this widget, did not get a direct answer... Please what is it, some sort of vac

 

[Berta]

Scrollnado ??? Just Googled this widget, did not get a direct answer... Please what is it, some sort of vac

It is a separator hooked to two 1/4” hoses hooked to a vacuum. I used a heavy rubber band to fasten the top hose to the air blower.
You do have to fiddle with it pretty often.

I need to adjust the bottom hose and sweep.
In my defense, I did just complete 6 music boxes.


Steve Good has some YouTube videos on the subject.

 

[Old Navy]

It is a separator hooked to two 1/4” hoses hooked to a vacuum. I used a heavy rubber band to fasten the top hose to the air blower.
You do have to fiddle with it pretty often.

I need to adjust the bottom hose and sweep.
In my defense, I did just complete 6 music boxes.


Steve Good has some YouTube videos on the subject.

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Thanks for the photo's... I will have to see if I can find it..

 

[1075tech]

Last one. Had to move some electric before I could set the shelf unit

 

[Jvsquare]

The xylophone case is done, and finished:

The accidentals (black notes on a piano) are held in place with that piece of cherry so they don't fall out when you open the lid. They're on a separate frame rather than screwed into the case so you can lift them up onto blocks inside the lid and give them some height, like this:

So now I have xylophone, can travel.

 

[Old Navy]

What wood is used for the bars ? am how are they mounted ? Beautiful

 

[Jvsquare]

What wood is used for the bars ? am how are they mounted ? Beautiful

Thank you! I didn’t make the bars — I think they’re Honduras rosewood, at least according to the J.C. Deagan (the maker) reference page. They’re suspended on a cord that runs through them. The cord also runs through grommets inserted into screw eyes. A couple of springs keep everything tight.

 

[Old Navy]

Thanks. Always fascinated by the xylophone. Never know the species of wood used or how they attached them to something.. The spring in foreground is that how you tune the xylophone ? What wood was used on the case you made.. Nice job

 

[bainin]

I had to come up with a goniometer stage to quickly make some light measurements for a commercial troffer (which I'm also helping on ) .
My old colleagues would be beside themselves at the lack of precision on this thing...but with a digital inclonometer..small errors in the fixture...mean little
as long as I can record an actual angle and the dang thing rotates along 1 axis.

Fixture produced a near lambertian light output (blue vs black curve) which was expected for the troffer...so I'm happy.

 

[JRedding]

I had to come up with a goniometer stage to quickly make some light measurements for a commercial troffer (which I'm also helping on ) .
My old colleagues would be beside themselves at the lack of precision on this thing...but with a digital inclonometer..small errors in the fixture...mean little
as long as I can record an actual angle and the dang thing rotates along 1 axis.

Fixture produced a near lambertian light output (blue vs black curve) which was expected for the troffer...so I'm happy.

I can’t recall having to look up that many words while reading a woodworking post!

 

[bainin]

I can’t recall having to look up that many words while reading a woodworking post!

sorry

 

[Geezermag]

I had to come up with a goniometer stage to quickly make some light measurements for a commercial troffer (which I'm also helping on ) .
My old colleagues would be beside themselves at the lack of precision on this thing...but with a digital inclonometer..small errors in the fixture...mean little
as long as I can record an actual angle and the dang thing rotates along 1 axis.

Fixture produced a near lambertian light output (blue vs black curve) which was expected for the troffer...so I'm happy.

This is wicked cool! I used to run a goniometer in grad school and never expected to encounter one on here lol.

 

[Old Navy]

Just a suggestion... I been fooling around doing calculation on Google AI.. the tab at the end of the search block comes up with some unique information, I has asked a question that was about 8-9 lines long. That's took less than 15 seconds of pondering. I find it very useful on angles