Kingwood and White PR

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Been playing with my toys again and this is what I came up with for today.

I believe the wood is called Kingwood :confused:and it's zig-zagged with some of my white PR. Each size changes width by 1.5mm.
I just used a slightly different ( improved ) method of cutting them more accurately.

I might make a His'n'Hers set with them.........one day:rolleyes:

The pics should show how they were made, but pretty much the same as I've shown before.:wink:
 

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Lovely ! Thanks for posting these pictures , Skip ... I am interested in your method so will try to figure it out.

What angle does the axis of the router bit make with the axis of the pen blank ? .. Maybe that's not the right way to ask the question but hopefully you will know what I mean. Also, at what angle do you set your compound cross-feed ?
 
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magpens said:
Lovely ! Thanks for posting these pictures , Skip ... I am interested in your method so will try to figure it out.

What angle does the axis of the router bit make with the axis of the pen blank ? .. Maybe that's not the right way to ask the question but hopefully you will know what I mean. Also, at what angle do you set your compound cross-feed ?
Click to expand...

Mal, the router is tilted to 45 deg. The corner of the bit is set on the center line. The compound does the cut at 15 deg.
The carriage is locked to the leadscrew from start to finish and rotating the leadscrew gives the spacing. My leadscrew has pitch of 3mm, so the numbers on the paper....and on the bench :rolleyes: refer to rotations of the leadscew.
I find it very easy to lose my sequence, so have to write it down and tick off each step....:redface:
The sequence on the paper is just for one blank.

The earlier made double ended zigzag bits in the first pic are simply cut in two.
When the uncut longer parts are put in the chuck and cut, they don't move till all the cuts are done. Have a look at the sequence on the paper....

First I chuck up the long piece....then index cut the six vees and glue the next part on......rotate the leadscrew x turns and repeat.

Looks a little complex but it's actually pretty basic really. :wink:

Thanks for all the comments. :biggrin:


Edit: The numbers on the bench are the spacings in millimetres and the ones on the paper are turns of the leadscrew. Multiples of 3mm
 
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Steve,

Thank you very much for explaining in that detail. I just measured the pitch of the leadscrew on my lathe and it is 1/16". I am surprised to find that ... I thought my lathe was totally metric, but I haven't read the manual for a long time !

Now I have to find a way to manually rotate the leadscrew and index that rotation.
I assume that's what you do.
 
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