Andy Culpepper -> RE: Mosaic rosette making (Mar. 18 2013 20:06:58)
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Aaaand part III: http://andyculpepperguitars.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/rosette-making-part-iii/ Norman, interesting, I didn't know you could run Windows on a Mac. I will check that out, thanks. Burdo, I like your jig. The contoured blade is a good idea. It's definitely a tricky operation no matter how you slice it [;)] My lutherie teacher was a huge jig/gadget guy and he actually had one of those cheap 1-inch belt sanders that he rigged up to be a very effective thickness sander. He cut off the disc sander part with the motor and mounted the other half of the machine on a stand with his own motor. There was an angled aluminum plate under the lower wheel of the belt, and you could raise and lower the plate with a little wheel which was marked off in thousandths of an inch. It was complete with a little metal hold-down, a vacuum attachment, and it was indeed accurate to the thousandth. The thing even had adjustable speeds because he used an old treadmill motor. So that worked pretty quickly for doing rosette sticks, and a multitude of other things. I'm not nearly mechanically inclined enough to make that kind of thing [:)]
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