Just scheming...
What machines do you bowyers use to make fade-outs on risers?
Thanks,
Ben
How do you make fade-outs?
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Benny Nganabbarru
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How do you make fade-outs?
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looseplucker
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Re: How do you make fade-outs?
I use a grinding drum on my drill press with 40 grit on for the first bits and 120grit for the finish.
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Gringa Bows
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Re: How do you make fade-outs?
a bandsaw to cut the shape i want ,and a belt sanderi was doing on a drum sander connected to a drill press like L.P both ways do the job well,have you built your shed yet Ben 
..................Rod
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Re: How do you make fade-outs?
Bandsaw and rubber wheel end of lamination grinder.
The photo shows a client cleaning up the fadeouts after the bandsaw. Final touch up with a round ended sanding stick.
Daryl.
The photo shows a client cleaning up the fadeouts after the bandsaw. Final touch up with a round ended sanding stick.
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For a good bow twice paid for, is better than an ill bow once broken. [Ascham]
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” [Einstein]
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looseplucker
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Re: How do you make fade-outs?
Otis - I do use a bandsaw too - but if feeling all virtuous I will use the rasp. And you are right with the scraper - I have found them invaluable for cleaning up any bumps or inconsitencies......mind you, my drill press chuck is a wedge fit - great for vertical work - up and down drilling - but any lateral stuff and they can and do drop out. Scared the living proverbial out of me when it first happened.... 
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Benny Nganabbarru
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Re: How do you make fade-outs?
Thank you, gents.
It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,
It's the forests where silence has lease;
It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It's the stillness that fills me with peace.
It's the forests where silence has lease;
It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It's the stillness that fills me with peace.
Re: How do you make fade-outs?
Hi Otis,
Daryl.
When you have finished with the scraper do you roughen up the surface to improve the glue bond?otis.drum wrote:hand saw, file and scaper
Daryl.
"And you must not stick for a groat or twelvepence more than another man would give, if it be a good bow.
For a good bow twice paid for, is better than an ill bow once broken. [Ascham]
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” [Einstein]
I am old enough to make my own decisions....Just not young enough to remember what I decided!....
For a good bow twice paid for, is better than an ill bow once broken. [Ascham]
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” [Einstein]
I am old enough to make my own decisions....Just not young enough to remember what I decided!....
Re: How do you make fade-outs?
yes i use the scaper to get it flat after the file. i should have put sand paper in the list i suppose 
...otis...