For you guys who do your own tapered lams I would like to see some pics of your sleds. I have a new Grizzly Drum sander and want to get set up to do tapers.
Me too.... :)
Anybody?
I can probably post a picture but it would be hard to see the taper. My sleds are 40" long and are machined out of aircraft aluminum that is approx. 5/8" thick.
I have a 8"X40" board with my taper sanded in. I took an old sanding belt and glued/stapled it to the board. I just lay my lams ontop of the sanding belt and it holds fine. I do not have any pics though.
Ric,
How do you hold your lam to the aluminum, with double sided tape?
Thanks Vince
Vince, I just contact cement some 80 or 100 grit sandpaper to the sled, making sure that it is laying flat the whole length. I only spray the cement on the back of the paper, which allows easy removal from the sled when the paper needs replacing. I forgot to mention that my sleds are 5" wide which allows me to grind 2 lams at once.
Thanks Rick!
That's a good idea to grind two at a time, did you have a machine shop build your sled, if so what did they charge you for that.
I want to try grinding my own lams as soon as I get one of these elk to co-operate with me, it's like there is an invisible fence at 30 yards! Can't quite get em close enough.
Vince
there was an article in TB about making lams this year, and he went into how he made his fixtures
Tim, do you remember what month that article was? I looked through old copies and couldn't find it? warden415
the only one i know of is the spring 2006 bowyer journal by jack harrison , preparing and grinding laminations hope this helps
thanks , harold
Does anyone have a copy of the spring 2006 bowters journal article on grinding lams by Jack harrison? I would like to see this. I only started getting the magazine last summer.
Hey guys check out varcher.com i think thats it hes also a tradg member aswell he has a nice one he built plus he came up with a little jig he made for prechecking tiller of lamb to nice guy to twisted
I made these grinders to taper my lams. The first one is for lengths up to ~35", the one with the belt sander for lengths up to ~70".
After that I can check the pre-tiller using my tiller stick with a detachable extra jig on top of it.
V-Archer :archer:
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This one is for short lams.
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This one is for longer lams.
Pre-tiller jig to check the tiller
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Here is one I showed a year and a half ago.
Could be some new people since then. Bue--.
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=029495
st (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b242/hdc123/DSCN0867.jpg)ic, here is one i made to use with the grizzy
Yep I had a alum. one made also. Mine is just the plate with no legs. Works really good so far.