A cheap strip sander
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:12 am
It's been a while since I've been on this forum - I used to frequent it back in the old days. Looking forward to poking around here.
I wanted to share something I thought might be of interest here. I am making a bowl back mandolin and another friend from Iran is going to make the Oud. We both were in need of a sander that could get the staves down to about 2 mm or less and as I'm sure everyone here is aware of, a thickness sander is quite expensive.
I came up with a jig to attach to my belt sander that does the job just fine. My friend liked it and wanted one so I made one for him. I used to take a lot of photographs of what I was working on but recently I started making videos instead. It's not exactly a howto video, but I'm sure that the clever people here will figure it out easily enough (and possibly make it better!)
Anyway, here it is. Enjoy,
Paul M
http://openwoodshop.com/invention/sander2.php
I wanted to share something I thought might be of interest here. I am making a bowl back mandolin and another friend from Iran is going to make the Oud. We both were in need of a sander that could get the staves down to about 2 mm or less and as I'm sure everyone here is aware of, a thickness sander is quite expensive.
I came up with a jig to attach to my belt sander that does the job just fine. My friend liked it and wanted one so I made one for him. I used to take a lot of photographs of what I was working on but recently I started making videos instead. It's not exactly a howto video, but I'm sure that the clever people here will figure it out easily enough (and possibly make it better!)
Anyway, here it is. Enjoy,
Paul M
http://openwoodshop.com/invention/sander2.php