This is the 3rd winter of my rod building hobby, this winter I'm attempting fade decorative wraps and thought I'd customize the carriage for my power wrapper. I purchased a crb hand wrapper and modified it to accept 6 spools of thread, my idea is that instead of constantly moving the rod supports for the stock carriage as I move down the rod, I just move the whole wrapper platform over around the
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I have a power wrapper as well as a lathe, a good lathe with variable speed makes making handles so much easier, doesn't wear out the wrapper, and keeps all the dust away from your wrapper. Bought a Rikon 70-220VSR last year and really like it, hadn't used a wood lathe since high school some 50 yrs. ago. A good chuck and the accessories already mentioned as well as a sharpening system for your
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Thanks, think I will experiment with 5/8" and 7/8".
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I'm going to attempt some cored wood grips this winter and being Canadian don't have easy access to that volume, what size bit would you bore with for a handle min size 1", I was thinking 5/8" but you seem to be indicating larger? I will be using a lathe.
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Oops I meant to say that I still wanted the motor on my left due to the configuration of my room and it wouldn't work.
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It has been a while since I tried it but as I recall, I wanted the motor on the right end too, but since the extrusion isn't symmetrical the motor is offset and will not line up with the rod supports.
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Reversing the wrapper bed was an idea I had last winter, after taking everything apart I found that the extrusion for the motor mount unfortunately was not bisymmetrical and could not be mounted in the reverse position, so unless you're up to doing a major modification it won't work, good idea though.
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Will these be available to Canadians?
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You could but it would require a little more advanced skill to isolate your bitmap without a background, easier way to do it is design an object that represents the part ie the grips with the same color and shape.
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First post here for me, wish to thank all for the great info, started making a few rods this winter. I'm in the sign business and it seemed a natural for me to first design the rods I am making on the computer, all you need is a vector based graphics program like Corel (likely can pick up an early version cheap) and a little practice, you could design certain elements that you will be using frequ
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