This bridge did Not want to come apart for cleaning, requiring me to fabricate a special size punch on my lathe with flat ends and building a wood bracket to hold the bridge, while letting my press push out the bridge pins.

Oh suuuuuuuure, David. You just haaaaaaad to make a tool on your lathe.

Sometimes years of gunk and sweat makes some nasty compounds that can really bind things up. I'm just kidding!

Love it!

I understand the joy of fabricating specialty items (and then having them function as planned!).

Paul (who's pretty sure Mica understands it also  )

OK, you are right...!

The question is, do you save these one-off tools you make?   I know I do.  Little art projects.

 


They really are art.  Machining, grinding, shaping, etc.  all part of a creative process = art!

For about a year,  was working for a grant-funded program to properly archive the holdings of area museums & historical societies; at one I got to chatting with the Society Pres about my old house & what I was doing to restore it.
So of course, he pulls out pix of his old house, and told about how few of the (many,many) original balusters had been missing, and how he had to turn matching ones in his full wood shop.  Which, of course, required him to make custom turning knives in his full metal shop.........
Yeah, I shut up then.


Peter

I recently (last year) made a tool to cut wood around a truss rod that had broken off at the threads; my co-workers did not believe that such a thing existed or that I had made one before, but I showed them and it worked...still don't know where my first one is though, probably find it soon when I move...after 21 years; yeah, not a fun idea....

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on October 31, 2020, 11:41:51 AM
d told about how few of the (many,many) original balusters had been missing,

Peter

That should, of course, be "present", not "missing".


Peter