Tube-Drawing, “No, I don’t mean CAD!”

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8 March 2023 at 01:59 #636628
Andre ROUSSEAU
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A little explored corner of engineering with much to teach….

https://youtu.be/8jN-a8nlBos

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Andre ROUSSEAU
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Musical Instrument-Maker’s Craft Skill.
8 March 2023 at 19:16 #636769
Bazyle
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Superb workshop.
One of the members of EDMES was a professional recorder maker and needed his engineering skills (having been a machinist) to make the unique tooling required for his craft.
8 March 2023 at 20:14 #636775
Jelly
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Posted by Bazyle on 08/03/2023 19:16:44:

Superb workshop.
One of the members of EDMES was a professional recorder maker and needed his engineering skills (having been a machinist) to make the unique tooling required for his craft.

That seems to be quite common with instrument makers, it's so specialised you just can't buy the tools.

A community organisation I have links to was bequeathed the contents of a woodwind instrument makers workshop which near enough doubled the size of their metalworking workshop, I think a lot of his specialist instrument making tools went to a college which still ran a diploma in instrument making, one of only a few in the country.

I also helped a lad out a few years ago with rebuilding a Union Graduate and a Walking Pattern-Makers's lathe into metal spinning lathes, the former for roughing in the shape of steel pans before hammer-forming, and the latter for making cymbals.

When he was done it was quite a sight to see him shaping 40" diameter custom cymbals, the sheer rotating mass of his wooden forms was enough to give me the heebie-jeebies.
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