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Thickness Sander I built from a reciprocating drum sander

I needed this tool to get ebony fretboards profiled to exact size..
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Permalink Reply by Pierre-Antoine Roiron on October 4, 2011 at 4:25am
Nice! Is that hard to feed the fingerboard?
Permalink Reply by Kerry Krishna on October 4, 2011 at 4:58am
Ebony is quite hard to do this with. So I can only use small .004 increases in sanding, I have to turn the wood over ( so the top becomes the bottom of the board to even it out),  and I  HAVE to keep the wood moving at the same speed, and not slow down or stop, because it will result in a trough..
Permalink Reply by Pierre-Antoine Roiron on October 4, 2011 at 5:39am

Thanks for your answer.

Maybe some kind of device applying pressure just in front of the drum would help?

Permalink Reply by Ned Knepp on October 4, 2011 at 4:19pm
And behind on the catch side too just to keep the material as stable as possible while it's in the drum.
Permalink Reply by Kerry Krishna on October 4, 2011 at 4:54pm

 Ned that is a great idea. I actually may move the whole adjustment knob so that the bolt is applying pressure higher up and directly behind the drum. Is that what you had in mind?

 

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