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So as my actual pedal building has slowed significantly I've been putting my limited build time towards other things - namely working on trying to design and figure out the best way to build an enclosure out of folded sheet metal.
In doing all of this I had been picking my cousin's brain on a lot of things. He's a professional machinist and has been a lot of help in getting a better understanding of the tools and processes involved in all of this as well as help with layout basics. He's also a musician and plays guitar and bass in various bands and I've made him a number of pedals over the years.
A few weeks ago he let me know that he had a mini-lathe that he wanted to give me. He lives in Tucson, AZ but was coming to So. Cal over fathers day weekend and could drop it off. Awesome!
He left it at my dad's place which is about an hour away from me and then my dad brought it to me last night (he works a couple of miles from my house so it worked out pretty well).
I need to get a bench for it to sit on as well as a bench grinder and then I can begin learning to use it. I haven't used a lathe since high school shop class, and that was a wood lathe. I've been watching some videos online which have been helpful. My cousin also left me with some tooling as well but it looks like I'll have to get a quick change tool post and a drill chuck and I will be pretty well set up. He had this from his grandpa and was only using it occasionally to polish parts and figured I could learn it and potentially make some knobs and little bits and whatnot. Gave it to me with the caveat that if I ever didn't want it I couldn't sell it - just give it back to him. I can live with that!
I'm stoked to have another metal working tool - now I just need to get proficient with it.
Pics or it didn't happen:
In doing all of this I had been picking my cousin's brain on a lot of things. He's a professional machinist and has been a lot of help in getting a better understanding of the tools and processes involved in all of this as well as help with layout basics. He's also a musician and plays guitar and bass in various bands and I've made him a number of pedals over the years.
A few weeks ago he let me know that he had a mini-lathe that he wanted to give me. He lives in Tucson, AZ but was coming to So. Cal over fathers day weekend and could drop it off. Awesome!
He left it at my dad's place which is about an hour away from me and then my dad brought it to me last night (he works a couple of miles from my house so it worked out pretty well).
I need to get a bench for it to sit on as well as a bench grinder and then I can begin learning to use it. I haven't used a lathe since high school shop class, and that was a wood lathe. I've been watching some videos online which have been helpful. My cousin also left me with some tooling as well but it looks like I'll have to get a quick change tool post and a drill chuck and I will be pretty well set up. He had this from his grandpa and was only using it occasionally to polish parts and figured I could learn it and potentially make some knobs and little bits and whatnot. Gave it to me with the caveat that if I ever didn't want it I couldn't sell it - just give it back to him. I can live with that!
I'm stoked to have another metal working tool - now I just need to get proficient with it.
Pics or it didn't happen: