nik
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Post by nik on Dec 7, 2019 5:31:03 GMT -5
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carver
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Post by carver on Mar 28, 2020 13:03:10 GMT -5
Could you confirm whether you got this and liked it? Is it really sintered? Check the link out and make sure its the same one still, if you look at the photo there is no "x" dimension making me think it is not sintered. I don't know all the lingo though. |
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nik
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Post by nik on Mar 28, 2020 15:22:22 GMT -5
Shipping was slow, but I'm a bit off the edge of the map in Guam. Aside from that, it is a great wheel, definitely sintered, 5mm diamond matrix depth. I'd say that it is probably closer to 150 grit than 110, but it cuts pretty aggressively. Over all, I really like the wheel, and would order one again, but probably won't wear this one out for many years.
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Post by nik on Mar 28, 2020 15:51:30 GMT -5
I have four other wheels from the same seller, all have been very good.
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carver
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Post by carver on Mar 29, 2020 0:49:36 GMT -5
Shipping was slow, but I'm a bit off the edge of the map in Guam. Aside from that, it is a great wheel, definitely sintered, 5mm diamond matrix depth. I'd say that it is probably closer to 150 grit than 110, but it cuts pretty aggressively. Over all, I really like the wheel, and would order one again, but probably won't wear this one out for many years. Awesome, thanks for the information. Interesting to see you are from Gaum. I was just staying at my friends house whose mom is from Gaum last weekend. I am from Honolulu so shipping will probably be similar. Do you have a suggestion on using something with such a large arbor hole. My arbor shaft on my carving station is only 1/2" so that is a full 3/4" bigger. Do you think one of those adapters could work given how much bigger that is? I've never seen wheel arbors that large before for the smaller carving wheels but I'm new to the carving aspect. I was going to make some pink ivory wood wheels for diamond grit as recommend by Henry Hunt in his book to go with this carving wheel. Do you recommend a different grit for carving before you got up to diamond grit wood/copper wheels? I always used 100 and 220 on my old machine before going up to the expandable drum silicon carbide but I'm certainly not an expert and have minimal experience carving. |
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nik
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Post by nik on Mar 29, 2020 18:06:41 GMT -5
Awesome, thanks for the information. Interesting to see you are from Gaum. I was just staying at my friends house whose mom is from Gaum last weekend. I am from Honolulu so shipping will probably be similar. Do you have a suggestion on using something with such a large arbor hole. My arbor shaft on my carving station is only 1/2" so that is a full 3/4" bigger. Do you think one of those adapters could work given how much bigger that is? I've never seen wheel arbors that large before for the smaller carving wheels but I'm new to the carving aspect. I was going to make some pink ivory wood wheels for diamond grit as recommend by Henry Hunt in his book to go with this carving wheel. Do you recommend a different grit for carving before you got up to diamond grit wood/copper wheels? I always used 100 and 220 on my old machine before going up to the expandable drum silicon carbide but I'm certainly not an expert and have minimal experience carving. I have not really done too much carving, I just had a few ideas rattling around in my head so I figured i'd try it out. The wheels from this source are not really lapidary specific, best I can figure, they are soviet industrial grinders. A few of the wheels that I have gotten are stamped CCCP, so that gives a bit of an idea of their age. I don't think that using a 1/2" arbor will be a problem, 34mm is a fairly common arbor size for industrial grinding wheels in the metric parts of the world, but the choices for a commercially available 1/2" to 34mm adapter bushing may be limited. I ended up making one from aluminum bar stock on the lathe. So unless you have access to a lathe, it would probably be best to find a machine shop to do it for you, then just use a pair of appropriately sized flange washers to clamp it in place. |
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