new chair devil

I love these things

Ron in Kokomo

>Looks great!

I am getting ready to make some chairs. I think I'll do some Appalachian comfort adjusted ladderbacks

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Skip in Falls Church

>Hi John,

Looks nice! I just got my Pop WW and there's an article on making chair devils in it as well.

Skip

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paul womack

>so I'll have to dig around online for the ol' S30 instructions.

There's a firmware upgrade for your camera:

Canon main S30 site

If you click on "components" in the Product Information menu, you get a manual, although it's not convenient to download or print.

here's manual focus, for example

this guy is pushing his S30 pretty hard

BugBear

Heres some old ones

Todd Hughes

>Picked these and a couple more all made by the same old time guy a few years ago in a box lot for a couple bucks. Never used them but I did used to use a couple smaller [and nicer made] ones alot when I made axe handles. Really one of those tools that are simple to use [or make] and works great ....Todd

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Greg Betit Vergennes, VT.

>Hi John,

What diameter did you make this one? I was thinking that it would be nice to have one smaller than the 7/8" Ralston, and the 5/8" one I made from the plans in Drew Langsner's book. Does it improve your spindle output? Do you see a marked advantage having a smaller diameter compared to the Ralston?

Greg

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john jesseph

>Thanks for the links, I'll try and mess around with it and see how much better I can do! the problem is probably compounded by the fact I don't have decent photo editing software...

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john jesseph

>Thanks for sharing the pic. Simple, work great, hardly any reason not to make a few if you have any use for them. I may stop at the bookstore and pick up that pop. ww magazine, although I don't have a big reason to do anything different if a make one or two more...

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paul womack

>I'll try and mess around with it and see how much better I can do!

Here's my recommendations:

Normally auto-focus is pretty good. I very rarely use manual focus.

Take your camera, mount it on a tripod, and point it at your victim, zoomed to suit. Longer zoom length give less shape distortion than close up. Around 70-100 mm (35mm equivalent) work well.

Set the camera to 2-second self timer

In the creative zone of your dial, set to Av (aperture priority)

Set the aperture using the multicontroller to narrow - F8, so as to achieve maximum sharpness and depth of field.

Press the shutter, and remove your hand; this minimises any camera shake, which would be a problem, since we're using a zoom and a long(ish) exposure.

2 Seconds later you should have a pretty good photo.

BugBear

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paul womack

>I wrote this in another thread:

http://www.woodcentral.com/cgi-bin/handtools.pl?read=77098

BugBear

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john jesseph

>Hi Greg, I think my new one is 1/2 inch. I don't know if a smaller size would be better, but I may might make several sizes. I think the Ralston is not bad for the bigger part of spindles with swelling, but it is nice to have a much smaller one for the thin part. I bought the popular ww magazine today and read the article on devil making. Nothing you can't get from the Langsner book, and at 1 and 1/8 inches, a really big radius- maybe good for ladderback chairs, not so good for windsor spindles.

Out to the shop to shave some spindles...

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john jesseph

>Thanks for the information, very helpful. Must be painful to see my bad snapshots, but it's getting better!!

final thought

john jesseph

>This thread is buried, but I just thought this morning that a very large radius scraper like the ones Todd posted would be useful also. Greg, I don't know if you picked this up from Dave Sawyer, but he puts a bit of a radius on the front of his bows with a scraper sort of like one of those. That will be my next size I think...