Sanding asymmetrical handles

Re: Sanding asymmetrical handles

John C Lucas

Go.to.Klingspor and look at their various floppy sandding discs. Probably one of these on the lathe or drill press and hand hold the handles.

Re: Sanding asymmetrical handles

Barry Irby

A friend of mine made tool handles from the end of WWII until his death. He and his workers hand sanded tens of thousands of "striking" tool handles on belt sanders. Near the end he started to switch to patterning sanders. It worked like a copy lathe. There is a drum about 2" in diameter with a belt running around it and a steel pattern on a holder locked to the roughed out piece held like it was on the lathe. The pattern and piece rotate together and a steel finger on the sander follows the steel pattern and the drum follows the finger. Exactly like a copying lathe except the 'cutter" is sand paper.

He did not invent the machine but bought one and then improved on it. See what the handle industry is doing today.

Depends

Dick Coers

How many parts per day? How many grits needed? What size? What species? Need to be sanded with the grain after rough sanding? More information would be helpful.

Re: Depends

Skip Beardsley

It will be a full time job for one person. Several hundred pieces during the remainder on this year. Five thousand or more next year.

Thanks for your interest.

Skip

100 a week?

Dick Coers

Not sure that is full time work. On a copy lathe, you should be able to make that many in one or two days. But, still no idea what the heck he will be making and how well it needs to be sanded.