> Hi Jurgen, > I had a guillotine cutter some time back, but seem to have lost it > some years ago. It seemed to perform so-so. I like your design. What > kind of a blade do you have on this? I use a fairly standard utility knife blade, which lasts for months. I like that is is rigid and strong. Sometimes I miss having a longer blade. Perhaps on my next model I will try the break-away blades > Also, it looks like there would be some wiggle to your blade arm here > - what keeps it striking/cutting in exactly the same spot? For one thing, the arm fits snug into its bracket. The arm pivots on a bolt and by adjusting the tightness of the nut I can get the ideal balance of friction and guidance. The nut is tight enough that the arm stays up in the air when it is lifted. As well, operation procedure comes into play as well for repetitive precision. I do not push the arm down as you would use a paper cutter. I raise the arm, adjust the material I am cutting, bring the arm down to where it touches the material. Then I give the back of the arm a quick, light whack with the palm of my heel. > Is the white stuff a replaceable chopping surface? Polyethylene-type > plastic stuff? Yes, HDPE (high density poly-ethylene). Simply a piece of kitchen cutting board. 3/8" thick > How tall is your stop block? About 5/8" > How wide is the blade? 2" > Any other close-up pictures available? Here are some pieces of tri-chord damper felt I whacked off to show what this cutter will do. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2046 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070824/28480697/attachment.bin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Guillotine-01.a.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 13516 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070824/28480697/attachment.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A few details: - the blade extends past the line of the fence, to get a clean cut. The fence is notched to accommodate the blade tip - the fence is rabetted so that the cutting board material fits fairly tightly underneath, about 1/4 " This keeps the cutting board from sliding all around. The cutting board material is sacrificial of course, so I don't want it to be permanently attached to the base. But I do want to be able to slide the cutting board to snug it up to the stop block when I adjust cut width of my cut. > > Better yet and easier for you, just send me the darn jig! ;-) Trade you for ... let's see here ...... a soundboard? (if you never ask, you will never get what you want...) ;^ 0 > > Thanks. > > Terry Farrell Jurgen Goering Piano Forte Supply (250) 754-2440 info at pianofortesupply.com http://www.pianofortesupply.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1113 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070824/28480697/attachment-0001.bin
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