Tuning pin drilling?

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Wed Sep 5 21:53:03 MDT 2007



> My criteria for choosing full thickness Delignit is that as a high end woodworker, 
> I have been responsible for chopping up way more old growth lumber than I would have liked.
> Not only that, but quarter sawn lumber is a really inefficient use of the logs board footage.
> If there is no other choice I will relunctantly use the old growth, but when, as in the case of 
> Delignit, an engineered substance exists, I really would prefer to use it instead.  

Be advised then, that the multilam maple blocks are rotary cut.


> Yes, its unforgiving.  That's why I've tried to design a drilling process that resembles more
> what a machinist would do, rather than what a woodworker would do. 

Likewise, and doing the composite of both gives the firm 
support of Delignit at the top, and the forgiveness of the 
multilam underneath. I think it's considerably better than 
either alone.


> Its also why I chose not to drill in the piano, which from all other angles is more efficient than
> drilling on the bench. 
> 
> Jim I

You lost me there. Explain please?
Ron N


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