JDarvall
8th November 2008, 10:59 AM
Thought someone here be interested in this....
I got mine recently in metric, and have become fond of it for copy work between centres.
Basically its a tool for sizing your work quickly without having to mess about with several regular calipers. Uno, how you may have a few setup, and it can be fiddly keeping track of which caliper goes where etc. Well, you can sidetrack all that, and just use his caliper.
You just press it into your work as you push your parting tool in and it gives you ongoing reading of the spindle size at that point. And just pull off when you hit the size you want. Go through all your sizes real quick, just refering off your sizes on your drawing.
A guy in the states came up with it. Peter Galbert. He's a top chairmaker. Came up with the idea from his own personal frustration with calipers. here....
http://www.petergalbertchairmaker.com/caliper.html
He's got videos in there I think, that probably describe it better.
Jake.
I got mine recently in metric, and have become fond of it for copy work between centres.
Basically its a tool for sizing your work quickly without having to mess about with several regular calipers. Uno, how you may have a few setup, and it can be fiddly keeping track of which caliper goes where etc. Well, you can sidetrack all that, and just use his caliper.
You just press it into your work as you push your parting tool in and it gives you ongoing reading of the spindle size at that point. And just pull off when you hit the size you want. Go through all your sizes real quick, just refering off your sizes on your drawing.
A guy in the states came up with it. Peter Galbert. He's a top chairmaker. Came up with the idea from his own personal frustration with calipers. here....
http://www.petergalbertchairmaker.com/caliper.html
He's got videos in there I think, that probably describe it better.
Jake.