wood lathe copying attachment

wrote: (clip) how many baseball bats that

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not as many as you will make by freehand turning after you get the hang of it.

Normally, I can make only 20 bats a day. I hope this machine can increase production and accuracy.

If you're making 20 a day, you need to go CNC.. lol

You have a market for all those bats?

mac

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Yes, 20 bats by freehand but the precission is not very good, that's why I try to search the lathe duplicator.

Do I have a market for all those bats? ----> I won't made those bats if there was no inquiry, I sell those bats for $8.50 to $22.50 each.

Luck for me, I live > >

Carry a bat.

Vega makes the best, at least in the USA, where you live ?????

I'm going to suggest a device (not of my invention) which might work for you...

You need to mount a dowel behind your bat blank, and parallel to it. On that dowel you have a number of fingers made from wood, wire, metal,..., whatever, which are free to rotate on the dowel but are fixed in position left to right. You adjust the length of each finger so that when you use a parting tool on the blank where that finger is, it will drop down when the blank is the right diameter.

So, now you mount the blank, get it round, then set the diameter at each finger with a parting tool. When that is done, you just need to connect the work you've already done.

I hope that is clearer than mud.

Bill

Bruce Barnett wrote:

I'd be worried about unhappy customers "returning" their product.. ;-]

mac

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No worried for them, they almost never come back. But there is always a new customer. That's why I'm looking for a duplicator.

Thanks

mac davis wrote:

I always compare the dimension of the blank vs the original bat per each inches, but the most difficult part to make them the same is on the knob and the barrel end side.

Bill Rubenstein wrote: I hope that is clearer than mud.

You can make a contour gauge out of plastic, brass, masonite, particle board, etc.

What kind of wood do you make them from?

As maple and ash are not the tropical tree, I make the bat from Schima walichii, and Eugenia.spp

That's greek to me. Or maybe latin. Can you post a picture on alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking (ABPW) ? We would love to see what the wood looks like.