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Andre ROUSSEAU	08/03/2023 01:59:06
90 forum posts 1 photos	A little explored corner of engineering with much to teach.... https://youtu.be/8jN-a8nlBos https://youtu.be/gRAjeNi1yqw
Bazyle	08/03/2023 19:16:44
6956 forum posts 229 photos	Superb workshop. One of the members of EDMES was a professional recorder maker and needed his engineering skills (having been a machinist) to make the unique tooling required for his craft.
Jelly	08/03/2023 20:14:35
474 forum posts 103 photos	Posted by Bazyle on 08/03/2023 19:16:44: Superb workshop. One of the members of EDMES was a professional recorder maker and needed his engineering skills (having been a machinist) to make the unique tooling required for his craft. That seems to be quite common with instrument makers, it's so specialised you just can't buy the tools. A community organisation I have links to was bequeathed the contents of a woodwind instrument makers workshop which near enough doubled the size of their metalworking workshop, I think a lot of his specialist instrument making tools went to a college which still ran a diploma in instrument making, one of only a few in the country. I also helped a lad out a few years ago with rebuilding a Union Graduate and a Walking Pattern-Makers's lathe into metal spinning lathes, the former for roughing in the shape of steel pans before hammer-forming, and the latter for making cymbals. When he was done it was quite a sight to see him shaping 40" diameter custom cymbals, the sheer rotating mass of his wooden forms was enough to give me the heebie-jeebies.

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