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When making my rolling pins, I use the thickness planer to bring the thin strips down to 1/8” thick. Unfortunately, if the grain in the wood is not uniform- or there are knots- the strips shatter. This wastes a lot of wood and doesn’t do the planer any good either. It seemed to me a thickness sander would be perfect for this process. Well, Craig’s List wasn’t producing any results and I couldn’t afford a new one. Time to take action! Starting with what seemed to me to be the most critical/difficult part; I began researching construction methods and gathering parts for the drum. The
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I don't know why I never thought of this, it's so common too, just another way to turn an existing tool into another. @Gene Howe. Does Shopsmith till make the sander for the lathe, I could not find it. OR
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My daughter teaches elementary school music and art and this year has been a challenging one. She has a blind student in one of her art classes and she also has a deaf child in her music class. The boy in her music class has cochlear implants and has very limited hearing so she has to sign to him. She came up with the idea of making a drum that he could sit on and "feel" the sound so she drafted me to help. The drum is called a cajon(pronounced cahone) and this one is made of 1/2" baltic birch plywood with a 1/4 baltic birch rear panel and an 1/8" tapa or skin. The screw configuration on
