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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 the tapa is really neat because the placement of the screws at the top lets you slap the corners to produce a higher pitched sound. The sound resonates though the cajon and comes out a 4" hole at the rear. The hardest part of the project was finding the 1/8" plywood for the tapa and I ended up ordering it from Pennsylvania. Side note: Two sheets of 15 X 30 plywood was $8 and the shipping was $17. All in a days work, right?
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