H Leenah, Love the movie of the Polish or Czech cold working shop, to see REALLY heavy duty equipment at work, it's still amazing how fast those large diamond miter wheels cut. Any luck with setting up your antique lathe? I was VERY lucky that I picked up TWO Spatzier engraving lathes in Sweden for an amazing price ($1500 for BOTH) so I'm going to set one up to travel with and try to set the other one up for just stone wheel work and build a water recirculating system for it. Since I'm severely left-handed, trying to rivet copper wheels to traditional spindles is an abominable pain in the ass, so I had to buy a bunch of steel spindles, plus a starter set of diamond ones from Merker for my Czech lathe, now I have to do it all over again for my Spatzier, I can afford maybe 20 steel spindles made, but the set of diamond spindles is too pricey right now. You can get steel spindles for yours too I'm sure, and if you saw the orange wheel they used in the cold work room video, one had an orange wheel, those are Polpur wheels and are awesome for polishing engravings. After talking with Pavlina Cambalova at CMOG about creating an engravers specific set of them, they liked the idea, so you can pick up a whole set of nice polishing wheels from Polpur.cz as well as buying diamond wheels you can mount onto spindles with either a 3mm or 5mm screw end, all my diamond and copper wheels are now set up like that. Hope all is well, cheers....
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ReplyDeleteLove the movie of the Polish or Czech cold working shop, to see REALLY heavy duty equipment at work, it's still amazing how fast those large diamond miter wheels cut. Any luck with setting up your antique lathe? I was VERY lucky that I picked up TWO Spatzier engraving lathes in Sweden for an amazing price ($1500 for BOTH) so I'm going to set one up to travel with and try to set the other one up for just stone wheel work and build a water recirculating system for it. Since I'm severely left-handed, trying to rivet copper wheels to traditional spindles is an abominable pain in the ass, so I had to buy a bunch of steel spindles, plus a starter set of diamond ones from Merker for my Czech lathe, now I have to do it all over again for my Spatzier, I can afford maybe 20 steel spindles made, but the set of diamond spindles is too pricey right now. You can get steel spindles for yours too I'm sure, and if you saw the orange wheel they used in the cold work room video, one had an orange wheel, those are Polpur wheels and are awesome for polishing engravings. After talking with Pavlina Cambalova at CMOG about creating an engravers specific set of them, they liked the idea, so you can pick up a whole set of nice polishing wheels from Polpur.cz as well as buying diamond wheels you can mount onto spindles with either a 3mm or 5mm screw end, all my diamond and copper wheels are now set up like that. Hope all is well, cheers....
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