Wicked Edge custom rods/paddles
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Can’t wait to get this up and running!
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Wow, that’s impressive! And definitely heavy-duty. I also like your ideas for new paddles.
Hadn’t you made your own vise, too? By now then you’ve almost made your own WEPS 🙂 .
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Nice! If you go with a magnet you would be able swap out stones with just a few blanks.
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<p style=”text-align: center;”>Thanks guys! Any ideas on what material to use for the blocks? I think Tom and I were discussing ABS a while back…</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Wow, that’s impressive! And definitely heavy-duty. I also like your ideas for new paddles. Hadn’t you made your own vise, too? By now then you’ve almost made your own WEPS
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<p style=”text-align: center;”>Yeah ?ways tweaking for the next level of performance!</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Nice! If you go with a magnet you would be able swap out stones with just a few blanks.
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<p style=”text-align: center;”>Yeah I’m thinking I will still just have paddles with the current design – 2 grits per paddle. But I go through stones about 2 times a year or so it would save time just to pop off the used stone and stick the new one on with no adhesive issues hehe.
</p>Clay mentioned to me once that WE was considering a design with a single set of precision paddles with interchangeable stones. Â Maybe they’ll come around to selling the platens separately. Â That would surely reduce the cost of replacing stones.
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How do you guys say “Thank you”? Do I miss something obvious or am I forbidden to say this?
The mod should know this?! ;p jk. Next to the “quote” and “reply” buttons is a “thanks” button…see it?
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How stoked are you right about now? Â Thanks for sharing the jig design. Â That bore looked spot on when you showed the end view!
I had a local wood worker make me some blank paddles out of hard wood. Â I gave him the dimensions and bore diameter and impressed on him how important having the hole centered was. Â He gave me 4 sets of paddles that were unusable. Â Looks like he tried to drill it free hand while holding in the other. Â Booo
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If money was not an object and had access to a machine shop, I would use Delrin… easily machined and you would not need to add additional machining for bushings.
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Hi Josh: Â Lookin’ good! Â Using shims to compensate for differences in block dimensions is what drove me to using the VSTA’s, but your setup is clearly better for finding true centers. Â Maybe your buddy can come up with a jig to perfect the block dimensions too – then you wouldn’t have to change shims.
I think longer bushings would help to keep your bores more accurate – you can buy longer drill bits from McMaster so you wouldn’t have to drill from both ends. Â Certainly, the 0.375 bit will drill truer than the 0.250, making that more practical. Â I couldn’t get the 0.250″ to stay on true center for the full length.
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