Subject: Re: baidarka FW: Aleut Paddle
From: jaco0253@jaco0253.email.umn.edu (jaco0253@gold.tc.umn.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 21:48:12 EST
I haven't tried this but have been following this thread. Some of the
better wood working catalogs (Lee Valley Tools, Garrett Wade, etc.) sell
scooping tools ('scorps') used to hollow out chair seats, etc. on a pull
stroke. Sort of like a ladle with a sharpened edge and a hole in the
bottom.
Could these grooves or hollows be carved out with a 4 inch disk
sander/grinder, using the edge of the disk on an angle (like cutting coves
on a table saw)?
Oooh, I hate to recommend this to anybody. It is a special cutter I built
up myself with the help of a machine shop (the cutter alone was nearly
$500). Tricky, expensive, dangerous as hell. A panel cutter won't do it.
This is more like a 2" high cove cutter with a long straight side set at 8
degrees. If you really want to go there, I will send you some photos after
I come back from Alaska. You will need a pretty health shaper for this,
at least 2 hp. I am using a 220v Grizzly. Ask me again next year!
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