Thickness Sanding With The Luthier’s Friend
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
The Luthier’s Friend is an ingeniously designed, drill press mounted, thickness sander which has been designed to meet the demands of anyone building small scale projects. It can thickness and pattern sand wood up to 2-3/4″ tall, and is suitable for all crafts that require wooden parts carefully thicknessed or profile sanded to exacting tolerances.
The Luthier’s Friend attaches to your drill press table quickly and easily and can help save you valuable production time. It also comes with a dust extraction bracket to help save clean up time (and not to mention your lungs).
Luthiers, model makers, instrument makers , woodworkers, boat builders , home shop owners , architectural modelers, and anyone working on a small scale will find it useful. With the Luthier’s Friend it is possible to thickness wood down to precisely 0.010″, make duplicate parts using templates, and shape complex parts freehand. It sets up easily on the drill press and hangs on a nail when you are not using it. The dust collection is extremely efficient as well.
The Luthier’s Friend is relatively inexpensive and costs $159. Shipping is an additional $8.75, though shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada is extra. There is also Small Parts Vise that is available for $18. Shipping on this is $8.75.
For more information be sure to check out the Luthier’s Friend website at www.luthiersfriend.com.
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If you can’t afford the big bucks for a floor-standing pedestal machine you can always make your own at a reasonable cost from hardware store parts. All you need is a pair of pillow blocks, a 5/8″ or 3/4″ shaft and a slide on, set screw type mandrel for the buffing wheels. You could also buy a simple self-contained arbor unit, such as the one pictured, from some stores. The arbor or pillow blocks can then be mounted to a work bench or a separate free-standing pedestal if you have one lying around.
