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Workshop Tour
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Workshop Tour
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| Isn’t this the most beautiful mess? This is where I spend the majority of my time while working. Woodwind repair is 90% gluing pads and corks, and looking for leaks. I would be lost without my acetylene torch, and leak lights. One of my favorite tools is the little red lathe, which makes tone hole inserts and cutters, and cuts new rods and screws. |
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| In the corner opposite my workbench is my reed-making desk. I usually have it half covered with gouging machines, which I am setting up, or repairing. |
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| One half of my garage has been converted into a machine shop. Against the back wall sits "lathezilla," my 1300 lb. metal lathe. The other green machine to the left is my milling machine. With these 2 tools, I can replace broken tenons, make and insert tone hole bushings, make bore or tone hole reamers, and machine gouger parts. |
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| On the opposite side of my garage workshop is a drill press, which comes in handy for it’s tilting table, a feature not found on my mill. Behind the drill press, on the floor, half hidden, is a band saw for rough cutting gouger parts, or any larger work pieces, before machine finishing. On the workbench is a small arbor press, for installing new bushings in gougers. The bench grinder gets used for shaping lathe cutters, and rough sharpening of tools. |
