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http://youtu.be/_Hp8Yb-t9Zs
I came across this video on the web last fall. Great video. Love watching the masters at work…
So I rescued one of the empty cores from the recycling. We must throw a half dozen of them a week in the recycling in my office. They are a hardened cardboard almost as hard as masonite with a wall thickness of 3/16ths. The black hubs are in the rolls of paper before they are loaded in a blueprint machine in order to protect the ends for shipping. They are a heavy plastic. The hole in the center of the hubs is a hair over 1".
Next I carefully cut the core to a 12" length. I could make three of these from a single core. Hubs test fitted.
The next step was the most difficult and it took me two tries to get it perfect. You have to drill a perfectly centered hole in the 1" hardwood dowel to accept a bolt with the head cut off. This bolt will go into the chuck of the drill. The bolt has to be perfectly centered or you will get the speed wobbles.
Next I glued everything up on the 1" dowel with epoxy. The handle is a short piece of 1 1/8" inside diameter pipe. So far I’ve got about $5 and 45 minutes invested in this tool. I will be giving the core several coats of acrylic sealer to protect it and give me a good surface to adhere the abrasive. Tomorrow my roll of 4.5" wide 80 grit sandpaper should arrive. My quick test for balance before I set it aside to dry felt great. This may be the most useful tool yet for me. I’ve been doing a lot of grom sized boards and the thing I’ve always struggled with is thinning out the deck side of these little boards.
Thank you Chuck Andrus and Fiberglass Hawaii for showing the way. As soon as I saw that video I knew I needed to put together a tool like that.
Nice!
very very cool!
After seeing that video I was noodling on how to make one too.
Aces electric rolling pin!
Lots of control needed to do that without making a big mess.
Project completed. Tested it out and it works as planned.
theres actually an attachmentyou can by for a drill, one is the grizzly h2882. costs $80 though.
Nicely done! The larger store-bought ones get expensive fast.
Man!.. get some cheap bearings… don’t waste the Redz!
I’m just seeing this thread… here’s my version… I have one made out of 2" pvc pipe, all thread, 1/2 PVC for the handle…with ball bearings pressed into the1/2 PVC handle. 1/2 cap is to protect your hand from spinning nut. Grip on PVC is 3M gripping material #TB641, it’s a soft energy absorbing tape for power tools. Filled end of 2" PVC with hole saw cut outs from a door lock kit, glued them into place with epoxy.
I had most of the stuff laying around the house, except for the bearings and all thread. Cost was $4.00
