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Topic: Builders - What are you using to mill parts? |
Nick Anderson
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Posted 18 Aug 2018 8:12 am |
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Asking to see what is being used.
Benchtop mills, large Brideports?
Thanks,
Nick |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 18 Aug 2018 11:18 am
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Someone may use a bench mill, but I would bet most use knee mills or machining centers like Mullen and Sierra.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Ross Shafer
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Petaluma, California
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Posted 18 Aug 2018 11:51 am
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You can see what I use for building Sierras here: https//goo.gl/Rfvcf5
I can't seem to make the link live....sorry but you'll have to cut and paste. Thanks Lane, but still no luck.
Search Ross Shafer, Sierra steel guitars, Makin' Chips on you tune and you'll get there.
Last edited by Ross Shafer on 18 Aug 2018 12:42 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 18 Aug 2018 12:35 pm
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| Ross Shafer wrote: |
You can see what I use for building Sierras here: https://goo.gl/Rfvcf5
I can't seem to make the link live....sorry but you'll have to cut and paste. |
Are you sure that hyphen belongs there? I bet that's what is breaking the linkability (edit: it wasn't just the the hyphen, although the hyphen did break it)
FOUND IT! Ross, try using this version of your url
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC-EM4eno5E3EaJN4l9LF7sA
Apparently, the forum doesn't like *.gl as a top-level domain, so anything in Greenland isn't a valid url. I wonder if Google paid Greenland to become its own tld, as I always thought it's a Danish colony/outpost/protectorate. So Google's shortcodes get broken by the forum until someone at phpBB fixes that.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects
Last edited by Lane Gray on 18 Aug 2018 6:43 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Nick Anderson
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IL
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Posted 18 Aug 2018 1:34 pm
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That's big equipment for big production! Awesome!
I'm thinking slightly smaller production. |
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Michael Maddex
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Northern New Mexico, USA
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Posted 18 Aug 2018 2:39 pm
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| Ross Shafer wrote: |
| You can see what I use for building Sierras here: https//goo.gl/Rfvcf5 |
The URL is lacking the colon following the ´https´. Try this:
https://goo.gl/Rfvcf5
BTW, Nice stuff. 
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Ross Shafer
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Petaluma, California
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Posted 18 Aug 2018 5:18 pm
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Thanks Lane and Michael.
Nick, find the videos of Ed Fulawka (R.I.P.) making steels. He used little more than some basic wood tools a router and some drill presses....and a whole lot of skill and determination. |
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Kevin Fix
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Michigan, USA
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Posted 18 Aug 2018 6:03 pm
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| I found Ed's videos of him on YouTube of him in his garage making those parts. Drill presses, routers. Nothing fancy. He sure built some nice guitars. They are in production again. I think the guy that is building them now may have worked for him. |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 18 Aug 2018 6:45 pm
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| Michael Maddex wrote: |
| Ross Shafer wrote: |
| You can see what I use for building Sierras here: https//goo.gl/Rfvcf5 |
The URL is lacking the colon following the ´https´. Try this:
https://goo.gl/Rfvcf5
BTW, Nice stuff. |
How in the world did I miss that!?!?
Good catch
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Godfrey Arthur
From:
3rd Rock
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Posted 18 Aug 2018 10:35 pm
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| Ross Shafer wrote: |
You can see what I use for building Sierras here: https//goo.gl/Rfvcf5
I can't seem to make the link live....sorry but you'll have to cut and paste. Thanks Lane, but still no luck.
Search Ross Shafer, Sierra steel guitars, Makin' Chips on you tune and you'll get there. |
Yeah for some reason using the URL feature on the forum for some links cancels the whole post unless you take off the url code. Thanks Lane for the colon tip.
Cool video on making pedals out of billet aluminum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPfhLrtI8BQ
Only head I saw was the one on the Pez dispenser. 
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 19 Aug 2018 11:40 am
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| Looks like an old Matsuura machining center. We had a couple of them where I worked, along with a ton of Fadals and old Bridgeports. Amazing, what those CNC machines can do. |
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Jim Eaton
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Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 19 Aug 2018 7:04 pm
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Sierra used "the Gibbs System" and later upgraded to "Virtualgibbs" software to program their mills when Don
still owned the company.
JE:-)>
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 20 Aug 2018 7:31 am
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Barry Thomas (Thomas Steel Guitars) had 4, or maybe 3, OLD Bridgeport CNC knee mills. Each one was set up for an operation. I worked for the Bridgeport distributor in the SF Bay Area, as service mgr., and we had one of the only technicians left that had knowledge, manuals, and parts for those old BOSS machines.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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