About to build my first ML. A Kibler Woodsrunner. To that end I've been reading and thinking a lot on the various processes.
So, rather than draw a file down the flats of the barrel. What if I took a pre-finished shelf, supported it perfectly flat and attached two or more sheets of a wet/dry sand paper of appropriate grit. Add a fine oil for a wetting agent and drew the barrel along this? I could also rig a fence to keep the barrel straight.
I do a similar thing with the shelf and sandpaper to sand and shape the leading edge of radio controlled model airplane wings up to 4 feet long. Works great for that and wondered about the barrel. I draw the work along the tool better than I draw the tool against the work.
Thoughts?
So, rather than draw a file down the flats of the barrel. What if I took a pre-finished shelf, supported it perfectly flat and attached two or more sheets of a wet/dry sand paper of appropriate grit. Add a fine oil for a wetting agent and drew the barrel along this? I could also rig a fence to keep the barrel straight.
I do a similar thing with the shelf and sandpaper to sand and shape the leading edge of radio controlled model airplane wings up to 4 feet long. Works great for that and wondered about the barrel. I draw the work along the tool better than I draw the tool against the work.
Thoughts?