TAD TH4001 clone project

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Actually, from the woodworking point of view it’s not that hard to make. Granted that I have a shop and a 5hp 220v 3ph shaper. The expensive part would be a custom made knife for a shaper head. Due to the out rich of this knife it would be done on the specific type of shaper head that is if I am not mistaken called Colete head (I do have it just don’t remember the name). Then a couple of templates would give the external radius.
I am not at all saying that the work is not good, it’s just not impossible to do and other Diyers that are crazy about horns could have it done.
 
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R-Carpenter said:
Actually, from the woodworking point of view it’s not that hard to make. Granted that I have a shop and a 5hp 220v 3ph shaper. The expensive part would be a custom made knife for a shaper head.
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Beautiful work.
My guess is that it's turned (on a lathe), not cut with a shaper. Yielding 3 (maybe only 2) sections from a blank.
 
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MJL21193 said:


Beautiful work.
My guess is that it's turned (on a lathe), not cut with a shaper. Yielding 3 (maybe only 2) sections from a blank.
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See if you can find Yuichi Arai's old webpage as that had a lot of useful photo's and tips for building these. Mine were made by a LOT of hand sanding.
 
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I had swivel head one a few years ago that you easily turn a 24"blank on. It needs to be a fairly substantial unit, not the $150.00 local hardware store model.

Illustration below shows 3 from one 24" blank, with the maximum width of the part 21".
 

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http://www.vegawoodworking.com/laa.html

1446 is the one I have. It’s a heavy duty one and weights a lot. It’s limited to 23 on the paper so you could do 24-25inches. It would be a bit scary, spinning a heavy piece like this. All thou a laminated Baltic birch plywood, would insure uniformity in the spinning mass. I think a template would insure consistency of a shape.
I will repeat MJL and advise anyone from using a cheap home center lathe.
 
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R-Carpenter said:
Actually, from the woodworking point of view it’s not that hard to make. Granted that I have a shop and a 5hp 220v 3ph shaper. The expensive part would be a custom made knife for a shaper head. Due to the out rich of this knife it would be done on the specific type of shaper head that is if I am not mistaken called Colete head (I do have it just don’t remember the name). Then a couple of templates would give the external radius.
I am not at all saying that the work is not good, it’s just not impossible to do and other Diyers that are crazy about horns could have it done.
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I made mine By hand with an electric planer,Block plane And a sander 🙂 I dont have a workshop or i would be going mad on designs.
 
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