FoxMitchell Posted August 10, 2017 Report Posted August 10, 2017 Continuing on the trend of making highly specialized luthier tools with whatever I have lying around, I made a thickness gauge! It's a piece of oak, cut in the shape of a lyre because I wanted it to be more than just a plain [ bracket shape (and the whole thing with Apollo's lyre and god of music and all that, it's symbolic as well as practical), with a cheap but accurate digital caliper I had, some brass screws, rubber band, and a couple of burnt LEDs for the tips! I considered putting a little lever on it but it's really easy to raise the measuring bit the way it is with a thumb or just pulling on it so I think I'll just leave it as it is, since it's working just fine.
carl1961 Posted August 10, 2017 Report Posted August 10, 2017 Very nice, well done FoxMitchell, that will work just as good or better than those 100.00 ones. I made a couple also, not so nice looking though LOL. You can get those calipers with fractions too. your wood frame makes the caliper nice and lighter. last picture is a caliper I got to do another, you frame looks like to be my next calipers
FoxMitchell Posted August 10, 2017 Author Report Posted August 10, 2017 Thanks folks! 42 minutes ago, carl1961 said: Very nice, well done FoxMitchell, that will work just as good or better than those 100.00 ones. I made a couple also, not so nice looking though LOL. You can get those calipers with fractions too. your wood frame makes the caliper nice and lighter. last picture is a caliper I got to do another, you frame looks like to be my next calipers Those look cool! OoOh the clamp, I didn't even think about using a clamp like that. That's brilliant re-purposing!
Peter K-G Posted August 17, 2017 Report Posted August 17, 2017 Poor man's home made (1997) vs. new: Still working perfectly, opens by own weight of the letter opener.
FoxMitchell Posted August 17, 2017 Author Report Posted August 17, 2017 3 hours ago, Peter K-G said: Poor man's home made (1997) vs. new: Still working perfectly, opens by own weight of the letter opener. That's so neat!
Domica Posted August 18, 2017 Report Posted August 18, 2017 18 hours ago, Peter K-G said: Poor man's home made (1997) vs. new: Still working perfectly, opens by own weight of the letter opener. It is really cool!
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