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What kind of steel are they made from?
These cut bi-directionally on the corners? From the pic it's tough to tell.
If on the corners, you've accounted, in your design, for the bore profile being cut on the far corners of the hypotenuse?

This is sad news. I saw Joe & Antoinette @ McCabe's in Santa Monica years ago.
What a lovely harp player & singer. I always especially enjoyed "The Gartan Mother's Lullaby", when she sang it.
My condolences to the family.

Good spot, Rory!
Here's an image from ArPa's website. Color & trim of the mill match, and block wall with a compressed air line running horizontally along it at the same height, match in both photos.
It's ArPa's Lagun machining center.

I remember seeing this picture posted on C&F around the time of Alain Froment's passing.
I don't know the story behind it, and the NPU URL no longer works, but it clearly shows a CNC mill & lathe in the background.

I admit, I know nothing about CNC machines but would something like this be any good? http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-CNC-Lathe-12x36-Turning-Machine-/320895564817?pt=BI_Lathes&hash=item4ab6ddbc11 Tom, it appears to be a Chinese lathe with a retrofit control & stepper motors. It seems to be bui...

Ah, Bill...I take your silence on this board as tacit agreement with me on the Pakistani issue.
Unwrinkle your skirt & come back. These kids aren't any fun to fight with.

That's a cute little lathe! It looks like it's sold standard in chucker configuration, Bill. I don't see a tailstock either, but one is listed in Boxford accessories. Looks like the way cover would have to be removed in order to jury-rig one. As Bill & Chris have pointed out, center distance is ...

Nice work, Tim!

FWIW, I thought it was very creative & funny. Thanks for posting it!

D & B chanter dimensions generously provided by Bruce Childress (bcpipes) here:

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... ht=#138038

Cool nick!

Pascal wrote: Has anyone tried one of those pipes : Practice set Practice set Half set To Hobgoblin's credit, ad #3 clearly says that they're Pakistani pipes. I bought an identical half set from Bagpipes Galore 8 years ago because I was lied to & told they were Scottish made. Bores are not that ...

Davy, any info on the screw-on mounts? Similar in design to modern GHB threaded mounts??? I've heard before that longevity could be a problem, due to the slightly greater clearance compared to glued mounts, but these seem to have lasted 240 years.

Nice snag! :thumbsup: Those guys on the CNC Zone forum have been converting everything but their grandma's shopping carts, (routers, plasma cutters, lathes, mills), with rolled ballscrews, steppers or servos, and PC based controls. That'd really be the best place to start. SolidWorks should do ya fi...

restraint...restraint..arrrrrrrrgh, must resist urge to stand on soap box... too late! :lol: Those small desk & benchtop machines look cute, but more often than not they don't use industry standard Fanuc G code...which may be why they're using operator interfaced conversational programming. This...

PJ wrote: Here's an interesting article on the Irish Celt question. Sorry, PJ...but after reading that article my impression is that it's nothing but politically motivated bad science forwarding a sectarian agenda. That same author (Richard Warner - Ulster Museum Keeper of Antiquities) also wrote: ...