Mahan Woodwinds, Commercial Post for April

[Wanderer]

Well, as many of you know, I'm moving soon.

I was hoping to make up a few whistles and offer them at a discount in kind of a "tax return sale".

Unfortunately, I lost a screw off of the carriage of my lathe, and it evidently got swept away in wood chips, and lost. It's an important screw, one that helps hold the carriage firmly to the bed and prevent chatter.

So, instead, I'm announcing that I can't take any orders this month for whistles, because by the time the replacement screw comes in, I'll probably be in the thick of moving.

Maybe I can do it next month as a celebration for being in the new location or something!

[King Friday]

I'm having so much fun with your Stonehenge, I hate to have to mail it on this weekend.

[Wanderer]

I'm having so much fun with your Stonehenge, I hate to have to mail it on this weekend.

Well, there IS a solution to that, you know...

[brewerpaul]

Man, machine hassles always pop up at the wrong time. Good luck with it!
BTW-- what type of lathe setup do you use?

[Wanderer]

Man, machine hassles always pop up at the wrong time. Good luck with it!
BTW-- what type of lathe setup do you use?

I use a 40" harbor freight wood lathe for my gundrilling rig. I've already had the switch on this burn out on me once and had to replace it. Luckily, the people waiting for whistles were kind.

I use a micro-mark 7x14" lathe for turning the drilled wood into tubes...but grizzly, micro-mark and a couple other places all get their mini-lathes from the same company in china, so the only real difference in most of them is price.

It's barely big enough. If I had to do it over again, I'd have gotten a 16" lathe to give me a couple inches to spare. There's no way I can make C whistles on this setup without first developing tunable whistles. I'm still not sure how I'm going to do the mortise/tenon joint for tunables...maybe get a reamer made that's slightly larger than .5" so that I can slip brass tubing into the whistle body without it changing the dimensions of the bore. Once I figure out who makes reamers

[Daniel_Bingamon]

I know what you mean, I'm waiting for the circuit board on my mini mill to be repaired.

[anniemcu]

I'm having so much fun with your Stonehenge, I hate to have to mail it on this weekend.

Hey! I had to send it on! You have to send it on! C'mon... you can do it....

[Wanderer]

I'm having so much fun with your Stonehenge, I hate to have to mail it on this weekend.

Hey! I had to send it on! You have to send it on! C'mon... you can do it....

He can keep it...as long as www.paypal.com gives me good news

[anniemcu]

I'm having so much fun with your Stonehenge, I hate to have to mail it on this weekend.

Hey! I had to send it on! You have to send it on! C'mon... you can do it....

He can keep it...as long as www.paypal.com gives me good news

Yeah... there's that! I curse the moths in my wallet!

[talasiga]

I very much doubt that your first post is a COMMERCIAL post.
I doubt the commericiality of this topic.
I reckon this more a convivial topic fit for a pub.

I challenge anybaddy to demonstrate how this is a commercial topic.

[Wanderer]

Commercial: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of commerce.

Commerce: an interchange of goods or commodities

pertaining to: to have reference or relation; relate

So, to be commercial, it would have to somehow relate to interchanging goods or commodities.

I can't take any orders this month for whistles

hmm..

[talasiga]

.........
So, to be commercial, it would have to somehow relate to interchanging goods or commodities.

I can't take any orders this month for whistles

hmm..

Hmmm .... so I am left wandering -
"What can I interchange for something that cannot be taken or given?"