En langzaam wordt ook de voorlopig laatste pagina - bouwwijze - ingevuld. Nu nog met alleen tekst, en niet in de definitieve layout; maar binnenkort komen er ook foto’s bij van de verschillende stappen in het bouwproces. Ik hoop dat deze site vooral wat algemene misvattingen over splitcane, zijn eigenschappen, vermeende kwetsbaarheid en traagheid, en bijvoorbeeld het foutieve beeld dat ‘splijten’ beter zou zijn dan ‘zagen’, kan wegnemen.
Some time ago I showed my hollowing jig for (female) bamboo ferrules. That version consisted of a small slab of wood with a groove, the depth of which defines the resultant wall thickness, and a spokeshave to remove material from the inside of a strip, down to the desired wall thickness. While functional, that small jig wasn't completely satisfactory, for a number of reasons. In addition, the (unmodified) spokeshaves were less than totally satisfactory, as they kept digging into the surface of the jig when reaching the final wall thickness. So I updated my hollowing jig, making it from a large, heavy slab of well seasoned European oak (from a 50 year old discarded table, sawn to length and planed to thickness (using a large workshop jointer and a lunchbox thickness planer). I made a number of grooves with a plunge router, of different depth (wall thickness) - on one side for general hollowing (wall thicknesses roughly between 2 and 3 mm), and for female ferrule hollowing on the ot...
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