Rim, no finish applied yet, lathe polished
RBuddy Says:
Saturday, August 16, 2008 @10:55:19 AM
I got a couple hundred BF of this old walnut a couple years back. It has the nicest purple hew to it. These rim shots are of the unfinished rim hot off the lathe. The wood is simply lathe polished as the grit on the sandpaper wears away.
scottc Says:
Sunday, August 17, 2008 @10:29:30 AM
That's a great looking rim...I love the look of walnut.
Scott
foxfireguitar Says:
Monday, August 18, 2008 @8:57:19 PM
Yes great look the walnut has good eye appeal. How does the type of wood effect the sound?
RBuddy Says:
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 @5:42:55 AM
This rim is for a walnut banjo - neck will be walnut too - I expect the tone to be a little deeper than maple being a little less dense. This rim has a very hard ring going under the tone ring and an ebony rim cap so they should also influence tone in the brighter direction. Never know for sure until you string it up, part of the fun.
l.r.john Says:
Sunday, August 26, 2012 @4:53:53 PM
How do you go from rough stack lam to such a beautiful perfectly turned rim. Are you using the oneway pie set up on your lathe as in your other photograph?
Larry (PS I hope it's ok to pick your brain)
RBuddy Says:
Sunday, August 26, 2012 @8:49:22 PM
Larry, thanks for the compliments. I often mix woods in my rims and usually include the wood that will make up the ring in contact with the tone ring in the original stack. Then turn it to my specifications on the rig you mentioned in another shop picture. I usually decide on the bottom rim cap later and cut the pieces and glue them to the rim then turn that to match the rim.
I use metal lathe cutting tools I grind to match the job. Sharpening when the sound from the cutter tells me to. I hone the cutting edges with a fine flat stone and touch them up between grindings that way too. I'm slow but patient. Stuff on the lathe is so easy to bring to a polish. I usually back sandpaper with a thick piece of stiff leather to keep it "flat" while sanding. Really nothing special, anyone can do it as well or better than I do.
Actually now I cut the rough inside radius to my blocks before glue up and then cut the outside of each ring round to save lathe time. Leaving an eighth to a quarter inch extra for the lathe.
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