Fun with my SS thickness sander

[shipwright]

Last week I re-sawed some Amaranth, Tulipwood, and Barberry with my SS bandsaw today I evened it all out with my SS drum sander. It wasn't far off but I cut it a little thick so I could do this and take out most of the saw marks while insuring equal thickness in all my veneers.
As a bonus I get some very fine dust from the Amaranth and Barberry. The Amaranth will be the background in my marquetry on this project and the dust will serve well in making the mastic to fill it. The Barberry dust will make a good bright yellow dye.

The attached album is the same one as I posted in the resawing post. It now has the sanding photos attached.



https://goo.gl/photos/uDXH9eVWKGKA1YfF9

[Lodgepole]

Wow! Nice job!

You have inspired me to try resawing!

[BuckeyeDennis]

I've never seen such bright purples and yellows in a piece of wood. But your veneers do remind me greatly of the school colors of my first alma mater. Please tell me that your next marquetry project is not a pair of Tennessee Tech cornhole boards!

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[shipwright]

I've never seen such bright purples and yellows in a piece of wood. But your veneers do remind me greatly of the school colors of my first alma mater. Please tell me that your next marquetry project is not a pair of Tennessee Tech cornhole boards!

OK Dennis, I will. My next marquetry project is not a pair of Tennessee Tech cornhole boards.

It will involve a representation of an 18th century table top by Jean François Oeben that now resides in the Getty Museum. The background for that marquetry is Amaranth (Purpleheart) and some of the flowers are in Barberry. The Tulipwood also shown is used in a border around the central motif. I am going to a lot of trouble to try to keep the materials as true to the original as I can.

[Dccarpenter]

Thanks for the post shipwright, that sander is awesome. I occasionally have need to do a lot of resawing at a time including occasional veneer and have emailed Sandflee to purchase there Shopsmith unit several times but never got a response. If you ever produce yours for sale I'll be first in line.

Have you done a lot of tuning to get your bandsaw cutting so nicely? I seemed to have mine in tune and was cranking out some great mahogany and pine pieces to use for repair work and it somehow got out of whack once I switched to white oak and a new blade, I've gone through some of the posts on here to get it back to cutting properly but I suppose I will need to tear the whole thing down and spend a day doing a true calibration to get it cutting straight again.

[shipwright]

Thanks for the post shipwright, that sander is awesome. I occasionally have need to do a lot of resawing at a time including occasional veneer and have emailed Sandflee to purchase there Shopsmith unit several times but never got a response. If you ever produce yours for sale I'll be first in line.

Have you done a lot of tuning to get your bandsaw cutting so nicely? I seemed to have mine in tune and was cranking out some great mahogany and pine pieces to use for repair work and it somehow got out of whack once I switched to white oak and a new blade, I've gone through some of the posts on here to get it back to cutting properly but I suppose I will need to tear the whole thing down and spend a day doing a true calibration to get it cutting straight again.

You're welcome. I won't be producing it but there is a build blog on it if you want to make your own. http://lumberjocks.com/shipwright/blog/series/4552

I didn't do anything at all to my bandsaw except make the drift-adjustable fence and buy a really good carbide blade for it. Because I was resawing some very hard wood I picked up a Lennox Trimaster blade. You can cut steel with it but it does do a nice job on 5" Purpleheart as well.